By Todd Haselton |
You can already use Netflix to watch movies at the same time as friends and family in other locations, if you’re using it from a platform such as the Xbox 360, but new social features are allegedly on the way in 2013. The company was…
By Todd Haselton |
Google’s scan and match feature of Google Music, which allows users to store content in the cloud for playback at a later time, is apparently taking explicit songs and replacing them with edited versions. In other words, you might own the explicit version of a…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced on Tuesday that its Google Play cloud-based streaming music service with song matching is now live in the United States. The application, which launched in Europe last month, allows you to store 20,000 songs online and access them anywhere — whether it’s from an…
By Sean P. Aune |
Hulu is ending 2012 with a bang when it comes to subscribers to its Hulu Plus service, as well as how much money its raking in from subscriptions and ad revenue. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar took to the company’s blog today to give everyone a little…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon is once again expanding its Prime Instant Video offerings, this time with two exclusive TNT series. Popular TNT series The Closer and Falling Skies are both coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video exclusively. “Today’s agreements with TNT and Warner Bros. Domestic TV add two great…
By Brandon Russell |
Anyone with an iPad can watch new, full episodes of shows such as American Pickers and Storage Wars for free. If you’re on the cusp of cutting the cord or if you enjoy watching content on your iPad before bed, this is a nice little holiday…
By Brandon Russell |
Redbox has officially partnered up with Verizon to offer a $6 movie streaming service, with plans to go all out in 2013. For the immediate future, however, the Netflix rival will be in an invitation-only beta this month, probably to gauge performance and get early…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re itching for a PlayStation 3 to grace your living room, this is the argument you use with your parents/spouse/significant other: Sony’s game console is responsible for the most TV-based Netflix streaming than any other device. Forget Google TV, TiVo or Roku — they…
By Todd Haselton |
Walt Disney Co and Netflix have reportedly reached a deal in which Disney will provide the streaming TV and movie service with its movies. Disney, as Reuters notes, typically only provides its content to premium cable channels. Netflix customers will be able to watch Disney movies…
By Brandon Russell |
Pandora and Spotify are two of the biggest names in music streaming today, dominating as the go-to services on the market. Having a party? Switch on your favorite Pandora station. On a long roadtrip? Make a playlist on Spotify. What makes both of the services…
By Roy Choi |
FCC filings have outed a new Google TV set-box unit from Netgear, the NeoTV Prime. While the testing documents don’t actually show the device that plugs in to the TV, it does reveal a Bluetooth-connected, QWERTY keyboard remote with a trackpad. The remote has embedded…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s Nexus Q never quite lived up to its potential despite an interesting orb design, leading to a gloriously short-lived existence. It wasn’t particularly bad but, for the price, it didn’t have the kind of feature set consumers demand. Now that it’s gone completely, we’ve…
By Sean P. Aune |
If all goes according to plan, it appears that Redbox Instant by Verizon will launch just short of the Christmas holiday. According to screenshots obtained by GigaOm, Redbox Instant is coming together, and the Beta testers of the service have started sharing some information in…
By Adriana Lee |
Canadian Netflix subscribers have a happy new year to look forward to, thanks to a Warner deal that pulls in quite a load of popular content. In January 2013, our neighbors to the North will be able to stream TV programs like The Vampire Diaries,…
By Todd Haselton |
You might not want to upgrade your Apple TV to the latest software release just yet. Plenty of users are reporting that it renders the media device completely useless until they downgrade to the previous release, AppleInsider said Tuesday. You may have already upgraded and aren’t…
By Brandon Russell |
Hulu is giving viewers one more reason to visit the site over competing services like Netflix. Aside from its robust library of TV and movies, the streaming company on Friday further extended its media reach by introducing a new hub for video games. The online…
By Sean P. Aune |
After more than a year since its announcement, Netflix is finally ready to roll with its first commissioned series, House of Cards. Announced in early 2011, Netflix outbid multiple cable networks to win the exclusive rights to House of Cards produced by David Fincher and Kevin Spacey.…
By Todd Haselton |
Spotify will release a beta version of a web-based music client on Thursday, according to a report from The Verge. The interface will offer similarities to the desktop client, which is available on Mac OS X and Windows computers, and will include Spotify Radio support,…
By Todd Haselton |
Spotify recently raised an additional $100 million in funding, which puts the company’s value in the $3 billion range, The New York Times said Wednesday. It’s great news for the streaming and music on-demand service, which is currently one of our favorite options on the market.…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced on Wednesday that it has officially updated its Google TV application and that the new version will begin rolling out to LG devices in the next couple of weeks. Other Google TV consoles will receive the update in the coming months. The update…
By Killian Bell |
Google TV owners in Europe have been given the ability to buy or rent music and movies from the Google Play store, just over a month after the feature made its debut in the United States. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom will be able…
By Sean P. Aune |
Hulu Kids has launched as a portion of the service where kids will be able to easily find the type of content that will most appeal to them. As more and more content is added to streaming media services, it can become difficult to find…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon has begun offering a new pricing plan for Amazon Prime that will put it in direct competition with Netflix and Hulu.…
By Sean P. Aune |
At long last, CBS content will be coming to Hulu Plus, but don’t expect the latest shows. Hulu and CBS have announced a new agreement that will see over 2,600 episodes of library content coming to Hulu Plus starting in Jan. 2013. Shows such as…
