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Netflix is introducing a ‘post-play’ feature that makes it easier for users to watch several movies or TV episodes in a row, the film & TV streaming company announced Wednesday on its official blogs. In practical terms, the ‘post-play’ experience lets users minimize credits and fast forward to the next episode. At the moment, it Continue Reading →

Netflix’s Just for Kids user interface is coming to the Xbox, the company announced Wednesday, making it possible for Netflix subscribers to browse through kids titles on their Xbox 360 without seeing any inappropriate content. That’s great news for any family household with an Xbox, but it also points to much bigger plans to further Continue Reading →

The streaming of the Olympic games may be popular among viewers, but not so much at Netflix. Netflix streaming dropped 25 percent in the U.S. on Sunday, according to data from Procera. Sunday was the day that streaming of the London Olympics by TV networks reached a peak as high as 34 percent of all Continue Reading →

Netflix Max, which was first spotted by The Noisecast, has been made available to some PS3 owners through the most recent update to the company’s PS3 app. We just checked and didn’t have access to Max yet, but early users have been describing it as a kind of You Don’t Know Jack meets Siri: Max Continue Reading →

Hulu Plus is quietly rolling out to Apple TV set-top boxes Tuesday morning. It was on our hockey pucks when we turned them on, while reports on Twitter indicate losing the connection before the icon appeared once the box came back online. We’re checking it out now, and like Netflix, it allows users to pay Continue Reading →

Netflix has a lot of TV shows, a lot of old movies and a lot of kids’ stuff on its digital service. New movies? Not so much. Most Hollywood studios keep their recent releases away from Reed Hastings. One big exception: Netflix does get newish movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM, via Epix, the pay-TV Continue Reading →

Netflix announced that it has named former Warner Bros. executive Kelly Bennett as its chief marketing officer, six months after it lost its last longtime marketing head Leslie Kilgore. After 12 years on the job, Kilgore stepped down from the position in January. The resignation occurred after Netflix received an unprecedented over a split of Continue Reading →

Hulu has revamped its video player, ditching its older look for a more user-friendly interface. The clean new look integrates features like 10-second rewind, allowing users to easily cut back to moments earlier in video, and a more compact player that organizes buttons such as pop-out and closed captions within one menu. The player will Continue Reading →

Reed Hastings stopped listening, and that’s when the trouble started. In the spring of 2011, Hastings, Netflix’s widely admired chief executive, held a meeting with his management team and outlined his blueprint to jettison Netflix’s DVD operations. Netflix managers would tell subscribers on July 12 that they planned to do away with a popular subscription Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/1200704_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] According to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, its subscribers watched more than one billion hours of programming in June. One billion hours of Netflix programming averages out to about 80 minutes per subscriber per day.  Though numbers for cable networks have not been reported for last month, it’s Continue Reading →