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What Is The Best Streaming Service Today? Netflix? Or Hulu? Or Amazon? 22 September 2015
Video on Demand Streaming services started as an add-on to DVD and digital download offerings with a trickle of second-run movies and TV shows. But speedier Internet connections and an explosion of mobile video has allowed services like Netflix and … Continue reading
Competition, Convergence Drive Football Prices Down In Spain 22 September 2015
While Spanish pay-TV usually commands Europe’s most expensive prices for football content, this season’s new scenario – with more convergent players like VOD services and a different rights management model – has seen prices lowered, now ranking among the … Continue reading
Will An Internet Streaming Service Win A Best Series Emmy For The First Time? 21 September 2015
Netflix and Amazon have both been nominated in the best series categories for tonight’s Emmys. No online video on demand streaming service has won before. Amazon or Netflix may become the first Internet streaming company to earn an Emmy Award for … Continue reading
Discovery CEO Says TV Industry Must Fight Back Against VOD Services 21 September 2015
VOD services like Netflix, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc. and Apple Inc. are posing a serious threat to the television industry, therefore, the chief executive of Discovery is asking the industry to take measures to check the erosion of its power by these … Continue reading
All TV will be Internet in 10-20 yrs, Claims Netflix CEO 21 September 2015
Netflix is the VOD service that not only allows for TV shows and movies to be streamed, but also creates its own original programming. It reported a fantastic quarter in July, with confirmation that it added 3.3 million new subscribers. … Continue reading
Cable TV Pricing Is So High Because We’re The Mercedes Of Entertainment, Says Time Warner Cable CEO 21 September 2015
Over the last year we’ve finally started to see the emergence of more flexible online video on demand options like the “skinny bundle,” where customers nab a cheaper, smaller base package of channels, with the option to pick and choose … Continue reading
Here’s What Keeps Americans From Cutting the Cord 21 September 2015
Very slowly, Americans are cutting the cord with traditional pay-television providers. It’s not the mass exodus that has been predicted, even though the alternatives to cable and satellite are extensive, convenient, and inexpensive. It’s easy to drop your old-fashioned … Continue reading
Television Executives Signal A Shift In Relationship With Netflix 18 September 2015
Two of the biggest US television network owners have signaled a shift in their relationship with Netflix, amid fears that the popularity of the VOD service is accelerating a wave of defections from the pay-television industry by “cord-cutting” customers. Netflix … Continue reading
Mobile TV Viewing Jumps 7% In One Year 18 September 2015
More than a third of consumers who watch TV shows online use a smartphone for TV viewing (37%), a figure that has risen 7 points from 2014 (30%), according to new data from Hub’s annual “Finding Input One” study. … Continue reading
Netflix And Google Could Pay A Tax For Australian Content, Believes ABC Boss 17 September 2015
ABC managing director Mark Scott has suggested digital content companies such as VOD service Netflix, Apple and Google pay a percentage of their revenue into a fund to pay for Australian content. While Australians are avid consumers of US-generated … Continue reading
