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Maybe This Is Why Blockbuster Is Dying

When your CEO thinks popping the Netflix disc in the Wii is more difficult than driving to a store to physically rent a disc (and then returning said disc), that might be a sign that your company isn’t exactly forward-thinking. According to this interview with CEO Jim Keyes over at Fast Company, he’d much rather…

Movies Adam Frucci

How Much Video Can You Actually Stream With AT&T’s New Data Plans?

We’re going to tell you the punchline right away: Run, don’t walk, to get your iPad 3G before the end of the weekend If you want to stream video while on-the-go from sources like Netflix or the ABC Player, or any of the hundreds of sources like them coming down the pike, you will quickly…

Tech News Jim Lanzone - Clicker.com

Netflix’s Plans for the Future

In three words: Stay the course. A recent presentation reveals that Netflix won’t be sidetracked by distributing anything but movies and TV shows (news and sports are out) on more devices while expanding their streaming library is priority one. [BusinessInsider]

Movies Mark Wilson

HomePipe App Streams iTunes to Your Android Phone

HomePipe’s a relatively new cloud-based storage app that’s introduced a new twist: streaming your iTunes music from your Mac or PC to your Android phone. There are a couple of caveats, though. First, it’s not as simple as downloading the app. You’ll need a HomePipe account, which requires you to download some software onto your…

Tech News Brian Barrett

NASA TV Streaming Now Available On iPhone and iPad

If you are into space and have an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or any HTML5/H.264-compatible device, you got lucky: Now you can watch NASA TV in real time. The quality is quite good, as you can see in this capture: This is great. Now I will be able to watch shuttle launches whenever I’m in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Hulu Plus Subscription Service Likely Delayed

According to All Things Digital, that $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service won’t quite make it out the doors in time for the rumored May 24th launch-date. Considering Hulu still hasn’t confirmed that a subscription service is on the cards, it’s not entirely surprising we won’t be seeing anything next Monday. [All Things D] https://gizmodo.com/the-hulu-plus-subscription-10-a-month-to-kill-your-ca-5521657

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hulu Just Got a Lot Awesomer

Hulu might not jump on the increasingly crowded HTML5 video bandwagon anytime soon, but I don’t really care because it’s adding a whole bunch of new features to make Hulu much more awesome. https://gizmodo.com/hulu-says-html5-isnt-ready-yet-5538264 My favorite, actually, is thumbnail previews along the progress bar, so you can see exactly what you’re skimming over when you’re…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Netflix Finally Streaming Video in HD to PCs and Macs, Hurray

It’s a good day to sit around: Netflix is now streaming over half its HD videos to PCs and Macs in HD. If a vid’ll stream in HD to PCs, it’ll say “HD Available,” like this. [Netflix via Dave Zatz]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Streaming Audiobooks Incoming For Macs, PCs and Phones

Enjoying an audiobook may traditionally be a sign that you’re past your prime, but if you’ve got enough technical nous to stream audiobooks on a PC, Mac or phone then it’s not time to start buying incontinence pads just yet. Aspiro Music normally has its finger in the streaming music pie, but this year will…

Books & Comics Kat Hannaford

Roku’s New Netflix Channel Lets You Search and Queue From Your Couch

Roku’s offering a sneak peak of their upcoming Netflix channel redesign, which makes couch potato-browsing even more immersive. Better yet: users will be able to search the Netflix streaming collection and add items directly to their watch instantly queues. The update will be available to all Roku-ers in June via free, automatic software update. Try…

Television Kyle VanHemert

An ABC iPad App That Streams Lost Over 3G Is Almost Here [UPDATED]

ABC’s iPad app was one of the few we tested that flat-out didn’t play video over 3G—unlike Netflix and YouTube, which play degraded video—but Business Insider hears a 3G-compatible version has already been submitted to the App Store. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-3g-test-notes-5528240 This is one of the cases that people using an iPad plus a Verizon MiFi for…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Certain iPad 3G Apps Having Trouble With Video

Launch day jitters or something more? These are the questions circling around the iPad 3G today, as owners of the new tablet are finding video playback is not as “magical” on their device as it is on the wifi version. Initial reports seemed to indicate that it was a problem with the device itself, but…

Tech News Jack Loftus

What’ll Be Left When Apple Closes Lala at the End of the Month? A Gaping Hole

MediaMemo throws more cold water on the idea that Apple shutting down Lala at the end of the month means a streaming iTunes.com is coming anytime soon, though they’re talking to labels right now about a “web-based” iTunes. https://gizmodo.com/does-lalas-shut-down-mean-streaming-itunes-launch-5527957 Apple had been talking to labels about a “locker” service, kind of like what Lala does…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Does Lala’s Shut Down Mean Streaming iTunes Launch?

