Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said yesterday that he has no plans to investigate Netflix for throttling its own video streams, despite Netflix's critics calling for an investigation. Netflix acknowledged last week that it reduces video quality on most mobile networks to help users stay under their data caps and avoid data overage charges. Opponents of net neutrality rules that prevent Internet...

In the race to bring TV viewers the latest and greatest, Netflix is now rolling out what many are calling the next technological wonder: high dynamic range or HDR video. For those who thought it couldn't get better than high definition TV, brace yourself. Netflix claims the new format gives customers "an even more visually stunning experience." By providing more contrast between light and dark images, HDR creates a more vibrant, realistic picture.

Netflix just got a brand new and extremely powerful competitor: Amazon. On Sunday, the company launched a new, stand-alone service called Prime Video that will allow users to sign up for a monthly video streaming service for just $8.99. That price is one dollar more than Netflix's lowest plan ($7.99) which lacks HD video, but a full dollar less than Netflix's popular Standard plan (HD included), which goes for $9.99.

After signing up to Spotify several years ago one of my first tasks was to begin hand-crafting playlists of the thousands of 1980s and 1990s dance tracks I had previously bought on vinyl. Once lovingly stacked and indexed in a spare room, these much-loved relics of a bygone era are now gathering dust in the attic, probably never to be played again. Or at least that’s what I thought.

Many Canadians are enraged by Netflix's declared war on cross-border watchers, who skirt the company's rules by sneaking across virtual borders to stream Netflix shows and movies restricted to other countries. Sometimes it's hard to be satisfied with Netflix Canada's library when our American neighbours have, it's estimated, access to almost double the content. Since mid-January, the streaming service giant is cracking down on border hoppers by blocking access to foreign content.

If you’re a long-time Netflix user living in the United States, there’s a storm a-coming that will increase your monthly subscription rate by two whole dollars. It’s part of Netflix rolling back all [...]

Netflix is a special company – the type of company that creates its own market space, rather than competing in an existing one. Netflix burst onto the scene in 1998 with a mail-delivery movie rental service that soon buried legacy rivals like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. In 2007, Netflix began to offer streaming video, essentially inventing the modern subscription streaming service. Now Netflix is in an interesting spot. Its movie rental triumphs are ancient history...

Joel Kinnaman has been tapped to headline Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi series Altered Carbon. The 10-part series is based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk noir sci-fi novel set in the 25th century, when the human mind can be digitized and the soul transferred from one body to the next. The RoboCop and Suicide Squad actor will play Takeshi Kovacs (the character is of Japanese and Eastern European descent and a native of Harlan's World in the novels), a former elite...

Video-on-demand providers such as Netflix Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.’s iTunes would be forced to dedicate at least a fifth of their catalogs to European content, under proposals published Wednesday. The European Commission is seeking to bolster the EU’s film and TV industry with the 20 percent quota as part of a wider overhaul of the EU’s broadcasting rules presented in Brussels.

If you were a kid whose mom encouraged you to "go outside and play" when you were much more comfortable playing video games in the air-conditioned indoors, then you're going to have some flashbacks courtesy of Netflix this June. The streaming service has uploaded a classic cartoon remake with Voltron: Legendary Defender, lets you catch the newest Pokémon movie, and brings Twitch's favorite artist from the small screen…to the small screen.

Sometimes you just need someone to look you in the eye and, with the knowing tone of a true confidant, tell you: “I said, biiiiiiiitch.” Now you always can: Comedy Central has launched a comprehensive online archive for Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele’s much-missed sketch series Key & Peele. The new site, which can be found at cc.com/keyandpeele (among other places — more on that later), bills itself as “the authoritatively and unequivocally complete K&P destination.” And they’re not kidding around...

Cable operator plans to integrate subscription-streaming service with X1 platform later in 2016. Comcast and Netflix, which in past years have engaged in a public fight over bandwidth issues, have reached a deal that will make Netflix’s streaming-video service available to the cable giant’s X1 set-top platform later in 2016. “Comcast and Netflix have reached an agreement to incorporate Netflix into X1, providing seamless access to the great content offered by both companies,”...

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling has determined that sharing passwords counts as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Netflix's price increases scared people away from the streaming service, and the volume of unsubscribes surprised Jim Cramer. "Something happened here where people decided that content wasn't worth paying for," Cramer said Tuesday on "Squawk on the Street" , a day after the company reported that it missed its subscriber goal in the second quarter. "I would never in a million years say I'm not paying the additional couple [of dollars]." The entertainment-streaming service missed its subscriber goal of 2.5 million in the second quarter.

Netflix is cheaper than cable, but that alone doesn’t mean much. After all, a service is only worthwhile when you use it. So rather than asking how much Netflix costs relative to cable, we should instead ask: how much does Netflix cost per hour of content viewed, and how does that compare with cable’s figures? That’s math is pretty simple – so we went ahead and did it. We know from Netflix’s own numbers that Netflix’s more than 75 million users stream 125 million hours of content every day.

Arrested Development is “very close” to getting a fifth season on Netflix, executive producer Mitch Hurwitz said at the Television Critics Association press tour on Wednesday. Seven years after being canceled, the Fox comedy was resurrected on Netflix for a 15-episode fourth season, which reunited the whole Bluth family in 2013 – Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, and Jeffrey Tambor, among them. After the fourth season earned critical acclaim and three Emmy nominations, the question remained when the Bluths would be back for a fifth round.

We witnessed sad sharks, baby bison in danger, and more puffins than any one person deserves to see in a day—and we've determined which stream should occupy your 24 hours.

The boss of Netflix has said the streaming service would be “dumb” not to commission a second season of Stranger Things, the 80s supernatural thriller that has proved the hit of the summer. The show’s creators have not revealed whether they have written a second season, but have hinted that they plan an even darker follow-up to the eight-parter, which follows a group of children navigating shadowy government plots and terrifying monsters in search of a missing friend. Critics have been taken with the young cast of relative unknowns, Winona Ryder’s performance as desperate mother Joyce, and the 80s soundtrack.

Hulu inks deal with Yahoo to provide free, ad-supported episodes of TV shows. Hulu is moving to an all-subscription model, eliminating the ad-supported service that has let users watch thousands of TV episodes in the nine years since it first launched. At the same time, Hulu has expanded its distribution deal with Yahoo, which is launching Yahoo View, a new ad-supported TV-streaming site with the five most recent episodes of shows from ABC, NBC and Fox — eight days after original air date — as well as other network shows, day-after clips, and full seasons...

Good luck catching up now! If you’ve found yourself overwhelmed by the staggering amount of television piling up in your queue, rest assured: There is so, so much more coming. FX president John Landgraf kicked off the network’s August 9 press day at the Television Critics Association summer tour with a fascinating — if alarming — presentation revealing FX’s internal research on just how many television shows are out there.