It’s been a pretty bad 12 months for Netflix. Ever since the video juggernaut’s hefty price increase last year, they’ve been trying to make a comeback. First, the movie rental company split its streaming and DVD services entirely, and then they stitched them back together and promised no more price increases for the foreseeable future. […]
Netflix announces one more solution to the complaint that “there’s nothing intelligent to watch on TV” with the addition of streaming TEDTalks. The TED conferences are private events organized by the nonprofit organization Sapling Foundation. Entry fees are as high as $7,500 to attend. TED conferences started in 1984 to bring together people from three […]
Netflix, famous for keeping the U.S. postal system relevant with their red envelopes of rental DVDs, continues the struggle to provide content in digital streaming format. Tuesday’s multi-year deal with the Weinstein Company guarantees them streaming rights to such movies as The Artist, a silent film nominated for 10 Academy Awards. The Weinstein releases will […]
Congratulations on getting your new Android device! Pretty awesome, isn’t it? Except something seems missing. It’s cool and all, but why isn’t it doing all that awesome stuff like in the commercials? You need to download some apps, but with over 380,000 apps to choose from, that can be a daunting task. Fortunately, Techcitement is […]
On Friday, November 18, Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against online music streaming website Grooveshark, suing the site for $17 billion worth of copyright infringement and damages. Grooveshark has had several skirmishes with copyright infringement and lawsuit since the site was founded in 2007, but none that equal the lawsuit filed by Universal. Grooveshark […]
Earlier today, Techcitement published part one of what some of our staff is thankful for. More of the staff has their say on what tech items and ideas make them particularly happy in this second installment. Paul Hurwitz: Dropbox and LogMeIn I’m grateful for LogMeIn and LogMeInRescue for allowing me to do the same amount […]
Last week, CBS CEO Les Moonves gave us an idea of his company’s attitude toward the increasing demand for online streaming of television content. On the subject of online content, Moonves had this to say (via Engadget): We — frankly, we don’t believe in them. We’re not going to go out and we’ve sort of […]
Almost immediately after Google TV’s software update added the ability to download and install custom applications, a major new capability appears by way of a Plex client. For those unfamiliar, Plex is an excellent, full-featured media server and organizer. Initially, it was developed for Mac OS X, but a Windows version is now available as […]
The New York Times ran a fairly comprehensive story recently about Netflix’s recent troubles. Writers Nick Wingfield and Brian Stelter went over the quick introduction and sudden abandonment of Qwikster, as well as July’s 60 percent price hike. I think they pinpointed exactly why people reacted so differently than CEO Reed Hastings and the Netflix […]
For those of us content to get our entertainment media from our PCs, the last few years have brought a wealth of options. Photos, music, movies, TV, whether downloaded or streamed, it’s virtually impossible to say there’s nothing on anymore. Unfortunately, the PC entertainment experience often leaves something to be desired when it compared to […]
