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BBC planning Netflix-style service for US
The BBC is planning to launch a subscription-based video streaming service in the United States. BBC director general Tony Hall said he wanted to "try out businesses that go direct to the public" to boost the income of BBC Worldwide. The new service, which could launch in 2016, will not affect agreements with other services such as Amazon and Hulu. One expert told BBC News the service would probably appeal to a "niche" audience.
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Netflix is just too powerful for cable companies to snub — as much as they want to
There has recently been a shift in tone by major cable companies when they talk about their relationship with Netflix. Cable executives seem to have woken up to the fact that their licensing deals with Netflix bolster the catalog of a company that could do serious damage to their business. James Murdoch, who heads 21st Century Fox, said politely that his thinking on the subject was “evolving” — and not in Netflix’s favor.
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AT&T blasts cable mergers, says cable companies should compete instead
AT&T, which just completed a $48.5 billion purchase of rival DirecTV, is now really worried that cable companies are merging too often and not competing against each other. Cable companies are coordinating and could end up acting as "a single national cable company," AT&T claimed.
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Every type of tech product has gotten cheaper over the last two decades — except for one
Technological innovation is great for consumers. As technology gets more advanced, prices drop and products get better. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks prices for broad categories of goods over time. As this chart of prices for the last 18 years shows, prices have dropped dramatically in almost every tech sector. The drop in computer hardware is particularly steep. The one exception? Cable, satellite TV, and radio service.
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Ratings Free Fall, Cord Cutting Leads to ESPN Job Cuts
With sports content and ESPN a primary reason for soaring cable bills -- and the rise in so-called "skinny bundles" for consumers looking to avoid these costs -- ESPN is understandably nervous. ESPN has lost 3.2 million viewers over the last year as consumers continue to scale back or cut their cable TV packages in the face of relentless price hikes. As such, the network has been engaging in "belt tightening measures" to counter the losses.
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TV Dinners
25 Shows to binge-watch this Thanksgiving weekend.
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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts on why he thinks people hate cable companies
Why do people hate cable companies? If you ask 100 different people you’ll get 100 different answers, but there will undoubtedly be a few common threads that run through the vast majority of them. Poor customer service will likely be somewhere near the top of the list. While just about every major cable company in the country has acknowledged customer care issues to some degree, progress in this area is painfully slow and cable companies are regularly at...
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David Fincher, Charlize Theron Team for 'Mindhunter' Netflix Series
House of Cards creator David Fincher, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Originally developed at HBO via Fox 21, the project hails from Fincher and Charlize Theron's Denver and Delilah banner. Joe Penhall (The Road) will pen the script for Netflix, with Fincher and Theron on board to executive produce. The drama is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshanker.
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Here’s what’s coming to Netflix in January
Netflix has already declared its intentions to hold you captive—figuratively speaking, of course, because Skynet is not yet a thing—in 2016 with twice as much original content for your viewing (and world-eschewing) pleasure. Now the streaming giant has announced the other stuff you can watch online beginning in January. The movie titles include multiple Bring It On sequels and Meet The [blank] movies, as well as Catwoman and Constantine...
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Netflix, DreamWorks Animation Expand Streaming Deal
Netflix is planning to launch several new DWA series in 2016, including a reimagining of 1980s sci-fi cartoon 'Voltron' and 'Trollhunters,' a fantasy series from Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro. Netflix has expanded its multi-year distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation, scooping up global rights, outside China, to several new DWA original series.
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Sling TV Adds ESPN3 to its Lineup
Dish Network’s online skinny TV bundle, Sling TV, has added ESPN3 to its channel lineup. Sling TV which was announced at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, used this year’s CES session to unveil some new features.
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Netflix's Utopian Plan to Conquer the World
Netflix’s New Year’s resolution for 2016 was to become truly global, and it pretty much fulfilled the goal before the year was even a week old. As Reed Hastings, the company’s chief executive, was giving his keynote address at CES, Netflix flipped the switch on 130 countries. Netflix is now worldwide, with China being the only notable exception.
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Netflix Vows to Shut Down Proxy Users Who Bypass Country Restrictions
Netflix, which now offers streaming service in some 190 nations, says it's going to bring the hammer down on people who circumvent country-based content licensing restrictions using proxies or "unb...
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Netflix to spend $6 billion on content this year. Six. Billion.
Netflix has waded into the “Too Much TV” debate. The streaming company’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos tackled the issue during the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Pasadena on Sunday morning. “Is there too much TV?” Sarandos asked, then coyly added, “I’ll pause for a second,” knowing reporters would want to get this next part: “We don’t think there’s too much TV. And if there is too much TV, someone else is going to have...
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Report: Hulu may be getting rid of next-day streaming
The one advantage Hulu has over the majority of its streaming competitors is the offer of next-day streaming for certain programming. That may be going away, however, according to a new report out of the Wall Street Journal. Time Warner is reportedly looking to buy 25 percent of Hulu's stock in an attempt to prevent the service from being able to stream current seasons of network and premium television. The company is concerned that having access...
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AT&T will start selling you cable TV over the Internet
AT&T is going "over the top" with television. In the fourth quarter of this year, AT&T will start selling cable-like bundles of TV to people across the country through a new app. Subscribers won't need an AT&T wireless phone or an AT&T broadband connection at home. It'll be like Netflix -- download the app, sign up, type in a credit card number, and start streaming a TV show. "It is an Internet-delivered service," AT&T Entertainment Group CEO John Stankey said in a phone interview.
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BBC AMERICA’s Award-Winning DoctorWho Returns Exclusively to Amazon’s Prime Video
Today, Amazon and BBC Worldwide North America announced a multi-year content licensing agreement to make Prime Video the exclusive U.S. subscription streaming home for the award-winning series Doctor Who
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How Vizio and Google radically reinvented the TV
Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them. McRae is the chief technology officer of Vizio, a company that sells more TVs — and with them, remotes — than any other company in America. And he thinks remote controls are very, very stupid. "I can’t believe we have rubber buttons and a plastic housing with double-A batteries," he says. "We’re navigating from remotes that were invented in the 1950s. That needs to be dynamited."
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Netflix is making videos look like garbage on AT&T and Verizon
If you’ve tried streaming Master of None from your tablet running on Verizon on AT&T, chances are it looked like a big pile of unwatchable pixels. It..
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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World
What happens when every part of an online entertainment empire is engineered to be everything to everyone, all of the time.
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