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- Netflix
- A movie disc rental and streaming service from Netflix, Los Gatos, CA. For a monthly fee based on service level, DVD and Blu-ray rentals are ordered online, and Netflix...
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- Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft's Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...
- Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Diaz Memo, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Sam Diaz, NBC, Netflix
- Videos 2008-11-21
- Netflix Chief Product Officer: Streaming movies right to your TV
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, believes that the future of movies is going to go right back to the television. With bigger and better digital televisions, what people want is to be able to download movies right to their sets via high-speed internet. Netflix has taken a step...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Netflix
- Videos 2008-11-11
- Should Apple fear the Netflix Player?
- Should Apple fear the Netflix Player?RE: Should Apple fear the Netflix Player?ut oh, some one is comparing a generic product to something made by Apple, even though they are vastly different products. This should be brutal.Stone the infidels! Apple TV is perfect. Do not challenge!Looks promising, but...Comparing the present functionality...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., AppleTV, Apple Inc., netflix, movie
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Netflix fixes Web 2.0 bugs
- Netflix fixes Web 2.0 bugsOkNow if they could just speed up the receipt of movies I have sent back, everything would be fine.http://one.revver.com/watch/77151/format/flv/affiliate/23672Cookies DON'T work people!This is why these creeps should quit using cookies... ebay and paypal... all of them fall under this... I do not use any of...
- Tags: Financial services, Web, netflix, NetFlix Inc., Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
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- PhoneFlix 1.3 (Mobile)
- With PhoneFlix your iPhone can add and remove movies from your Netflix Queue, change the position of a movie in your Netflix Queue, search and browse through Netflix's catalog of over 100,000 titles including new releases, classic movies, and TV favorites, and view your recent activity, recommendations, and reviews. PhoneFlix...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Mobile, Next Mobile Web, PhoneFlix 1.3, TVs, Smart Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-07-02
- Blu-ray's Blo-tards bite back
- Someone hired the PR/lobbying firm Corporate Advocates to bite back at Storage Bits. Their message: the Harris Poll on Blu-ray was wrong about the number of homes with Blu-ray players. A fact, it so happens, I never mentioned. But blow enough Blu-smoke and people will forget what...
- Tags: Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- The Harsh Reality of Suburban Broadband, Part Deux
- Goddamit! Why have I been offline for so long? As I explained in a previous article last summer about my broadband situation, my employer, like many large technology services companies, has elected to classify my work situation as "Home-Based", in that...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Broadband, Mike, Cable Guy, Modems, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- A Personal Assistant Premium 3.5 (Mobile)
- A Personal Assistant Premium enables you to monitor banking, credit card transactions, and investment accounts, track cell minutes, see itineraries, manage air miles, view your Netflix queue, and online shopping accounts. Accounts update automatically so you have no need to manually input any data. You can manage accounts such as...
- Tags: Mobile, Pageonce, Personal Assistant Premium, Summary Screen, Banking, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-06-26
- VIZIO introduces Internet app-enabled XVT HDTV series
- Who really needs to pay extra for a TiVo or DVR during these trying economic times, right? VIZIO recently announced a new line of HDTVs that will incorporate video streaming sites and video applications. I got a chance to check out the TVs yesterday, and I...
- Tags: RealNetworks Rhapsody, HDTV, Video, VIZIO, VIZIO Internet Apps Connnected HDTV Feature, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Web Site Development, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Internet, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans
- While Vizio was one of a number of TV makers showing off networked TVs at CES in January, the company was mum on details about them when it announced its 2009 lineup a couple of weeks ago. Now, the company, which recently became the top TV...
- Tags: Internet TV, Vizio, Showtime, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Blu-ray buzzkill: the death-spiral
- Will consumers upgrade to Blu-ray? The CEO & co-founder of fast growing Netflix believes mailed DVDs shall be replaced by web-sent movies. And a recent Harris [no relation, darn it] Poll finds that people today are less likely to buy a Blu-ray player than they were last year. ...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Blu-ray, Harris Poll Number, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Holy Betamax, Batman! Blu-ray is still barely beating out HD-DVD
- Holy Betamax, Batman! Blu-ray is still barely beating out HD-DVDWhere do you find $20 BR movies???BR movies are usually $25+.Netflix all you can view for $12.99, forget bluebubble or what ever...ntHD-DVD prices plummeted...When the media declared Bluray to be the winner, all the electronics stores immediately slashed their prices on...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...
- Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Popcorn Hour C-200: Hot, buttery media streamer
- Popcorn Hour C-200: Hot, buttery media streamerNo Netflix? No Roku? Why bother...Streaming your own content over the network let's you watch what you already own, but the future is streaming services. Any device which doesn't support a streaming service is going to win very few sales these days.I can't wait...
- Tags: Backups, Popcorn Hour C-200, media streamer, backup, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Popcorn Hour C-200: Hot, buttery media streamer
- Streaming media devices for your home theater are quickly becoming a dime a dozen, so any company that doesn't already have a big name needs to stand out in order for anyone to pay attention. Popcorn Hour certainly has a moniker that's easier to recall than...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Dolby Digital, HDMI, Video, Popcorn Hour C-200, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- MovieLingo 1.0 (Mobile)
- MovieLingo allows you to listen to movie quotes, discover and rediscover great movies, browse by movie category or decade, save your favorite movie quotes, share streaming audio quotes on Facebook, challenge your movie knowledge, peruse movie posters, casts, and plots, manage your Netflix queue, and purchase movies online.
- Tags: Mobile, Movie, Avalinx, MovieLingo
- Software downloads 2009-06-17
- DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!
- My DVD collection is 3 layers deep and takes up 2 tall ugly fiberboard IKEA book cases. I'd like to get them out of my living room and into a random access, cataloged digital media format. Got any ideas? Over the weekend, I...
- Tags: Movie, Digital Television, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Flaw, Palm Inc., Mozilla Corp., Keyboards, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- LG begins shipping first HDTVs with built-in Netflix capabilities
- LG begins shipping first HDTVs with built-in Netflix capabilitiesG10 not networked???By "networked" do you mean having an ethernet port to allow access to the web/web content? If so, the Panasonic G10 does have that feature. Although, instead of Netflix, it currently has access to Amazon's library of media...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, NetFlix Inc., G10, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV
- Discussion threads 2009-06-14
- LG begins shipping first HDTVs with built-in Netflix capabilities
- Streaming media devices are a good idea, but a better idea is baking those features straight into your TV. While TV manufacturers have been pretty slow about integrating online services with their sets, they've finally started figuring out it's not too tough to add an Ethernet...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Plasma, built-In, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV, Streaming Media Device, TVs, Web Site Development, Tv & Home Theater, Web Technology, Managed Hosting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
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