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Amazon Instant Video reaches 100,000 on-demand titles

August 18, 2011

Amazon grows again.

Amazon is constantly growing and expanding its catalog of videos available for on-demand streaming. The service just reached the 100k mark with 9,000 of those available under the Prime streaming plan. The bulk of the library is set aside for à la carte renting and buying with TV titles starting at $.99 cent and movies for $3.99. With deep living room penetration, all Amazon needs to do is flip the switch, offer a reasonably-priced subscription plan open to all titles, and effectively shut down Netflix…

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The looming content battle between TV Everywhere & online streaming

July 27, 2011

What are you streaming and how?

The TV Everywhere movement got another win Wednesday, as Fox announced that it will limit next-day streaming access to some of its programs to cable, satellite and Hulu Plus customers. This news, which comes a week after CNN and HLN’s TV Everywhere push, is just the latest example of the complicated relationship between television networks and the burgeoning streaming services game.

TV Everywhere, which Netflix’s Reed Hastings has referred to as his company’s “biggest competitor,” is gaining favor with content producers, like broadcast and cable networks…

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Are you ready to ditch Netflix? Here are six alternatives to renting videos

July 21, 2011

More than 12,000 — mostly angry — comments have been posted on Netflix’s blog since it announced the new plan July 12.

Netflix recently announced that customers would have to pay extra for unlimited online video streaming starting September 1 and many subscribers are an unhappy bunch. Currently, Netflix members can get unlimited streaming and unlimited (mailed) DVDs for $9.99 a month but under the new plan announced, members will have to pay $15.98 a month to get both services ($7.99 for unlimited streaming and $7.99 for unlimited DVDs).

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MoviePass offers all-you-can-watch movies in theaters for a flat monthly rate

June 28, 2011

MoviePass

The Netflix model may be coming to a theater near you. MoviePass, a new $50-per-month service for film fans, will let subscribers watch unlimited movies in theaters using their smartphones as tickets.

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Netflix Accounts for 30% of Internet Traffic Overtaking Web Surfing

May 23, 2011

Movies and TV shows online takes up a lot of bandwidth compared with Web surfing.

Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes than web surfing.

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Warner Brothers to Offer Movie Rentals on Facebook

March 9, 2011

Warner Brothers will rent “The Dark Knight” to American users over Facebook for the equivalent of $3 in Facebook’s currency.

Warner Brothers became the first major media company to offer a movie for rent on Facebook, a move that could position the social network to become a force in the digital distribution of movies, rivaling services like Netflix and iTunes.

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Amazon Takes On Netflix with Unlimited Video Streaming

February 23, 2011

Amazon has announced it will stream movies for free to people who subscribe to the e-tailer’s Prime service.

For years, Amazon appeared to be a big pushover when it came to delivering Web entertainment.

During the early part of the Internet Age, Amazon shipped CDs and DVDs to customers who ordered them via the Web and CEO Jeff Bezos’ company was synonymous with Web music and movies. Then Apple’s iTunes, and Netflix, laid waste to physical discs by delivering digital downloads or streaming video and Amazon quietly drifted to the back of the pack.

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Netflix Buttons Coming to a TV Remote Near You

January 4, 2011

BANG! Straight to Netflix.

Just ahead of CES, Netflix has announced that consumers will soon be able to access Netflix content on supported consumer electronics devices, directly from a button on their remote controls.

Netflix has partnered with several consumer electronics leaders to bring a Netflix-branded button to the remote controls for televisions,Blu-ray players and other set-top boxes that support theNetflix Watch Instantly streaming service…

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