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Forget the Academy's Best Films, Netflix Should Reward the Worst

Jason Notte | Posted 03.09.2009 | Entertainment

But wasn't the whole point of Netflix and every other me-based entertainment platform to help people avoid the snickering video store clerks? Hasn't bad taste become every American's basic human right?

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Netflix CEO To Obama: Don't Cap My Pay, Raise My Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Ceo Salary Cap, Netflix, Reed Hastings, Obama Pay Cap, Netflix Ceo Taxes, Reed Hastings Taxes, Media News

Reed Hastings, CEO of DVD-delivery company Netflix, isn't a fan of President Obama's decision to put caps on executive compensation. Hastings, of cou...

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DVDs: To BluRay Or Not To BluRay?

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jenny McCarthy, Bluray, Nicolas Cage, Shia LaBeouf, Dvds, Netflix, Entertainment News

Let me take another stab at laying out what I think about BluRay, how studios should approach it, who it's right for and a rundown of some recent titles.

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Is the Long Tail Shorter Than We Thought?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Longtail, Newmedia, Art, Economics, Anderson, Distribution, Digital, Web, Media, Music, Obscure Culture, New Media, Netflix, zip.ca, Long Tail Theory, Media News

If everyone can cheaply produce media -- music, text, video, sound, and photos -- then much of it is going to be of little interest to most of us.

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Blockbusters and Publishing: The Pareto Principle vs. Netflix

Richard Spilman | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Book Publishing, Expresso Book Machine, Technology, Print on Demand, Best-Sellers, Blockbusters, Ebooks, Netflix, Business News

Rather than continuing to be narrow and blockbuster focused, publishing in the not too distant future will have to broaden its scope.

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LG HDTVs To Stream Netflix Videos Directly

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 02.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Netflix, Netflix Direct to TV, Netflix Watch Instantly, Netflix LG, Lg, LG HDTV, Media News

NEW YORK — Netflix Inc. has come up with another way to get movies to people without sending DVDs in the mail. In a partnership announced Monda...

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Madagascar Earns $63.5 Million at Box Office: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 10, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Dreamworks, Role Models, Mgm, Movie, Facebook, Mediabytes, Movies, Blockbuster, Box Office, Apple, Shelly Palmer, Madagascar, Escape 2 Africa, Rumors, Youtube, Britney Spears, Media News, Netflix, Set Top Box, Myspace, Paramount, Media News

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" took home the top spot at the Box Office this week. The DreamWorks-Paramount production took in $63.5 million at 4,056...

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Obama Hits Primetime, Daily Show: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 30, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Tivo, Daily Show, Microsoft, Paul McCartney, Ad, Mediabytes, Jonh Lennon, Openid, Television, Commercial, Watch Instantly, Shelly Palmer, Barack Obama, Primetime, Dvr, Infomercial, The Beatles, Media News, Rock Band, Netflix, Media News

Barack Obama spent roughly $4 million dollars on 30 minutes of primetime ad space last night. The commercial, which aired on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox an...

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Netflix, TiVo Partner To Beam Movies To TVs

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 11.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Netflix TiVo, Netflix, Tivo, Media News

SAN FRANCISCO — Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes...

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Oprah Endorses Amazon's Kindle: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 27, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Oprah, Budget Cuts, Microsoft, Silverlight, Mediabytes, Cell Phone, Steamboat Ventures, Shelly Palmer, Watch Instantly, Kindle, Dan Beldy, ABC News, Fighter Jet, Media News, Netflix, Cox, Media News

Dan Beldy, Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures told me at lunch that he is thinking about putting together a consortium to lease their own fight...

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Netflix Finally Brings "Watch Instantly" Tech To Macs... Via Microsoft Software

Engadget | Joshua Topolsky | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft, Silverlight, Computers, Netflix Watch Instantly, Netflix, Netflix Watch Instantly for Mac, Business News

In a move that seemed like it would never, ever, ever happen, Netflix has finally managed to bring its streaming video technology (and decent library)...

