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Tag: netflix

01 Feb

Redbox breaks deal with Warner Bros. due to 56-day waiting period

Warner Brothers has been trying its hardest to get customers to buy the DVDs of their new releases. Yet with the dawn of services like Netflix and Redbox suddenly customers didn’t need to buy DVD’s. This caused Warner Brothers to impose a 28 day delay for movies to appear in your local Redbox kiosk and [...]

13 Dec

Insider says Verizon ‘Very Serious’ About Making Bid for Netflix

Investment banker Porter Bibb said something very interesting on Bloomberg TV yesterday. When asked he said that Verizon may soon start a bidding war to try and purchase Netflix. Bibb, who advises media companies (including Verizon), said that he is “hearing rumblings from inside Verizon that they are very serious about either Netflix or something [...]

15 Nov

Netflix interface redesigned for Android tablets, iPad soon to get the same

We were graced with an improved Netflix interface for both the Kindle Fire and Nook tablet, but now it seems that new interface is coming to all Android tablets. According to Netflix the redesign “makes browsing and instantly watching unlimited TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix better than ever.”  The new interface puts titles available to watch instantly [...]

07 Nov

Netflix, MGM sign a multi-year streaming deal

As you all know, Netflix has had some trouble recently following a price hike and splitting streaming and regular DVD by mail service into two different companies. This caused Netflix stock to plummet and even caused many subscribers to part ways with the company, but a sliver of good has finally come to Netflix after [...]

10 Oct

Netflix kills Qwikster before it has time to catch its breath

After Netflix has angered almost every single one of its customers they announced something interesting on their blog today. Reed Hastings has posted that they will not be launching Qwikster as originally planed. DVD and Streaming will still exist on the Netflix website under the name Netflix. It seems that Reed has finally realized that [...]