This Netflix chart could be the futureBy Mark Rollins - 06/04/2010 2:26:22 PM |
What you see here is a slide from a corporate slideshow. As you can see, it shows that DVDs by mail will drop off after 2014, and completely diminished by 2030. Yes, it is a definite curve, and the question you got to be asking yourself is: "Could this be the future?" ...
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Redbox’s Digital Expansion Has The Snowball’s ChanceBy Steve Anderson - 02/17/2010 2:55:53 AM |

Somewhere, whoever's currently running Blockbuster just broke out in a cold sweat because Redbox is getting IDEAS, and they're not very friendly ones. Seems that Redbox is looking into the idea of expanding its offerings to include digital downloads, allowing customers to download movies from central Redbox kiosks to customers' own media like SD cards, USB ...
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Ten Percent of All Mobile Traffic Goes To YouTubeBy Steve Anderson - 02/10/2010 3:24:56 AM |

Seriously. TEN PERCENT. Let that roll around in your head-meat for a minute. One in ten bits, bytes, megs and gigs goes straight to YouTube. That means whenever you see someone surfing with their mobile, there's one chance in ten they're on YouTube right now. Weird incredulous statistics aside, what this means is twofold. One, home theater is ...
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1080p Streaming At Netflix? Not This Year.By Steve Anderson - 02/10/2010 3:24:34 AM |

For those of you who were hoping that Netflix might begin streaming its roughly one in five streamable titles in full 1080p high-def this year, sorry, but no. It'll be 720p for the rest of the year at least, so if you're streaming to a 720p television anyway, cheer up! You won't be missing much ...
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Streaming Bigger Than Anyone SuspectedBy Steve Anderson - 02/09/2010 4:06:39 AM |

We've been keeping tabs on the various facets of the streaming war for some time now, folks, and the interesting thing here is that it's actually much, MUCH bigger than anyone wanted to believe. We've seen players come and players go and alliances get forged, but what we really haven't had a look at yet is ...
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