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The three major players in the content streaming arena are Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix. All are battling to get exclusive rights to certain studios' movies or certain networks' TV shows. They hope that exclusive content will entice users to join or stick with their service.
For consumers, exclusive content is not a particularly welcome development, since it means that they may have to subscribe to a number of services, each with its own fees, to gain access to the best movies and TV shows available.
Tech Giants Battle to Control Your Living RoomAmazon's Prime Instant Video service is basically an entertaining add-on to the online retailer's $79-per-year fast shipping service. Prime Instant Videos work on computers and on nearly 200 models of set-top boxes, Internet connected TVs, and Blu-ray players, including the Roku box and Google TV devices.
Netflix charges $8 per month to let you stream advertising-free movies and TV shows on consoles (including the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360), as well as online, on iOS and some Android devices, and on the Apple TV, Roku, and TiVo boxes. Hulu Plus also charges $8 per month and works on as many devices as Netflix does, excluding Apple TV.
Yet in their current form, these streaming services aren't yet ready to replace your cable provider. For one thing, many new movies are unavailable for streaming for at least one month after they're released on DVD. And TV series are often embargoed until a month after the last episode of a season has aired.
Tech Giants Battle to Control Your Living RoomBut if you like reruns and older TV shows, streaming services can be a great supplement to your TV subscription. Cases in point: Netflix and Amazon last week unveiled separate deals to expand their lineups of Disney and ABC series, including Alias and Switched at Birth, plus old episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives, and all episodes of Lost, Brothers & Sisters, and Ugly Betty.
If you don't want to pay increasingly pricey monthly fees for streaming TV and you don't mind watching ads, consider YouTube, which has some interesting plans to shift from its current reliance on user-generated kitten clips to high-quality video. The Google-owned site is set to unveil some 100 channels of original programming from partners such as the Wall Street Journal, Madonna, and Ashton Kutcher. These channels, for which YouTube is reportedly paying producers some $100 million in advance advertising revenue, are set to debut early next year.
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1 Temmuz 2012 Pazar
Reed Between the Lines Season 1 Episode 22 Let's Talk About Game Night
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Reed Between the Lines Season 1 Episode 22 Let's Talk About Game Night, It all gets dicey when Carla and Alex host game night. Meanwhile, a baseball-bat-wielding Alexis puts a hole in a wall in Kaci's room.
Kaci and Alex anticipate attending a father-daughter dance, but plans change when Kaci's biological father unexpectedly arrives. Elsewhere, Keenan's friend develops a crush on Carla.
Psych Season 6 Episode 9 Neil Simon's Lover's Retreat
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Psych Season 6 Episode 9 Neil Simon's Lover's Retreat, Shawn and Juliet's romantic getaway vacation from casework and the SBPD is interrupted when their hotel room is robbed and a dead body surfaces at a nearby winery.
Shawn and Gus hide a witness at a remote commune populated by eccentric intellectuals while they investigate a murder that the witness claims occurred in broad daylight.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 2 Episode 11 Hearth's Warming Eve
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 2 Episode 11 Hearth's Warming Eve, The six friends are honored to put on Canterlot's most important play of the season, the Hearth's Warming Eve's holiday pageant that illustrates how Unicorns, Pegasus and Earth Ponies put aside their differences and founded Equestria.
It's Spike's birthday, and he's thrilled at all the great swag he receives from his friends. However, Spike's appreciation soon turns to greed, along with an all-consuming obsession to hoard everything available. Can the ponies make Spike resist his dragon heart's instincts before he turns into a full-fledged monster?
The High Low Project Season 1 Episode 14 The DeMeo's Dream Family Room
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The High Low Project Season 1 Episode 14 The DeMeo's Dream Family Room, Julia and Billy DeMeo's family room lacks personality. Designer Sabrina Soto designs their dream family room, complete with a $25,000 price tag - but that's not in the DeMeo's budget. Sabrina then recreates the DeMeo's family room, piece by piece, for their $4000 budget.
Sabrina Soto helps the McNaught family surprise their mom, Kathy, with her dream living room for Christmas. First, Sabrina creates a luxury dream design by borrowing from her top design contacts but it cost $30,000. Using her design know how, she then recreates her design, piece by piece for the Mcnaught's $5000 budget.
27 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba
Sony proposes over-the-top TV service
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Sony could be the latest company to try taking on the cable industry with an over-the-top video service. According to The Wall Street Journal, the consumer electronics manufacturer is in talks with media companies about launching a TV-like service that would be delivered to its PlayStation 3 game console and other connected devices.
Sony has approached multiple media companies about the proposal, which would create a bundle of TV channels that would be streamed into consumers’ homes. The idea is to create an Internet-based alternative to pay TV services offered up by existing cable and satellite companies, with potentially lower prices and more flexibility for consumers.
In some ways, the offer would make sense: Sony already has a huge potential customer base, as it would offer the service through various devices such as its Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and the PlayStation 3. The PS3, in particular, is particularly interesting: The device has sold more than 18 million units in the U.S., and already has a huge number of users streaming videos from services like Netflix and Hulu Plus.