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Dow Nears 5 Year Low: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 23, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Blackberry, Economy, Streaming, Samsung, Storm, Low, Mediabytes, Movies, Dow Jones, Amazon, Imeem, Shelly Palmer, Profit, Netflix, Media News, Comcast, Rim, Docsis 3.0, Media News

Yesterday the Dow Jones closed at 8519, near its five year low. The story did not make the front page of the New York Times nor the evening news. Fo...

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Obama Would Create Cabinet Level Technology Officer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Shelly Palmer, Circuit City, Cabinet, Technology Chief, Netflix, Media News, Lala, Mediabytes, President, Election, Media News

If elected President, Barack Obama would create the first-ever Cabinet level Chief Technology Officer. Obama thinks that the US is not doing nearly ...

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Life Cycle: The Birth and Death of Your Bootleg DVDs

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Muggles, Banned, Polycarbonate, Bootleg, Green, Titanic, Aluminum, Co2, Dvds, Lord Voldemort, Dvd, Green Living, #7, Rihanna, Fda, Bisphenol-A, Mother Earth, Environment, Waste, Bpa, Plastic, Carbon Dioxide, Sarah Smarsh, Netflix, Harry Potter, Mia, Simran Sethi, Green News

Your cinematic experience leaves its mark not only on your heart, but on the planet.

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Netflix Shipping Delays Caused By Faulty Technology

Epicenter | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Netflix Shipping Problem, Netflix Shipping Delay, Netflix Outage, Netflix, Technology, NFLX, Netflix Shipping, Hackers, Business News

Not a great week for major digital services. Gmail went down -- briefly -- earlier this week and caused a commotion among some of the more frequent em...

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Product Service Systems: One You Already Know and One You Need to Know About

Collin Dunn | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, DVD Rentals, Netflix, Green Living, Movies, Green News

I'm a huge fan of the "Product Service System," better known to some as PSS. Though the name is easy to trip over, the concept is brilliant: rather th...

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Downloading A Movie Seems More Eco-Friendly...

Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Netflix, Downloading Movies, Pollution, Movies, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Americans think downloading movies is "far more convenient and eco-friendly than taking a drive out to the local video store," according to survey con...

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Xbox 360, Netflix Streaming Movies Deal

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Xbox 360, Microsoft, Netflix, Netflix Microsoft, Netflix Exbox 360, Netflix Xbox 360 Streaming Movies, Xbox 306 Netflix Deal, Microsoft Netflix Deal, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal annou...

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Outsourcing: You Get What You Pay For

Tom Alderman | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, Service in India, Lou Dobbs, Mccain, Obama, Pet Food, Recession, Outsourcing, Outsourcing to India, John Kerry, Made in China, Made in America, Mandatory Service Disclosure, Global Competition, Pasadena City Council, Netflix, Business News

When a business transfers important control to someone else's hands on the other side of the planet, bad things happen, they say -- like compliance and fraud issues.

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TV Upfronts, CNET, and the Facebook, MySpace and Google Data Wars

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Riaa, Cnet, Google, Youtube, Yahoo, Cablevision, Facebook, Les Moonves, Wnbc, Netflix, Myspace, Cbs, Nbc, Media News

The US Attorney's Office is using a Terms of Service violation as a way to prosecute. Think of that precedent. How many of us read ToS agreements anyway?

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Is Best Buy Buying Netflix?

Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Netflix, Best Buy, Business News

A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% higher on high volume. Would this make sense? Only if Best...

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Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Reed Hastings, Netflix, Blockbuster, Silicon Valley, Business News

Netflix announces its first-quarter earnings after the bell Monday, April, 21. With a spate of upgrades by analysts during Q1, Netflix is expected to ...

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Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Reed Hastings, Netflix, Blockbuster, Silicon Valley, Business News

Netflix announces its first-quarter earnings after the bell Monday, April, 21. With a spate of upgrades by analysts during Q1, Netflix is expected to ...

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Blockbuster's Questionable Bid for Circuit City

Scott Anthony | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Netflix, Circuit City, Blockbuster Bid, Blockbuster, Best Buy, Blockbuster Circuit City Deal, Blockbuster Circuit City Bid, Business News

Combining Blockbuster and Circuit City seems like a pretty bad idea. Each company has distinct strategic issues to address. A merger could very well distract them from the task at hand at the exact worst time.

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