The geeks are in and the zombies are out. That’s what Amazon has reportedly decided for the first rounds of cuts of its original comedy TV content. About a month ago, Amazon’s TV production leg made pilot episodes for eight comedy shows available on Prime and asked the public to pick its favorites. Zombieland writer-producer Rhett Reese… Read More…
Amazon signed yet another streaming deal today, this time inking a content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal to stream a bevy of shows exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Shows like Covert Affairs, Grimm and Suits are available today, while Hannibal and Defiance will be released later this year. Through Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, shows like Curious George and Land Before Time will also be available for kids and… Read More…
The Vikings are coming to Amazon. LoveFilm, Europe’s leading movie subscription services that Amazon bought in 2011, just gained exclusive streaming rights in the U.K. and Germany for the popular television series Vikings. This marks the first time that a show has been distributed on LoveFilm before hitting the cable networks or traditional broadcast stations. All nine episodes… Read More…
Is Netflix depending too heavily on Amazon? That’s one of the questions raised by a cover story about Netflix in the new issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. The piece by Ashlee Vance focuses on Netflix’s recovery but also includes the back story on Netflix’s decision to go with Amazon Web Services for cloud computing rather… Read More…
Bellevue-based Coinstar, which operates coin counting and movie rental kiosks, is considering a corporate name change to Outerwall. The new name is meant to “signify innovation and pushing the walls of retail out into a new dimension through current and future automated retail solutions,” the company noted in a press release. Coinstar, perhaps best known… Read More…
Paying for online content was a funny idea back when Napster was a hero and no one had heard the word “paywall.” Now it seems that’s changed. Almost without noticing, I’ve gone from avoiding any paid online content to subscribing to quite a bit of it. Whether I’m actually paying for that access is another… Read More…
As the major online streaming services develop and launch original content, one of the most interesting tactics has come from Netflix, which released all 13 episodes of its well-received series House of Cards on a single day, Feb. 1. So everybody just signed up for a free trial, watched the whole series over the weekend… Read More…
Those with big families or lots of movie-loving friends might enjoy this: Netflix will offer a $11.99/month plan that allows for four simultaneous streams. At $8/month, users can currently stream two movies or TV shows at the same time. But in Netflix’s earnings report, CEO Reed Hastings announced the new plan today: A few members with… Read More…
If Netflix or any other movie app on Xbox Live ain’t cutting it for you, there’s another option now available: Flixster. Microsoft announced the availability of Flixster for Xbox Live subscribers in the U.S. and you can now rent and buy movies directly from your console by using the app. Some cool features include the ability to… Read More…
Netflix says it will stop using Microsoft Silverlight’s technology to stream video on Windows PCs and Macs — just as soon as HTML5 video evolves to meet its needs for playing content in the browser without a plugin. Netflix’s use of Silverlight, Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash, had at one point been a coup for… Read More…
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