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Now YouTube is calling out ISPs for crappy streaming video service
YouTube has recently started notifying users that their Internet Service Provider could be the reason for awful video streaming playback. The notifications, first reported by Quartz yesterday, pop up on videos that take an excessive amount of time to load or frequently stop mid-way through playback to buffer.
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Is this the best job ever? Netflix want to pay people to watch TV
It's pretty much our (and surely everyone else's) dream job. Getting paid money to watch TV and movies all day. Netflix is searching for its first 'Tagger' in UK and Ireland, a job that involves getting paid to watch all the streaming services content ahead of everyone else.
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New Zealand ISP admits its free VPN exists just so people can watch Netflix
One of the most frustrating parts of trying to go legit with your movie watching is being restricted by Hollywood's windows and geofences that limit what's available to watch in your area. Of course, a network of third parties provide tools to help users go around and through the blocks, but now an ISP is taking the unusual step of getting directly involved.
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Netflix to FCC: reclassify Comcast and Verizon so they can't choke the internet
Netflix submitted an unusually blunt filing to the FCC that blasts Verizon and Comcast, and says the agency should use its “Title II” power to enforce net neutrality.
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Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa
David Young, Vice President, Verizon Regulatory Affairs recently published a blog post suggesting that Netflix themselves are responsible for the streaming slowdowns Netflix’s customers have been seeing. But his attempt at deception has backfired. He has clearly admitted that Verizon is deliberately constraining capacity from network providers like Level 3 who were chosen by Netflix to deliver video content requested by Verizon’s own paying broadband consumers.
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Netflix is testing a 'privacy mode' for watching guilty pleasures
The feature colloquially referred to as "porn mode" on web browsers is headed to Netflix soon. The company just began testing a new feature on its streaming service called "privacy mode," that won't keep track of what you've watched or use it to come up with new recommendations. That means with the feature enabled, you could watch Dana Carvey's The Master of Disguise without fear of having future recommendations skewed, or loved ones seeing what you've done.
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Netflix Says It Topped 50 Million Subscribers
Netflix surpassed 50 million total members in the second quarter this year, the company said Monday, with international markets fueling growth and the video streaming service experiencing little adverse impact from a price increase for new subscribers.
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HBO Said Valued at $20 Billion by Fox Seeking Netflix Killer
HBO is one of the main reasons, along with rights to sports programming and international content distribution, that Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. (FOXA) offered $85 a share for Time Warner, said a person familiar with the matter. Fox and its advisers value HBO, the home of buzzworthy TV like “Game of Thrones” and “Girls,” at more than $20 billion, the person said. Time Warner said today it rejected the offer from Fox.
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Verizon, Netflix continue net neutrality war of words
Level 3 had its say on how Verizon was slowing Netflix videos, and now Verizon is firing back. At the same time, Netflix lashed out at ISPs for slowing its traffic.
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This Box Can Hold an Entire Netflix
You've probably heard about Netflix peering issues recently, the pissing contest between Netflix and ISPs arguing over who should pay who for what, with us poor binge-watchers caught in the crossfire. But at the heart of all the arguments is mundane yet spectacular piece of hardware. An unassuming box that holds approximately one Netflix.
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Netflix Signs Peering Deal With AT&T to Reduce Buffering
Netflix has reached an agreement with AT&T to give its streaming service direct access to AT&T's network, with the goal of reducing buffering when subscribers watch shows like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. The so-called peering arrangement went into effect on Tuesday, said two people with knowledge of the situation, who asked not to be named because an announcement isn't planed. The sources declined to provide financial terms of the deal.
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Netflix CEO: We Surpassed HBO in Subscriber Revenue, Reached 'Milestone'
With 50 million streaming customers, Netflix now generates more revenue from subscriptions than its premium cable network rival HBO.
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Will Arnett: More 'Arrested Development' Is Coming to Netflix
Today's Carson Daly saved the best topic for last during his interview with Arrested Development's Will Arnett, who appeared on the morning show on Thursday to tout Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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The Netflix of Everything: Why Companies Don’t Want You Making Decisions
Netflix, as you may have heard, is great. A digital economy of scale allows us to pay a ridiculously low price for an ocean of streaming video that we could never hope to watch in all the years we might live, and in return we typically get frustrated by moderate price increases and the recent removal of 24. We keep our subscription through thick and thin, largely because it would be a slight inconvenience to cancel it.
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Netflix's Orange is the New Black got pirated more than 60 million times
Netflix’s prison drama Orange is the New Black is resonating with file sharers worldwide, but the streaming company is still trailing traditional broadcasters when it comes to piracy levels.
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Netflix Petitions FCC to Block Comcast Time Warner Cable Merger
Netflix has been one of the most vocal proponents of net neutrality, and now, the video streaming company is taking its fight straight to the top. On Tuesday, the company filed a Petition to Deny document to the FCC, asking the government body to block the merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, two of the country’s largest internet service providers.
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The inside story of how Netflix came to pay Comcast for internet traffic
Netflix hand-delivered 256 pages (pdf) to the US government this week arguing that Comcast shouldn’t be allowed to acquire Time Warner Cable. “The proposed merger puts at risk the end-to-end principle that has characterized the internet and been a key driver in the creation of the most important communication platform in history,” Netflix’s lawyers wrote.
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Slow Comcast speeds were costing Netflix customers
Why did Netflix pay Comcast to stream its videos faster? Because Netflix was losing customers.
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Coming to Netflix in September: Fall TV shows and 30-plus movie titles
The list of September additions to Netflix Instant is highlighted by the fall TV season. The streaming service will offer recent seasons of several popular shows including "New Girl," "Parks and Recreation" and "The Walking Dead." Of course, movies will be added as well. There is the good ("Chinatown"), the bad ("Anaconda") and the awful ("Elizabethtown").
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'Australia tax' and Foxtel monopoly mean consumers pay 400 per cent more for digital programs
Australians are paying up to 400 per cent more than viewers in the US and UK to watch popular digital programs, consumer group Choice says. Choice said the mark-up on Foxtel for programs like Orange Is The New Black and The Walking Dead is between 300 and 400 per cent more than accessing the programs on the US streaming-service Netflix.
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