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Netflix Q4 earnings beat estimates, regains 610,000 US subscribers

Rue Liu, Jan 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Despite stumbles last year over price hikes and a short-lived Qwikster spin-off, Netflix is bouncing back, releasing Q4 2011 earnings today that beat Wall Street estimates. The company reported $876 million in revenue or $0.73 per share, beating expectations of $857 million at $0.54 per share. It also managed to regain 610,000 subscribers after having lost 800,000 subscribers last summer when it raised prices. Read The Full Story

CES Live

Samsung SMART Hub streams DVD content over WiFi

Michael Crider, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [1]

There's a decent selection of WiFi gadgets here at CES, and Samsung seems to be combining a little of the old and the new. Their new SMART Hub combines an external DVD disc drive and a conventional WiFi router, allowing connected devices to stream DVD movies and CD music across the local network. In a time when more and more Ultrabooks, netbooks and the like are making do without an optical drive, this could be an extremely useful addition. Read The Full Story

Samsung Optical SMART Hub packs DVD burner with media sharing

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung has taken the wraps off of its latest multimedia-sharing device, the Samsung Optical SMART Hub, an external DVD burner that can share files via WiFi, USB and ethernet connection to your tablet, smartphone, smart TV or computer. Resembling a slightly oversized external drive,at 150 x 198 x 25 mm and 430g, the Optical SMART Hub works alongside a new Android app (with iPhone, Kindle and smart TV apps in the pipeline) for remote access. Read The Full Story

Sceptre 19-inch LED HDTV has integrated DVD player

Shane McGlaun, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [1]

If you need a new HDTV for a smaller room with little space, you might want to consider the new 19-inch offering from Sceptre. The new TV is called the E195BD-SHD+ and it weighs in at under 7.3 pounds on the stand. The TV is interesting because it has an integrated DVD player on the side so you don’t need another component in the room to watch movies. Read The Full Story

Netflix loses 800,000 US subscribers, earnings to dip

Rue Liu, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [4]

Netflix reported its Q3 earnings results today and although the numbers were positive, they won't remain so in the upcoming months. CEO Reed Hastings has admitted that the company's recent stumbles, including price hikes and the now canceled plans for Qwikster, were ill received, tarnishing the company's "hard-earned reputation." Read The Full Story

Netflix axes Qwikster: DVDs and Streaming to cohabit

Chris Davies, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [2]

Netflix has backtracked on much-criticized plans to rename its DVD rental service Qwikster, announcing that while the business will still be split from the streaming media service, both will operate under the Netflix brand. “This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster” Netflix said this morning, after it had become “clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult.”

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Borders customer data transfers to Barnes & Noble, privacy concerns arise

Chris Burns, Oct 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you were sad that Borders closed this July, and with it all of the data on which books you purchased when, you may be in luck, because Barnes & Noble owns that data now. During the bankruptcy court which saw the sales of Borders assets across the board, personal data (preferences in reading material, DVDs, music, etc) of some 45 million Borders customers included, Barnes & Noble saw the opportunity and grabbed for it, and just this last week, that court approved such a sale. What does that mean, exactly? Will they now know everything about my LIFE? Not exactly. Read The Full Story

Private Copying of CDs and DVDs to be Legalized in the UK

Chris Burns, Aug 2nd 2011 Discuss [2]

This Wednesday, Britain will signal its intent to legalize copying of CDs or DVDs onto computers and/or digital music players for personal use. This word comes from a government source speaking with Rueters this Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011. This move will be on a recommendation made to review Britian's intellectual property framework as carried out by Professor Ian Hargreaves earlier this year at the request of Prime Minister David Cameron. Digital music converters around the country realize it's been illegal all this time, say "oh dear me," and continue on with their day. Read The Full Story

Kaleidescape Vault M700 Robotic Storage For Your CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray Discs

Rue Liu, Jul 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you have a massive collection of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs that you'd like to have automatically stored and archived for easy access, then you might consider a robotic disc loader like the new Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault. The M700 Disc Vault is a movie server that swallows your discs into a precision carousel, copies the content onto the Kaleidescape System, and easily plays back what you want when you want it---no more wasting time rummaging through your collection. Read The Full Story

Columns

Is this the chance Netflix rivals have been waiting for?

Don Reisinger, Jul 13th 2011 Discuss [36]

Netflix might have committed a major blunder earlier this week by announcing that customers who had previously paid $9.99 per month for unlimited DVD rentals (with one DVD out at a time) and unlimited streaming will now need to pay $15.98 for the same service.

In essence, Netflix is saying that those who want DVDs and streaming won’t get anything new or better, but they will need to pay more for that right. And as expected, a large group of the company’s customers have come out in criticism of that.

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Netflix Announces Price Hike, Splits DVD And Streaming Plans

Rue Liu, Jul 12th 2011 Discuss [13]

Back in April we talked about Netflix considering some major changes to their pricing plans and today the company has officially unveiled those details. But they’re not quite what we were expecting. The most popular DVD-rental service in the country has decided to unbundle their DVD and streaming plan so that each must be separately subscribed with a result of costing more.

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Onkyo BD-SP809 Blu-ray flagship adds on-demand streaming, more

Chris Davies, Jul 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

Onkyo knows you love a flagship, and so it's packed more than the average abilities into its new top-tier Blu-ray player, the BD-SP809. As well as playing Blu-ray - including 3D titles - DVD and CD discs, the BD-SP809 will play DivX HD, MP3 and WMA files from USB drives or, indeed, stream photo, audio and video content over a network thanks to DLNA 1.5 compliance. Read The Full Story