Ah, fall: the days grow colder, the nights grow longer, and it’s the perfect season to hunker down, grab a blanket and a beverage, and binge-watch your way through the winter. Unfortunately for Netflix’s millions of fans, the price of spending quality time on the sofa with your favorite Netflix shows is going up this year. [More]
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Report: Apple Is Going Shopping For Original Content With $1B To Spend
By 8.16.17
Months after rumors first started swirling that Apple was looking into buying its own original content to bolster its Apple Music platform, a new report indicates that the tech giant might be ready to go shopping — with $1 billion to burn. [More]
Netflix Is Now In The Comic Book Business; Buys Company Behind Kick-Ass, Kingsman
By 8.7.17
Comic book characters are a big business, responsible for billions of dollars a year in movie and TV revenue. Netflix knows this fact first-hand from its various, exclusive Marvel shows, but now the streaming video giant has gone a step further, actually popping off to the shop and picking up a comic book company to call its own. [More]
Comcast to Launch ‘Instant TV’ Streaming Service This Fall
By 7.27.17
Would you consider getting a cable-replacement TV service from a cable company? If so, Comcast has a proposal for you. [More]
Why Does Hulu Drive More Cord-Cutting Than Netflix Or Amazon Prime?
By 6.23.17
When people think of subscription streaming video services, Hulu is usually part of the discussion but is often treated as secondary to Netflix or Amazon Prime. Yet, despite this third-place image of Hulu, it may be the streaming service that is most likely to contribute to people cutting the cord with their cable provider. [More]
Netflix’s New Interactive TV Shows Allow You To Choose What Happens Next
By 6.20.17
If you were around in the late ‘70s and into the ‘80s, you’ll undoubtedly remember the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books, which allowed readers to make choices about what would happen next, ultimately deciding the characters’ fate. Netflix is perhaps hoping to piggyback on that nostalgia withs its new interactive TV shows. [More]
Report: Amazon Video Is Finally Coming To Apple TV
By 5.5.17
It looks like Amazon and Apple may have decided to kiss and make up: A new report says the two Silicon Valley rivals are close to to a deal that would make Amazon’s video app available on Apple TV. [More]
Report: 25% Of Americans Won’t Have A Traditional TV Subscription By 2018
By 4.24.17 — Updated: 5.10.17
TV viewers have been snipping the cord and freeing themselves from traditional TV subscriptions offered by satellite and cable companies for years, so it may come as no surprise that the flood of customers fleeing to streaming video shows no signs of easing. [More]
5 Things You Should Know About Google’s New ‘YouTube TV’ $35/Month Streaming Service
By 4.5.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
When Google confirmed YouTube TV — its answer to live-TV streaming platforms like DirecTV Now, Sling, and PlayStation Vue — details were still sketchy. Today, the internet giant officially launched the service, showing potential viewers exactly what they’ll get for their $35/month. [More]
Streaming Subscription Audience Has Surpassed Pay-TV Subscribers In U.S., Claims Survey
By 3.8.17
It’s been about two years since America’s major cable companies started seeing their internet service customers outnumber their pay-TV subscribers, and now a new survey claims that streaming video subscriptions in the U.S. have overtaken cable and satellite subscriptions. [More]
Almost Half Of Netflix Customers Are Streaming Cheaters
By 2.13.17
Tonight, when you’re settling on the couch with your loved one and a giant pile of snacks, take a closer look at your partner: Do they look like they’ve been doing something so despicable, so hateful and mean, that you might not ever forgive them? Or… do you have a bad behavior you’d like to admit? If you’re like almost half the world, someone is Netflix cheating in your relationship. [More]
Is Netflix’s DVD Service Doomed?
By 1.19.17
When we talk about video nowadays, the conversation is usually about streaming content and the services that provide them. While Netflix’s DVD service is still kicking — and even has its very own app — it’s been losing customers steadily for years. And now, with the latest quarter’s subscriber exodus, some are wondering whether the disc-based service’s time is limited. [More]
AT&T Scrapping $35 DirecTV Now Pricing In January; Bumping Bundle To $60
By 12.30.16
Well, that really didn’t last long. The promising $35-per-month price for AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming bundle was always billed as “promotional” and time-limited, but that time appears to be short. Super-short. As in: ending on Jan. 9, in just over a week. [More]
Here’s A Huge List Of Holiday Movies You Can Stream Instead Of Talking To Your Family
By 12.23.16
The gifts have been opened, the whiskey has been added to the eggnog, and all you want i to stop talking to everyone who’s been getting on your nerves all day. Here’s to hoping you’ve got access to a streaming subscription service, and your father-in-law finally figured out where he put the piece of paper with the WiFi password on it. [More]
You Can Now Buy HBO, Cinemax Through Amazon Prime
By 12.1.16
In Amazon’s continuing effort to be everything and anything for its customers, the e-commerce giant announced today that it will be offering streaming HBO and Cinemax subscriptions to its Prime members. [More]
AT&T Confirms Live Access To NBC Is Still Mobile-Only On ‘DirecTV Now’
By 11.30.16
Earlier this week at the official launch event for the DirecTV Now live-TV streaming service, I and others noticed that while the live feed for the local NBC affiliate was showing up on the DirecTV Now mobile app, the channel was absent from the lineup of stations available for viewing on your actual TV. AT&T staff that we spoke to at the event insisted that this would not be the case when the service launched, but DirecTV Now is now live — and NBC is still not working on users’ TV sets. [More]
Netflix Will Finally Let Users Download Some Content For Offline Viewing
By 11.30.16
It’s been whispered and buzzed about for a long time now, but it’s happening at last: Netflix says it will allow users to download select TV shows and movies to their mobile devices so they can watch them even when they’re not online. [More]
6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Deciding Whether To Try ‘DirecTV Now’
By 11.29.16
Last night, AT&T finally pulled back the veil on its long-awaited DirecTV Now streaming service, which will launch tomorrow starting at $35/month. But before you take a sledgehammer to your cable box or refashion the satellite dish into a sled and/or serving bowl, there are some important things to consider. [More]
