Netflix is nearing two decades as a service, but if feels that the simplified streaming service has been around for time immemorial. However, you still have to pay for it every month, and the price keeps going up. If you win this week’s GeekWire Giveaway, you can...
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GeekWire Radio: Amazon vs. Netflix, Smartphone VR 101, and one month with the Galaxy S7 Edge
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Amazon challenges Netflix...
Amazon takes on Netflix with new monthly Prime membership programs
Amazon will offer a monthly version of its Prime membership program in a move that challenges rival Netflix and gives customers new subscription options.
Starting Sunday evening, the Seattle based tech giant will sell a monthly Prime membership for its video streaming service at $ 8.99 per month...
Netflix throttling itself isn’t a net neutrality problem, FCC chair says
(credit: Netflix)
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said yesterday that he has no plans to investigate Netflix for throttling its own video streams, despite Netflix's critics calling for an investigation.
Netflix acknowledged last week that it reduces video quality on most mobile networks to help users stay under their data caps and avoid data overage charges. Opponents...
HBO plans to add 600 hours of original programming, taking direct aim at Netflix
Just like the major networks duking it out for live television ratings, HBO and Netflix are going for the jugular when it comes to streaming original content.
‘House of Cards’ is the world’s most pirated show, thanks to Netflix global streaming rights
Netflix is currently streaming in 245 global regions (countries and territories combined), which makes for some very complicated distribution rights discussions. Just because a show is available to stream in Canada, doesn’t necessarily mean Netflix subscribers in the U.S. will have access.
Verizon’s mobile video won’t count against data caps—but Netflix does
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. (credit: Fortune Live Media)
Verizon Wireless is testing the limits of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules after announcing that it will exempt its own video service from mobile data caps—while counting data from competitors such as YouTube and Netflix against customers' caps.
The only way for companies to deliver data to Verizon...
Netflix starts blocking VPNs, proxies, and other unblocking services
Netflix, right on schedule, has started blocking some subscribers who are using VPNs.
Last week, on January 14, Netflix said that it would begin cracking down on customers who use VPNs, proxies, or other "unblocking" services to view content that shouldn't be available in their country. The move is almost certainly to appease copyright holders and broadcasters. Way back in...
Netflix will add 25 days of new original content in 2016
If you’re planning on binging all of the content Netflix releases itself this year, you’re going to need several weeks to do so. Netflix has repeatedly mentioned that they plan on doubling the amount of original content they release in 2016, with...
Netflix exec calls NBC’s report on streaming viewership ‘remarkably inaccurate’
Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos has been forced to talk about something that the streaming service has always been quite content not to discuss: its ratings. But that didn’t...
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