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Netflix Bumps Blu-ray Access Price up 500%
Given the already impecable service we are receiving from Netflix, it looks like we are getting blessed with a price-hike as well for Blu-ray movie access. When HD disks (Blu-ray and HD-DVD) first dropped at Netflix, they were free for months. Then after Blu-ray won, Netflix shortly announced a premium price-hike for Blu-ray access that was [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers
Saturday, March 14, 2009
What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance? I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a movie [...]
Continue reading...Sony’s Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn’t Sabotage – It’s Just Sony
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Washington Times’s Sonny Bunch wrote an article recently that raked Sony over the coals for: No price cut this holiday season — instead they actually released a more expensive bundle Not properly promoting DVD-upscaling capabilities of the PS3 No Netflix (or other 3rd party) streaming movie support This is all in the wake of Sony’s falling PS3 sales [...]
Continue reading...How to Get the New Xbox Experience Early
Friday, October 24, 2008
For those of you who have not heard the “New Xbox Experience” is the upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox 360. It is scheduled for release on November 19th and includes a large number of changes including: Netflix Streaming XNA Community Games Avatars Xbox Live Marketplace on the Web Updated Games Marketplace Plus a complete redesign of the Dashboard Layout For those [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Watch Instantly Services Gets a Boost with Starz Play
Sunday, October 5, 2008
As a big fan of Netflix I’ve always been annoyed since the Watch-it-Now service first launched (before it was renamed 3x), had a ton of Triple-A titles, then immediately cut them all… I’m guessing due to licensing with the studios. Fortunately it looks like Netflix has inked deals with NBC, Starz and a few others, helping [...]
Continue reading...NetFlix Roku Streaming Movie Device Review
Monday, June 16, 2008
Matt Young has been kind enough to send along a mini-review of the Roku, NetFlix set-top-box streaming media player used to stream the NetFlix “Watch it Now” library directly to your TV over the internet. I had originally been concerned at the size of the NetFlix Watch-it-Now library as well as the picture quality, but Matt [...]
Continue reading...Recommendation Systems – Let ME Decide What I Like
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
I’ve been a NetFlix user for years, and always pretty happy with the service (except for a few throttling issues), but one aspect of the service that has really been bugging me recently is how the stars that NetFlix shows you for the movie ratings is not based off the community’s collective reviews, but rather [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Releases Set Top Player
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
It’s official, Netflix has announced the first of 3 stand-alone set top boxes that integrate directly into their Watch it Now service to stream content directly to your TV. The first STB out of the gate is the Roku, and from the word on the street, sounds like a bare-bones $100 player. My guess is this [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Streaming to Xbox 360
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
A while ago Chris Hunkele gave us a heads up on a Windows Media Center plugin that allowed you to watch the Netflix “Watch it Now” or “Instant” streaming movies on your Xbox 360 by streaming the content to it. Hacking Netflix has an update on that vmcNetflix plugin with a movie showing it in action. [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Recommendation System Snafu?
Friday, April 11, 2008
So I was looking on Netflix to see how I scored Hitman after a friend asked me about it, and noticed down in the “More Like This” section where Netflix recommends more movies to you… it was telling me if I liked Hitman (Action movie, gore, full frontal nudity) that I might like Cesar Milan: [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Mediacenter Plug-in
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anthony Park has released on open beta plug-in, that allows you to utilize your Netflix “Watch it Now” functionality on your Media Center PC. The plug-in is still in beta and still a little buggy, but to be able to cruise movies, shows and concerts with your remote on watch a movie on demand is [...]
Continue reading...Netflix picks Blu-ray (See ya HD-DVD!)
Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje just sent in news that Netflix has decided to go Blu-ray as a response to the trend of other major studios doing the same. While you can still add HD-DVD movies to your queue as of this morning, I don’t know how much longer those disks will stay in circulation. My guess is that [...]
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Monday, March 30, 2009
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