What’s on TV tonight? That age-old question is starting to take on new meaning with the growing demand and availability of streaming content. Now, viewers don’t have to flip through the TV Guide to decide what to watch. Between Netflix streaming, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant, HBO GO, and iTunes, there are hundreds of thousands of [...]
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If you’re looking for your favorite Bass-o-Matic skit from Saturday Night Live, you won’t find it on Hulu anymore. The streaming service lost a bidding war against Yahoo to house clips from 1975 to 2012 on the streaming-service website. Yahoo snagged the vintage clips in a deal with Broadway Video as the sole website other [...]
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What We Learned From The Netflix Binge Viewing Experiment: House of Cards
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February 20, 2013
If there was ever a question about the motivation and reasoning behind the Netflix decision to release all 13 first-season episodes of its new original show, House of Cards, the words of CEO Reed Hastings set the record straight. “With Netflix, members can enjoy a show anytime, and over time, we can effectively put the [...]
If you have HBO and a mobile device, you should have HBO GO–the app that serves up everything HBO is cooking. But is this a full course meal or just another take-out dinner? HBO GO is available on a number of platforms, including apps for desktop browsers, set-top boxes, and game consoles. We’ll focus on [...]
Do you need some TV on your mobile device? Are you overwhelmed by all that unknown online TV programming, or hesitant to shell out for Netflix or Amazon Prime? Crackle may be the answer. In addition to providing a sleek website portal for free movies and television shows, Crackle has developed service for Smart TVs [...]
A Really Great App, Poorly Executed Even before I tested Can I Stream It?, its developer, Urban Pixels, won points from me for the app name. Sure, Can I Stream It? (CISI) won’t be easily verbified like Googling or Facebooking, but it lets you know what the app does: type in the name of a [...]
In May 2011 it was announced that, for the first time in 20 years, TV ownership in the United States had dropped. The Nielson Company reprted that the percentage of American households that own a set dropped from 98.9% to 96.7%. While this is not a huge drop percentage wise, and homes with TV’s still [...]
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