Reader Aaron Vader has sent us an email announcing that Lala.com will shut down on May 31. If you are a Lala user, your credits will be converted to iTunes credits. Does that mean that streaming iTunes.com would launch soon? It’s hard to say. WWDC 2010 comes right after Lala’s shutdown, but it’s unlikely that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Hulu Plus Subscription: $10 a Month to Kill Your Cable

And it all comes together: Hulu will start testing a $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service as early as May 24, according to the LA Times. Huge. The pressure to make money—extremely significant quantities of it, given the financial demand of producing high quality TV has long given a Hulu pay service the sense of inevitability.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

FreeAgent Theater+ HD Update Combines Hard Drive Streaming with Netflix

After its latest firmware update, available right this instant, Seagate’s set top FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player will deliver Netflix streaming, YouTube, vTuner and Mediafly content. Right, just like some other boxes out there today, but there’s a caveat. Here’s an unsanctioned by Gizmodo hint: Arr! What makes this particular box a bit different than…

Tech News Jack Loftus

An Old Form of Music DRM Is New Again

Music services embedding personal info into the songs you buy as sekret DRM isn’t new. But it could take on a whole new level of relevance once cloud-based music streaming services from Apple or Amazon or Google finally launch. As those three work out deals with the major labels to do a cloud-based music service,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Whoa, the Official Netflix Streaming iPad App

If this leak‘s legit, whoa. Netflix Watch Instantly streaming video on the iPad is one of two video apps we’re desperate for, besides Hulu (also supposedly coming). Potentially, a true killer app. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/hulu-app-coming-to-ipad-5506892 Not many details, but it’s fairly self-explanatory, since we’ve seen Netflix Watch Instantly on lots of other devices, and it seems…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

AT&T and Apple finally allowed iPhone apps to stream video over 3G, but now they’re enacting a new condition: To get approved, Justin.TV’s new iPhone app needed a low quality video stream to downgrade to during periods of network congestion. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-iphone-app-finally-allowed-to-stream-tv-ove-5464089 In other words, video apps will apparently need to be able to adapt to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nintendo Wii Netflix Watch Instantly Discs Arrive Tomorrow

The first batch of Netflix Watch Instantly discs for the Wii have been shipped, so if you already ordered one, you can track its status—some people are slated to get ’em as early as tomorrow. [ Netflix, Thanks tipsters!]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Maybe This Is Why Blockbuster Is Dying

How Much Video Can You Actually Stream With AT&T’s New Data Plans?

Netflix’s Plans for the Future

HomePipe App Streams iTunes to Your Android Phone

NASA TV Streaming Now Available On iPhone and iPad

Hulu Plus Subscription Service Likely Delayed

Hulu Just Got a Lot Awesomer

Netflix Finally Streaming Video in HD to PCs and Macs, Hurray

Streaming Audiobooks Incoming For Macs, PCs and Phones

Roku’s New Netflix Channel Lets You Search and Queue From Your Couch

An ABC iPad App That Streams Lost Over 3G Is Almost Here [UPDATED]

Certain iPad 3G Apps Having Trouble With Video

What’ll Be Left When Apple Closes Lala at the End of the Month? A Gaping Hole

Does Lala’s Shut Down Mean Streaming iTunes Launch?

The Hulu Plus Subscription: $10 a Month to Kill Your Cable

FreeAgent Theater+ HD Update Combines Hard Drive Streaming with Netflix

An Old Form of Music DRM Is New Again

Whoa, the Official Netflix Streaming iPad App

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

Nintendo Wii Netflix Watch Instantly Discs Arrive Tomorrow

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