Posts Tagged with ‘netflix’

Today in Yahoo’s headquarters the management of the company has presented to journalists their plan to revamp some of Yahoo properties with a focus on adding third-party content. The idea is that such content will make Yahoo more of a destination to users and will improve the situation where visitors use Yahoo as a springboard to jump to other sites in virtually no time.
The sites to experience the redesign include Yahoo homepage, Search page, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Music, and Yahoo [...]

With all of the increased competition coming from Apple these days, Netflix seems to have a strategy for 2008 that will move the movie rental service beyond serving DVDs through mailboxes across America.
Perhaps it is because of the modern-day format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray that Netflix is now looking to expand the ways consumers can access its library of video entertainment. Whatever it is, it will not only save movie lovers a trip to the store, but also [...]

The original intent of the Apple TV set-top box was to make it easier for anyone to transfer media files from their PC to their television, which is an idea that seems to have been somewhat accepted by consumers although the interface still presents some problems to users.
Now, to make it even easier to watch movies on the AppleTV, Apple today announced a new software update for the devices which will add support for the new iTunes Movie Rental [...]

Back in October I did a review of the AdaptiveBlu's Smartlinks widgets here on Profy. Back then I found the service to have great potential and evidently I was correct. Alex Iskold and the team at Adaptive have expanded the capability and depth of the widgets, which are even now being applied at a rather viral rate by bloggers and site owners. While not a complex tool, Smartlinks is proving that not every great innovation has to be [...]

Not a week has passed since I assembled a list of predictions for 2008 for your amusement, and already we find two well-known corporate entities deliver an official press release proving one postulation to be quite on-target.
Indeed, both Netflix and LG have teamed together to form a sort of digital download alliance, giving something of a morsel of credence to the article published here in Profy last Saturday. The arrangement the two partners in cinematic deliverance [...]

The movie rental business was revolutionized by the launch of Netflix and its online monthly rental subscription service that eliminated trips to the store, late fees, as well as a lot of business for the once mega-popular Blockbuster chain of stores. It even led Blockbuster to follow suit, however unsuccessful the attempt was, just to fight to stay in business.
Now, Paperspine is a new online venture that is aiming to transform the same successful subscription model used by Netflix into [...]

An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films.
Why interesting? Why predictable?
Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great catalogues of titles of all genres, a la Netflix (albeit operated entirely over the Internet), as it would require one to perform fewer functions to enjoy items [...]

Ever since Netflix came onto the scene back in 1999, Blockbuster has been feeling the heat to catch up with the changing times. No longer would people put up with the insanely-high late charges or even trips to the store to rent a movie. Netflix brought it all to the web with no time restrictions or motions towards the car.
Since then, Blockbuster has tried eliminating late fees and its own online service with Total Access, but all of this still [...]

There are some days when I have to buy into the idea posed by a recent commenter that Web 2.0 is a joke. Not everything needs to be online, but there are some folks who apparently think everything from writing letters to blowing your nose needs to be 2.0-enabled. Apparently, this was the driving force behind BookSwim, which is positioning itself as a Netflix-type service for books.
BookSwim follows a similar pricing structure to Netflix's, with 150,000 titles available 3 at [...]