What To Expect From Netflix Today
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will report its Q4 ’11 earnings later today, but whereas I’ve taken stands in past quarters about subscriber acquisitio… Read more »
Analyst To Studios: It’s Time To Force Early VOD On Theater Chains
With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, B… Read more »
New Video, Cinedigm Form Digital Film Distribution Alliance
The struggling independent film sector believes it has stumbled onto an effective release strategy, combining various forms of online and ca… Read more »
Forget SOPA: Hollywood And Silicon Valley Make Up At Sundance
The legislative battle over SOPA highlights the cultural rift between Hollywood and Silicon Valley but one place where the two tribes seem t… Read more »
Cuban Teams With Seacrest, AEG To Relaunch HDNet as 'ESPN For Pop Culture'
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Struggling for leverage with cable distributors as the operator of an independent network, Mark Cuban may have found a way forward for one o… Read more »
Interactive TV Advertising: Not Huge Now, Will This Be The Year It Grows?
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Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more »
Hulu Plus Claims More Than 1.5 Million Subs; Commits $500 Million To Content In 2012
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium v… Read more »
Challenges Ahead Before 2012 Is The Year Of Connected TV
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Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that. Read more »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more »
YouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months
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The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($… Read more »
Can Tom Hanks Really Deliver The 'Comic-Con Crowd' For Yahoo?
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Looking to ramp up star power for a push into original video content, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) formally announced Monday that it’s teaming with ac… Read more »
Interview Part 2: Netflix's Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent the company has emerged from the “pain” of a consumer and investor backlash, after… Read more »
Interview Part 1: Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more »
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon's Lovefilm
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more »
Connected TV: BBC News On Sony, Absolute On Samsung, PlayJam Adds Games
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Content owners are upping their roll-out on to connected TVs, which represent a great new distribution opportunity. Here are some of the lat… Read more »
News Corp's Shine Buying Web Video Producer ChannelFlip
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News Corp.’s newly-owned Shine Group is acquiring ChannelFlip, an independent online TV and video producer that has successfully developed b… Read more »
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more »
Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth a… Read more »
Disney, Comcast And Why TV Everywhere Alone Is Not Enough
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Yesterday’s press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement… Read more »
Netflix's 2 Billion Streaming Hours In Q4 Blows Away Competitors
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers appear to be spending far more time viewing the service’s streaming content than do users of any other onli… Read more »
Premier League Rights: Google And Apple Unlikely To Bid
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News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost ce… Read more »
EU To Focus On Digital Content Policy In 2012
The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”. Read more »
Online Video Sales Growing In China
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Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more »
Report: In Europe, Not All Windows Open For Netflix
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Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri… Read more »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
'Time Shifting' Is Replacing 'Real Time'
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Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. Th… Read more »
BBC iPlayer App's iPhone Update Adds 500K New Users In A Week
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The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more »
Chinese Video Sites Accuse Each Other Of TV Show Piracy
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China’s two largest video-streaming sites, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) and Youku (NYSE:YOKU), are heading for a legal battle after Tudou announced t… Read more »
If Netflix Is In Play, Here's Some Companies That Would Be In The Hunt
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Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
The Albert Pujols Deal Shows What's Wrong With The Pay TV Business
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When baseball great Albert Pujols signed a staggering 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last week, he became… Read more »
BBC Now Allowing Mobile iPlayer To Stream On Mobile Networks
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The BBC is permitting use of its iPlayer mobile apps over 3G mobile networks, ahead of its big 2012 Olympic Games mobile push. Read more »
UltraViolet's First Web Channels Are Now Live, Now It's Going Global
The new technology allowing consumers who buy entertainment in physical formats to consume it online for no additional cost has gone live an… Read more »
Netflix CEO Compares Company To Bank Of America And Oakland A's
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Ouch. Reed Hastings addressed a room of investors and media experts today in a bid to reignite confidence in his company. After his curious… Read more »
Time Warner's Bewkes: 'Netflix Is Our Friend'
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Jeff Bewkes capped off a string of strange diatribes in which he has compared Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to “the Albanian army” and “a hamburger”… Read more »
BSkyB 'Perplexed' By On-Demand Movie Judgement
“We confess ourselves slightly perplexed,” BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) finance chief Andrew Griffith told Wall Street investors, when asked about the… Read more »
Forget Smart TV, Is 'Dumb TV' The Next Big Thing?
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It looks like 2012 will be the year of connected TV. Samsung, Sony (NYSE: SNE), LG (SEO: 066570) and the rest are right now packing their se… Read more »
Fetch TV Appifies Its Box To Take Premium VOD OTT
UK connected TV set-top box operator IP Vision, which has quietly sold its Fetch TV box for a few years now, is launching it as an app on ri… Read more »
Slideshow: The Future Of Movies According To Blinkbox And Tesco
Tesco will start retailing its own line of internet-enabled TV in stores under its Technika brand in the new year – amongst the many ways it… Read more »
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
When Tesco bought 80 percent of online PPV movie vendor Blinkbox in April, paidContent reported how the UK supermarket giant would give buy… Read more »
