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Netflix Is Going to Raise Prices for New Users

Bad news: Netflix will be hiking its prices for new subscribers. Per a first quarter letter to shareholders, CEO Reed Hastings says: Our current view is to do a one or two dollar increase, depending on the country, later this quarter for new members only. Hastings added that the $8 rate for existing customers will…

Whether you’re cancelling your trip to SeaWorld or gazing lovingly at that fading picture of yourself posing with Shamu, Blackfish will change the way you think about captive orcas. Watch the documentary and then discuss the controversy in the comments today at noon ET.

How Much Better Is House of Cards in 4K?

Netflix announced at CES that it would begin shooting original series in ultra high-def 4K, and now British site HDTVtest has caught the first glimpse of the streaming giant’s 4K content in the wild. How much more evil does Kevin Spacey look? Here’s what HDTVtest had to say: The opening shot of Frank Underwood (Kevin…

Hulu just scored rights to past seasons of great shows like “Brooklyn Nine Nine” and “The Mindy Project.” The deal includes NBCUniversal-produced shows that usually air on Fox.

The show 24 has left Netflix for the greener pastures of Amazon Instant Video, where it is now exclusively carried. Prime subscribers can stream all eight seasons of the saga of Jack Bauer starting today.

Tesla, Electronica and Aliens — What Could Go Wrong?

We’ve got an exclusive look at the trailer for web movie ETXR, which is like Ziggy Stardust crossed with electronica. Some mad scientists have figured out that one of Tesla’s secret inventions can communicate with aliens — using electronic music! It’s your basic alien rave cult scenario — we’ve all been there, right? From FOX…

Why Netflix Needs To Bring Back Expiration Dates

Sometime in early February, I loaded up Netflix on my PlayStation 3 to watch Captain America: The First Avenger. I planned to re-watch the flick to get ready for its amazing-looking sequel, which hits theaters soon. But as I cycled through titles on My List, I soon realized the action-packed Marvel film was no longer…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has come out with an open letter extolling the virtues of net neutrality because, well duh. Also mentioned is how much Netflix really didn’t want to sign a deal with the devil Comcast, but if everyone’s favorite merger in process goes through, there might not be much of a choice going…

How to Handle Internet Indecision

There are 6,245 restaurants on Seamless in New York City. Sometimes deciding between a roast beef sandwich and a pepperoni pizza is an impossible choice. But this is not an isolated dilemma—the question of what to watch, what to eat, and what to click is indicative of an issue that plagues the whole internet. Unfortunately…

True Detective Finale Crashes HBO GO

Netflix must be really laughing its ass off right now, as everyone trying to watch the season finale of True Detective complain about HBO GO not being available. HBO GO has crashed—it’s been deader than Rust Cohle’s soul for the last three hours. I’ve tried it at least two dozen times—both through my computer and…

Clone Wars‘ final season turns Order 66 into a Hitchcockian thriller

Today, the full run of Clone Wars was released on Netflix, including the entirety of Season Six, which never aired on television. It’s a beautifully executed set of episodes that, despite a few bumps, fills in a lot of details not covered by the prequel films—starting with Order 66. The recaps are divided up into…

Hear All About the Amazing Cinematography of House of Cards

Been watching season two of House of Cards? The answer is yes. So you know how beautiful the cinematography is. In an interview with Go Creative, the Igor Martinovic, the show’s cinematographer tells how he crafted the show’s unique visual style. When watching House of Cards, you may be struck by the precisely composed shots,…

New Netflix Phishing Scam Tricks You Into Calling Fake “Tech Support”

If the screen below has ever popped up as you were supposedly logging into Netflix, we’ve got some bad news for you. No, it’s not your Netflix account—that’s perfectly safe (at least for now). But if you followed the instructions on the screen, you’ve been duped by a new phishing scheme that seems so painfully…

Auto-Pause When You Fall Asleep Is the Best Netflix Hack

Falling asleep while watching Netflix is the worst. Invariably you miss all the meat of whatever you’re watching, and snap awake to the closing credits (or your morning alarm). Ugh. But a bunch of Netflix engineers have a (theoretical) solution: a Fitbit hack that pauses your stream when the wearable senses you’ve fallen asleep. Netflix’s…

Kevin Feige shoots down every Doctor Strange rumor!

Get a much closer look at Godzilla! Plus find out about filming for Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Bryan Singer talks time travel in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Plus another new Game of Thrones teaser. And the team that brought us Sleepy Hollow now presents Matador! Spoilers now! Top image: Godzilla…

Comcast-TWC Would Be a Monopoly, But That Probably Won’t Stop It

The proposed $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Comcast—the nation’s two largest cable and home Internet providers—has once again raised the specter of monopoly control over yet another American utility. Are these fears overblown? Nope! It’s really that bad. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-comcast-time-warner-cable-merger-is-even-worse-1522096469 Would Comcast-TWC Count as a Monopoly? Monopolies aren’t like porn; you can’t just…

The Clone Wars’ final season may finally tie all the prequels together!

The first real trailer for Star Wars: Clone Wars — The Lost Missions has arrived, and holy womprats does it look amazing. So amazing, in fact, I think maybe we should throw out all the prequels and let this be the only pre-New Hope material. Look at all the stuff from the prequels it’s meshing…

How Comcast’s Netflix Bullying Could Cost Us All

Earlier today, Comcast and Netflix announced that they’d reached an agreement to help end stuttery Netflix performance to Comcast subscribers. It’s actually not a breech of net neutrality; it’s a different flavor of trouble and it’s going cost all of us. https://gizmodo.com/report-netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-for-access-to-bro-1529115565 When a U.S. Appeals Court invalidated the FCC’s net neutrality rules, it opened…

Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast For Access to Its Broadband Network

In a landmark deal, Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast for direct access to the company’s broadband system. The announcement comes after months of dispute between Netflix and broadband providers about who should pay for increasing bandwidth loads. If you haven’t been following the streaming wars, here’s the basic gist: As Netflix has grown, an…

Netflix Quality Sucks Because ISPs Won’t Bother Fixing It

Notice your Netflix has had a hell of a time streaming in good quality lately? That’s because the companies that carry its traffic can’t seem to agree who’s supposed to shoulder the cost of passing it along, Ars Technica reports. The argument is three-fold, and it’s a little bit confusing. Here’s what’s up: Cogent is…