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2.1 million football fans streamed the Super Bowl legally says NBC

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Federal authorities moved to shut down as many illegal streaming sites as possible ahead of the Super Bowl last weekend. It has become very common over the years for websites to illegally stream the Super Bowl, even Tom Brady did it. The big difference this year is the fans could watch the Super Bowl streaming from NBC legally and according to NBC, several million people did just that. Read The Full Story

Netflix partners with eyeIO to reduce bandwidth pressure

, Feb 4th 2012 Discuss [1]

Netflix has become the first client of a new, ambitious startup that promises to offer streaming video content with a significantly reduced bandwidth requirement. In fact, eyeIO says it will cut the amount of bandwidth needed by Netflix streams by more than 50%. With this, the company could potentially further expand its scope on an international level. Read The Full Story

Cheap Raspberry Pi media streamer will run special XBMC software

, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [16]

We have talked about the tiny little Raspberry Pi media streamer several times in the past. This is a little mainboard you can buy for about $35 that hooks your TV and allows you to stream all sorts of content to the big-screen. In case you forget, the little board has an ARM processor integrated and ships with no case. It's more like a bare-bones computer than something along the lines of the Boxee Box that is a complete finished product. Read The Full Story

Netflix users spend twice as much time viewing compared to Hulu viewers

, Dec 28th 2011 Discuss [2]

I have both Netflix and Hulu accounts. I rarely watch Hulu Plus anymore, the shows it has and the content just isn't that great. Even when I do try to watch the videos just don't stream as well for me as they do on Netflix. Hulu ends up constantly buffering and the video quality isn't as good. I keep reminding myself to cancel the subscription but keep forgetting to do it. Apparently, I am not the only one that likes Netflix better than Hulu. Read The Full Story

Super Bowl to be streamed online for the first time, as well as on iOS and Android

, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [1]

There is, bar none, no other televised, live event in the country that commands as much popularity and viewing numbers as the annual NFL Super Bowl. Last year's sporting event drew over 100 million viewers. In a major announcement today, NBC and the National Football League today released their decision that the upcoming championship game of the professional football league will be the first one that will be "streamed online and to mobile phones." As an avid football fan, what more can I say, than, "truly awesome"? Read The Full Story

Netflix slurps 32% of peak internet bandwidth

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Netflix may be losing subscribers and trying to decide on renting games to its customers, but the service still consumes a ton of bandwidth on the internet. A new report that was published recently called the 2011 Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report found that the streaming video service gobbles up a full 32% of the peak internet bandwidth. That is a lot of bandwidth despite losing 800,000 subscribers. Read The Full Story

Video channels expected to Hit YouTube soon

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [0]

YouTube is one of the most heavily visited video streaming channels on the internet. For a long time YouTube has been working hard to get more professional content on its site to help attract more advertisers. One of the ways it has done this so far is by getting streaming movie and music video deals in place with movie and music makers. Read The Full Story

Intel lands CinemaNow HD streaming exclusive

, Oct 7th 2011 Discuss [3]

It seems like every time you look up today some company or another is landing some sort of exclusive in the tech world. Intel has announced that it has landed its own exclusive, and I hope this sort of exclusive doesn't catch on. Intel and CinemaNow have announced that Intel will get exclusive access to 1080p streaming films. Read The Full Story

Netflix slashes subscriber estimates after price bump

, Sep 15th 2011 Discuss [5]

Back in July Netflix made a big move to charge customers more and split the streaming and mail-order movie business' apart. The customers of the service didn’t take to kindly to the splitting of the services and increase in price. The backlash for Netflix was significant. Netflix offered up a guidance update for Q3 recently and it is apparent that customers of Netflix have spoken with their wallets. Read The Full Story

Totalmovie shows off service on Blu-ray players and PS3 for Mexican streaming music fans

, Sep 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

Totalmovie is a movie streaming service in Mexico that has been around for a while. The service provides on-demand films streamed to the TV of watchers within Mexico. The company has announced a new demo of a service expansion that shows off a new ability to stream films from the service to web connected Blu-ray and PS3 game consoles. The new service is built on the WatchWith Service Delivery Platform. The platform allows the streaming of full-length movies to the TV using a disc. Read The Full Story

Netflix lands in Brazil; Western Digital offers WD TV Live Plus Netflix service

, Sep 6th 2011 Discuss [4]

Netflix announced yesterday that it's streaming service was now available in Brazil bringing the streaming content the provider offers to South America for the first time. The last year has been a big one for Netflix, which was only in the US to start. The company has rolled out internationally in a big way and is continuing to do so. Read The Full Story

Netflix to start streaming Mad Men today

, Jul 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Netflix is constantly looking for new streaming content to add it its lineup to woo more and more folks into paying for streaming. I guess at this point Netflix needs some new content to help soothe the feathers of the people unhappy about recent price increases. Netflix also recently announced a new streaming deal with DreamWorks that will see some cool content coming. Read The Full Story
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