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Sky offers free flicks to Sky+HD Party hosts

Shane McGlaun, Nov 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

If you are a Sky+HD subscriber the company is leaning on you to impress your friends with some awesome HD movie action by offering customers a free flick to watch with three friends if those pals accept your invite online. Sky is calling the offer the Sky+HD Party. Read The Full Story

Netflix Commits to Pay Hollywood Studios at Least $1.2 Billion for Streaming Content

Chris Burns, Oct 27th 2010 Discuss [1]

Netflix was awesome and basically revolutionary when it was first formed. What do you mean I can rent movies without going to the video store? That's crazy! Then it got even more awesome with streaming content. What do you mean I can just watch everything I ever wanted without even walking to my mailbox? That's crazy! Now here's the tab. Reed Hastings' Netflix has committed to paying Hollywood studios at least $1.2 billion USD for the rights to play new films streaming online. Read The Full Story

Netflix streaming gobbles 20% of peak internet bandwidth in US

Shane McGlaun, Oct 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

You don’t have to be an analyst to see that the popularity of Netflix and its streaming service is booming. Netflix has been adding support for its streaming service to all manner of TVs, Blu-ray players, and other devices for a while now and the company now considers itself a streaming firm that also mails DVDs. Read The Full Story

UK streaming movie service LOVEFiLM heads to PS3

Shane McGlaun, Oct 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

The number of movie and content offerings that can be viewed on the PS3 thanks to web streaming continues to grow every day. In the UK, a service called LOVEFiLM has revealed that it will be bringing its streaming movie content to the PS3 for UK fans. Read The Full Story

Sony’s Qriocity On-Demand Media Streaming Hitting Europe This Fall

Evan Selleck, Sep 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Sony is already starting to make some waves at this year's IFA event, over there across the pond. With a few announcements ready to go public today, they've pulled the curtain off their video-on-demand service, which will now forever be known as Qriocity. It's been on the workbench for quite some time now, and it's good to finally see that Sony's unveiling the project for a market release here in just a matter of weeks. Though, if you're not in a few select countries in Europe, you'll have to wait a bit longer to get your hands on the streaming digital content. Read The Full Story

Netflix PS3 disc-free update coming; Hulu Plus is “a direct competitor”

Chris Davies, Jul 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Netflix are promising an update to their PS3 streaming client sometime within the next three months, complete with a new UI that's loaded onto the console rather than requiring a disc as with the current implementation. That's just one part of the company's attempt to take on the Hulu Plus challenge; according to NewTeeVee, Netflix are seeing slowing DVD subscriber growth as more users turn to streaming. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings puts that down, in part, to an increase in TV content. Read The Full Story

Steve Jobs: Blu-ray will be beaten by internet downloads

Chris Davies, Jul 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

While the new Mac mini may have brought the HDMI output many were clamouring for, its position as the HTPC of choice was slightly undermined by the continued absence of a Blu-ray drive. According to the latest email exchange with Steve Jobs, we shouldn't hold our breath for any Blu-ray on an Apple machine; a MacRumors reader asked the CEO about the optical drive's absence, only to be told by Jobs that "Bluray is looking more and more like one of the high end audio formats that appeared as the successor to the CD - like it will be beaten by Internet downloadable formats." Read The Full Story

WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player Brings Netflix to Yet Another Box

Evan Selleck, Jun 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Netflix is just about everywhere you'd want it to be at this point. Even the mobile scene. So don't consider us all that surprised that it's just shown up on yet another box, with access to your full Netflix library. Western Digital has officially announced the availability of their TV Live Plus HD Media Player (which is much like their previous TV Live HD, but with a plus sign), and if you're interested in all sorts of cool features, then take a look after the break for what it's bringing to the table, plus that release date and pricing we know you care so much about. Read The Full Story

Roku Unveils New Netflix Channel Design and Adds Plenty of Features [Video]

Evan Selleck, May 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

Looks like the time for much needed upgrades is upon us, because Roku has just let us know that their Netflix Channel will be getting a major face lift here soon. If you're a current owner of a Roku box, or you've been thinking about buying one, then be happy in knowing that the streaming movie service is getting the love and attention it deserves, especially when a search function is being included. We love searching for what we want. It just makes it all so much easier. Read The Full Story

Vudu online movie service acquired by Wal-Mart

Paul Fang, Feb 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

The word’s out today from the NY Times that that Wal-Mart is set to acquire Vudu, the online movie streaming service in an acquisition set to be worth approximately $100 million. Additional information and the full press release can be found after the break. Read The Full Story

Columns

Blu-ray: “The Best is the Enemy of the Good”

Michael Gartenberg, Jan 13th 2010 Discuss [6]

It’s sometimes a challenge to understand how arguably better technologies often lose out to things that are inferior. We’ve seen it time and time again. The problem is that consumers are often not interested in the “best” technology but are more than satisfied with that which is “good enough”. These days, a good example would be to look at Blu-Ray and how it’s being adopted by consumers.

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Netgear Digital Entertainer Express EVA9100 1080p media streamer debuts

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Netgear have outed its latest HD-capable digital media streamer, the Netgear Digital Entertainer Express EVA9100, at CES 2010 this morning. The EVA9100 can stream digital content from your networked computers, NAS (such as Netgear's own Stora) or online in up to 1080p High Definition, connecting to your HDTV via HDMI with automatic upscaling. Standard network connectivity is via 10/100 ethernet, though Netgear will happily sell you a WiFi a/g/n dongle that plugs into one of the EVA9100's two USB 2.0 ports. Read The Full Story