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Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan
Netflix’s ad-free plans will start at $15.49 per month instead.
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Netflix Releases bpftop: An eBPF-Based Application Monitor
Keep a real-time eye on running your eBPF programs with open source bpftop.
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From ‘Suits’ To Nuts, Streaming Residuals Explained
About six weeks after the Writers Guild of America went on strike for the first time in more than 15 years, eight seasons of Suits landed on Netflix.
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Last chance to stream 'Titanic,' 'Top Gun' on Netflix
If you're planning to stay home New Year's Day and stream classic movies on Netflix, you may be out of luck.
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Netflix Built Its Microgenres By Staring Into The American Soul
Tech writer Alexis Madrigal counted 76,897 microgenres, many of which are bizarrely personalized.
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Netflix has nothing to fear from Hulu's sad little content expansion
Netflix is cruising into a hugely ambitious 2014 regarding original content. The glossy political thriller “House of Cards” is getting a new season shot in HD and featuring top shelf cast members like Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey.
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Netflix snags first Golden Globe win as Robin Wright is crowned Best Actress
From online streaming to TV series producers — Netflix is making itself known as a firm to be contended with in the entertainment industry. At no point is this clearer than now, with Netflix snagging its first Golden Globe win as Robin Wright took home the Best Actress (Drama Series) award for House of Cards.
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Netflix users climb to 44 million
TV and film streaming service Netflix said it added four million new users in the last three months of 2013 to give it 44 million international viewers.
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Netflix warns it will provoke customer protest if ISPs violate net neutrality principles
The company sees itself as an ally to ISPs, not an enemy.
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9 Netflix Originals to Look Forward to in 2014
Netflix has more to offer these days than a simple streaming platform for your favorite network shows. Slowly but surely, it’s been growing beyond contracts with networks to introduce its own original content — some of which has been very good — taking its brand name to a whole new place. It’s not the only online streaming platform to make that move either.
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Netflix Renews 'House of Cards' for Season 3
Netflix is sticking with House of Cards. A few weeks ahead of the Emmy-winning drama's sophomore debut on the streaming service, it has been given the official green light for a third season. A Netflix rep confirms to The Hollywood Reporter that House of Cards has received an early renewal, and production is set to begin soon. House of Cards was originally packaged as a two-season pickup, though all parties have spoken optimistically about the show running longer.
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Why Netflix needs you in the fight for net neutrality
When a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the FCC’s net neutrality doctrine earlier this month, Netflix turned hat-in-hand to its user-base.
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Comcast is definitely throttling Netflix, and it's infuriating
Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America, yet inexplicably, also one of the most successful. Two nationwide surveys done by the American Customer Satisfaction Index in 2004 and 2007 showed that “Comcast had the worst customer satisfaction rating of any company or government agency in the country, including the Internal Revenue Service.”
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Verizon seeks payment for carrying Netflix traffic, WSJ reports
According to a Wall Street Journal report tonight, "[t]he online-video service has been at odds with Verizon Communications Inc. and other broadband providers for months over how much Netflix streaming content they will carry without being paid additional fees. Now the long simmering conflict has heated up and is slowing Netflix, in particular, on Verizon's fiber-optic FiOS service, where Netflix says its average prime-time speeds dropped by 14% last month."
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Here's why Netflix streaming quality has nosedived over the past few months
Have your Netflix streams been much more laggy or choppy in recent months? If so then you're not alone. As The Wall Street Journal shows, Netflix streaming quality has tanked at multiple major ISPs...
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600,000 People Binge-Watched House of Cards Season 2 on Netflix Last Weekend (NFLX)
The return of 'House of Cards' was met with great acclaim, but just how many people tuned in? While Netflix holds back its numbers, a new study may shed some light. - Brett Gold - The Business
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What’s Wrong with My Streaming Movie?
The FCC wants to force ISPs to show whether delays are due to unavoidable congestion or created to extract fees from content providers.
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Comcast, Netflix Ink Deal to Improve Streaming Speeds
After rumors emerged this weekend, Netflix and Comcast on Sunday confirmed a deal that will provide Comcast's U.S. customers with access to Netflix's high-quality video streams.
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Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete
In recent months, the nation's largest residential Internet service providers have been demanding payment to deliver Netflix traffic to their own customers. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix has agreed to the demands of the nation's largest broadband provider, Comcast. The change represents a fundamental shift in power in the Internet economy that threatens to undermine the competitive market structure that have served Internet users so well for the past two decades.
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Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious 'Drone 2 Home' video
Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination. Dug up by Hacking Netflix, the Drone 2 Home demo video imagines Netflix's famous red envelopes being delivered by quadcopter - wherever you may be (camping, in the office, in the bathroom - wherever).
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