Netflix Enrages Subscribers By Limiting DVD Queue
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Converting to a streaming-only business isn’t easy, as Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) discovered Monday when the company’s blog was bombarded by compl… Read more »
For Netflix And Lovefilm, Online Choice Pales Against DVD Business
Reality check: The prospect of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Lovefilm becoming online-first subscription businesses looks a long way off – they h… Read more »
@ CES: Could Ye Olde DVD Actually Help Digital Distribution?
While zillions of new products come to CES in hopes of getting noticed, sometimes it’s the technology still in development that captures the… Read more »
New iTunes Features Aim To Outdo DVD
Some of the coolest so-called “extras” embedded only on the iTunes’ version of several recent film releases from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures a… Read more »
‘Hurt Locker’ Studio Copyright Czar Calls For End To Screeners
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UPDATED: The top piracy watchdog at Summit Entertainment called on Hollywood to stop using screeners, the DVDs that are used in postproducti… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.06.10
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) is looking at a major restructuring that could include the jettisoning of its revenue-generating dial-up busine… Read more »
Why Netflix Won’t Get What It Wants Most For Christmas
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Blame it on the holiday season, when kids make overly ambitious lists of all the gifts they want for Christmas. But if it’s true that Netfli… Read more »
Can YouTube Yield Another Star In Ryan Higa?
That Ryan Higa has drawn over 3.6 million views to his latest YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) creation isn’t surprising; his videos routinely amass cab… Read more »
‘Jackass 3.5′ Blazes Distinctive Path To Digital Platforms
When you’re a mega-successful film franchise, doing something unique in digital distribution is typically besides the point. But nobody told… Read more »
Disney Rethinks Role Of Keychest In Film Distribution
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Disney (NYSE: DIS) has changed the locks on Keychest, the digital-rights-locker strategy that began drawing attention a year ago as a potent… Read more »
New Eye-Popping Netflix Growth Stats
If you aren’t impressed enough yet by Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), the good folks at research firm Screen Digest shared some subscriber-only analyt… Read more »
DreamWorks’ Stacey Snider Feels The “Pressure” of Premium VOD
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First it was Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s Jeff Bewkes last week, then Fox Filmed Entertainment’s Peter Levinsohn yesterday. Today’s high-powere… Read more »
Guess What: Netflix Is Now Primarily A Digital Video Company
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) announced its Q3 2010 earnings a few weeks back and the numbers were every bit as positive as people have expected. The… Read more »
Digital Home: Netflix Balances The Benefits And Costs Of Broadband
It’s taken several more years for broadband penetration to get to the level Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) had expected, but now that it has, it’s bee… Read more »
How Hollywood Will Squeeze Netflix
It seems the studios have figured out one way to ease the pain of declining DVD revenues: putting the screws to Netflix. Read more »
Vudu Flexes Its Wal-Mart Ties With ‘Toy Story 3′ Promotion
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Ever since it purchased online streaming movie service Vudu earlier this year, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) hasn’t done much to acknowledge its new… Read more »
Taking Lovefilm’s Pulse: Company Snapshot As DVDs Become Downloads
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With M&A murmurs still bubbling and the great IPTV opportunity beckoning, DVD and online movie service Lovefilm is one of the more interesti… Read more »
Netflix: Instant-Streaming Only Option May Debut In U.S. Later This Quarter
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) may begin to offer an instant-streaming only option in the U.S. as soon as later this quarter. The company debuted an i… Read more »
Netflix Agrees To Delay New Releases From Sony
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will hold off on renting new Sony (NYSE: SNE) releases until 28 days after the DVDs are first available for purchase in… Read more »
RealNetworks Launches A New RealPlayer Focused On Mobile First
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Today, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has relaunched one of its oldies, but goodies: The RealPlayer.
The new media player is in line with the S… Read more »
Updated: Netflix And NBCU Strike Broader Streaming Deal
Starting next week, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) users will have the choice to stream any episode from the past 35 years of Saturday Night Live as p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.23.10
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» Back in April, when John Cook quit his post as investigations editor at Gawker to join Yahoo’s news site The Upshot, Nick Dento… Read more »
Blockbuster Bankruptcy Shoe Finally Drops; Nearly $1 Billion In Debt
Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) ended the speculation today, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy nearly 25 years after the video rental chain opened it… Read more »
Blockbuster Reportedly About To File For Bankruptcy
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Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), which had warned for months that it might have to declare bankruptcy, is expected to file for Chapter 11 later this… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.21.10
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» TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and many other tech companies are racing to… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.27.10
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» Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is warning Hollywood movie studios about something they likely expected all along: the company is prepa… Read more »
Netflix Adds iPhone, iPod Touch Apps
It’s kind of anti-climactic at this point, but Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has extended its rental service to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, four m… Read more »
LoveFilm Adds MGM Movie Library; Aims To Be More Than ‘Europe’s Netflix’
LoveFilm, which is often regarded as the “Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) of the Europe,” has struck a major deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that… Read more »
Blockbuster Bankruptcy Fears Grow
Despite its advantage over rivals Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox in offering new releases for rent, Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) continued to st… Read more »
Disney’s Iger: Getting Aggressive On ‘Premium’ DVD Rental Window, Pricing
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With this morning’s announcement of an estimated $1 billion streaming movie deal between Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Epix in the minds of analy… Read more »
Epix Deal Expands Netflix Streaming Library; New DVD Sales Still Protected
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Epix have made their “multi-year” movie streaming deal official and to be sure, the threat is more towards other pa… Read more »
Viacom Profits Surge, But Home Entertainment Revenues Stumble
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Viacom (NYSE: VIA) showed the true benefits of having the dual revenue streams of advertising and cable, as its networks division, which inc… Read more »
Bewkes: Rental Delays From Netflix, RedBox Is Paying Off For DVD Sales
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Early agreements from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox to delay renting new titles until 28 days after they are first available for purchase… Read more »
Blockbuster Touts New Release Advantage Over Netflix, Redbox In New TV Ad
Judging from the jump Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) just reported in subscribers, the fact that the service is no longer carrying new releases from m… Read more »
Paramount Bucks Trend; Will Provide Redbox With New Releases On Day Of Sale
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Viacom’s Paramount Home Entertainment will provide Redbox with its new releases on the same day they go on sale, under a long-term agreement… Read more »
Video Codec Firm DivX Being Bought By Sonic Solutions for $323 Million
Someone finally cares enough for Divx. Sonic Solutions, the digital media solutions firm and owner of CinemaNow online movie service, has an… Read more »
Best Buy’s Digital Movie Service Launches Under CinemaNow Name
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Best Buy’s long-awaited entry to the online video download market is here. Best Buy said last June that under an agreement with Sonic Soluti… Read more »
Blockbuster Swings To Loss As Sales Plunge
While Blockbuster could benefit from the closure of rival video rental chain Movie Gallery, it got no relief in Q1, as the company swung to… Read more »
It’s A Wrap: Movie Gallery To Close All U.S. Locations
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A milestone in the transition to alternate video rental models: Movie Gallery, the second largest video rental chain in the U.S., is closing… Read more »
Redbox Ends Legal Wrangling With Fox, Universal; Agrees To 28-Day Window
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It took a couple of extra months but Fox and Universal have agreed to roughly the same deal with DVD rental kiosk company Redbox as Warner B… Read more »
