Reed Hastings

What’s The Most You’d Pay For Netflix?

Netflix will be raising its price in the not-s0-distant future, CEO Reed Hastings announced yesterday in a letter to shareholders. It’s only going up by a dollar or two, but an increase is an increase. But what’s the most you’d pay for Netflix? To be clear, Hastings said that existing subscribers would get to hang…

Amazon Fire TV‘s voice search is one of its best features, but at launch it only played nice with Amazon stuff. That’s about to change—last week it got support for Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Showtime, and later this year Fire TV is going to work with Netflix, says CEO Reed Hastings.

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 Netflix Makes 3.14 Petabytes of Video Feel Like It’s All for You

There’s a great Netflix feature in Bloomberg Businessweek today, which details how the company delivers its enormous catalog to 36 million customers without a hitch. It’s more than impressive math—it’s almost a miracle. Wrestling with movie studios over rights to the hottest content is only step one of Netflix’s struggle. You see, Netflix’s customers don’t…

Watch Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Mock Miserable Foxconn Workers

Apparently creating a company called “Qwikster” wasn’t the only bad idea Reed Hastings had: in an internal motivational video uncovered by FastCompany, you get a look at the CEO’s idea of humor. Let’s make fun of overworked, unconscious Chinese workers. https://gizmodo.com/qwikster-disappears-like-the-bad-dream-it-was-5848195 The video was produced in 2007, when Netflix was experimenting with a Roku-style hardware…

The Reed Hastings Qwikster Apology Tour Marches On

Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and enthusiastic Qwikster regretist, has made NYT Magazine the latest stop on his grand apology over his company’s unfortunately executed DVD-mailing kissing cousin. He is, again, so very sorry. Hastings cites a miscalculation in the “depth of emotional attachment to Netflix” among his customers for the Qwikster backlash. Which is one…

Netflix Was Surprised You Guys Didn’t Bitch About the Price Hike More

Even though I saw more than my fair share of moans about the Netflix price increase on Twitter and the like, Netflix thinks they got away relatively unscathed. Cue a deluge of further complaints after CEO Reed Hasting’s comments. https://gizmodo.com/netflix-price-hike-tied-to-unexpected-demand-for-those-5821946 Even though their stock took a nose-dive, and Netflix believes they’ll have problems attracting new…

Netflix CEO: Chances of Nintendo Wii Support Are “Excellent”

Without a hint of doubt, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says that chances of Netflix on Nintendo—are “excellent.” Stir that together with October’s confident rumors about forthcoming Netflix support on the Wii and, well, you get it. https://gizmodo.com/netflix-streaming-coming-to-wii-next-naturally-5392160 The quote came in response to an onstage question from AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka, during an interview here at…

Netflix Founder Joins Microsoft Board

Netflix founder Reed Hastings has joined the Microsoft board of directors, indicating a cozy relationship between the two companies. While no actual business deals between the big M and Netflix have been announced, a partnership could benefit them both greatly in the current marketplace. What with TiVo and Amazon joined at the hip with their…