Netflix this week quietly added just shy of 100 concert films and music documentaries featuring rock and pop legends like the Beatles, Queen, Toto and The Doors to its streaming catalog. The new music content doesn’t exactly make Netflix a Vevo or Wolfgang’s Vault competitor, but it could be a first indicator of music becoming yet another powerful niche for the …
Continue reading “Netflix adds live concerts and music documentaries to its catalog”
Just a few years ago Hulu, the online television site, was something of a novelty. A lot of people knew about it and watched it, but it was just another website. That all changes this week as Hulu participates in “upfronts”. Hulu is in this position because of some staggering numbers: Revenue of $420 million …
Continue reading “Hulu participates in TV’s upfronts – internet television has finally arrived”
Netflix awarded a $1 million prize to a developer team in 2009 for an algorithm that increased the accuracy of the company’s recommendation engine by 10 percent. But today it doesn’t use the million-dollar code, and has no plans to implement it in the future, Netflix announced on its blog Friday. The post goes on to …
Continue reading “Netflix drops $1 million algorithm, goes all-in on streaming recommendations”
In yet another move to boost its Washington profile, Netflix has formed a political action committee (PAC), new federal records indicate. Called FLIXPAC, the committee may now make contributions donations directly to federal candidates — up to $5,000 per election. And it provides Netflix with another political tool with which to aggressively press a pro-intellectual …
Continue reading “Netflix goes to Washington D.C. – forms PAC”
According to research from the IHS Screen Digest, we may have finally reached the point when streaming video services have become ubiquitous enough to take over American households. The researcher forecasts that 3.4 billion movies will be legally consumed over streaming services this year, more than double the 1.4 billion that were viewed last year …
WhichFlicks is a website that allows you to sort through thousands of movies and television shows on Netflix. With that many options there is always something to watch the trouble is finding it. With this website you have the ability to sort by Netflix Stars, Rotten Tomato Ratings, date, genre, audience (MPAA rating), and by …
Netflix is now primarily an Internet streaming service for television shows, not feature films. TV series now account for more than half of all Netflix viewing. That helps to explain why this Wednesday (Feb 29, 2012) — the long-awaited moment when motion picture classics like “Scarface” and newer hits like “Toy Story 3” will vanish …
Continue reading “Netflix turns to TV shows after the movie industry tries to bully the company”
Netflix Inc. and The Weinstein Company today announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from The Weinstein Company exclusively available for Netflix members in the U.S. to watch instantly. “The Artist,” the most honored film of the year with 17 awards for Best Picture and ten …
Instant Watcher is the perfect site for Netflix Instant users. You can quickly and easily find movies to watch and avoid the miserable search and click on Netflix’s own site. “About a quadrillion times easier to browse than Netflix’s own site” — Boing Boing Offworld, Feb 6, 2009 Within a few clicks you can figure out …
David Schwimmer’s “Trust” is my Netflix Instant Choice of the Day. It was on my 2011 Top Ten List. My review: bit.ly/gffadi — Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) January 20, 2012