Cable, satellite and IPTV providers are already under pressure due to increasing prices and a weak economy. The number of new subscribers in the U.S. has largely been flat over the last few years, as consumers have bought fewer new homes and have been forced to think twice about discretionary spending.
At the same time, over-the-top video services are growing dramatically. Despite a loss of subscribers due to a pricing change earlier this year, Netflix still had 40 percent more subscribers at the end of the third quarter than a year ago. And services like Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime Videos also seem to be taking off.
If history is any guide, however, Sony is unlikely to succeed in its efforts to propose an over-the-top alternative to cable. Multiple device makers over the last few years have attempted to build TV-like bundles of content to be distributed over the Internet, including both Microsoft and Apple. Despite having large numbers of rabid customers, both were unable to convince big media companies to get on board.
The main issue for media companies is the potential of alienating their existing distributors and reducing viewership through traditional distribution models. Digital distribution is providing some incremental dollars to media companies for library or long-tail content, but they’re afraid over-the-top services could cannibalize their existing viewership and revenues. So while Sony — like Microsoft and Apple before it — is most likely interested in a streaming linear TV offering, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it roll out a subscription video-on-demand service like Netflix or Amazon Prime Videos instead.
Sony has approached multiple media companies about the proposal, which would create a bundle of TV channels that would be streamed into consumers’ homes. The idea is to create an Internet-based alternative to pay TV services offered up by existing cable and satellite companies, with potentially lower prices and more flexibility for consumers.
In some ways, the offer would make sense: Sony already has a huge potential customer base, as it would offer the service through various devices such as its Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and the PlayStation 3. The PS3, in particular, is particularly interesting: The device has sold more than 18 million units in the U.S., and already has a huge number of users streaming videos from services like Netflix and Hulu Plus.
Cable, satellite and IPTV providers are already under pressure due to increasing prices and a weak economy. The number of new subscribers in the U.S. has largely been flat over the last few years, as consumers have bought fewer new homes and have been forced to think twice about discretionary spending.
At the same time, over-the-top video services are growing dramatically. Despite a loss of subscribers due to a pricing change earlier this year, Netflix still had 40 percent more subscribers at the end of the third quarter than a year ago. And services like Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime Videos also seem to be taking off.
If history is any guide, however, Sony is unlikely to succeed in its efforts to propose an over-the-top alternative to cable. Multiple device makers over the last few years have attempted to build TV-like bundles of content to be distributed over the Internet, including both Microsoft and Apple. Despite having large numbers of rabid customers, both were unable to convince big media companies to get on board.
The main issue for media companies is the potential of alienating their existing distributors and reducing viewership through traditional distribution models. Digital distribution is providing some incremental dollars to media companies for library or long-tail content, but they’re afraid over-the-top services could cannibalize their existing viewership and revenues. So while Sony — like Microsoft and Apple before it — is most likely interested in a streaming linear TV offering, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it roll out a subscription video-on-demand service like Netflix or Amazon Prime Videos instead.
Netflix UK Signs Miramax Films
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Miramax is the latest film studio to sign on to Netflix‘s streaming service in the UK and Ireland, with a planned launch early next year. Financial terms of the multi-year licensing agreement were not disclosed.
It’s not clear how much of Miramax’s back-catalog will be made available, nor how soon new releases will make their way to the service. Presumably, many if not all of the “hundreds” of Miramax films available through Netflix’s U.S. and Latin America services should be included.
In a statement, both companies mentioned that Pulp Fiction, Chicago, Cold Mountain, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, The Aviator, Bad Santa, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Chocolat, Finding Neverland, Gangs of New York, The Hours, Kate & Leopold, Rounders, Sling Blade, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and several of the Scary Movie, Scream and Hellraiser films would be made available.
In recent weeks, both Lionsgate and MGM have agreed to bring an exclusive set of content to Netflix. Miramax’s deal is not exclusive, however; it already markets its own set of streaming content to users in the UK (and elsewhere) via a Facebook app called the Miramax eXperience.
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http://mashable.com/2011/11/16/miramax-netflix-uk-ireland/
Miramax is the latest film studio to sign on to Netflix‘s streaming service in the UK and Ireland, with a planned launch early next year. Financial terms of the multi-year licensing agreement were not disclosed.It’s not clear how much of Miramax’s back-catalog will be made available, nor how soon new releases will make their way to the service. Presumably, many if not all of the “hundreds” of Miramax films available through Netflix’s U.S. and Latin America services should be included.
In a statement, both companies mentioned that Pulp Fiction, Chicago, Cold Mountain, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, The Aviator, Bad Santa, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Chocolat, Finding Neverland, Gangs of New York, The Hours, Kate & Leopold, Rounders, Sling Blade, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and several of the Scary Movie, Scream and Hellraiser films would be made available.
In recent weeks, both Lionsgate and MGM have agreed to bring an exclusive set of content to Netflix. Miramax’s deal is not exclusive, however; it already markets its own set of streaming content to users in the UK (and elsewhere) via a Facebook app called the Miramax eXperience.
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http://mashable.com/2011/11/16/miramax-netflix-uk-ireland/
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