Netflix
For decades, television has been used as a babysitter by parents desperate to get dinner on the table or for a few minutes of calm amidst the drama of child rearing. But instead of channel surfing, kids today are increasingly surfing the digital library of Netflix to get their cartoon fix.
“John Carter” was one of the biggest film flops of all time. The special-effects-heavy sci-fi epic set on Mars turned out to be an epic box office failure in the U.S. for Disney, leading to a shakeup of company executives. Even as audiences largely ignored the film, “John Carter” finds itself at the center of a battle between Disney on one side and Netflix and Redbox on the other.
The Amazon Instant Video app is now available for the Xbox 360.
It seems like the last time we checked in on Netflix, it wasn’t doing too well. Its shares were plunging, competitors were popping up everywhere and Qwikster was shorthand for corporate cluelessness. Today, however, things are looking up.
As a purely financial matter, Netflix’s quarterly report should not have precipitated the absolute shellacking that the company’s stock suffered after-hours Monday, wiping out about $1 billion in shareholder equity.
If you own the highway as well as several of the vehicles that use it, is it fair to tax everyone except your drivers? That’s essentially what Comcast did when it decided to exempt its TV-based Xfinity “On Demand” service for the Xbox 360 from counting against periodic data caps, effectively un-leveling the playing field. Comcast’s [...]
Netflix may be trying to radically reshape its future by positioning itself as an honest-to-goodness cable channel to square off against the likes of HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and Starz.
The sun is quickly setting on Netflix’s streaming partnership with Starz. As previously reported, the two companies couldn’t hammer out a deal and, as a result, some 1,000 or so Starz titles — many from Sony and Disney — will be pulled from the Netflix catalog this week. Here are 50 of the more notable ones.
“We don’t have any current plans to support Blackberry devices, including Playbook,” says a recent tweet from Netflix’s support account. It’s an issue that’s been a thorn in the sides of BlackBerry users for quite some time.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is launching a new video-on-demand service aimed squarely at Netflix, in a move that illustrates accelerating competition for advantage over the digital living room.
It turns out the ongoing Hulu versus Netflix faceoff for streaming domination has just been buffering in preparation for the latest battle. Within one week, both streaming video giants have shed their identities as mere content providers and have taken on new roles as content creators.
