Netflix

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120604_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Verizon recently announced its new pricing plan for bandwidth.  You can get a very low speed (3 mbps down by 1mbps up) connection for about $55 per month, but if you feel like living in the fast lane, for $205 per month, you can crank your bandwidth Continue Reading →

Mobile video is taking off, especially due to high-quality video streams available over increasingly fast LTE mobile networks. The only problem is that most users have wireless plans that include a limited amount of data usage — usually just 2GB or 5GB per month.  Read the full story at TechCrunch Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120418_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Believe it or not, Hulu has been around for five years.  But the big news is that its $8-a-month Hulu Plus service just topped 2 million subscribers.  This week, Hulu is going to pitch advertisers on something really new – original programming.  You know Hulu from its Continue Reading →

According to a new report from IHS Screen Digest, the number of films bought or rented online this year will grow by 135 percent in 2012 to 2.4 billion.  While this sounds great at first glance for film studios, consumers will only spend $1.72 billion to do so compared to the $11.1 billion they spent last year on Continue Reading →

Six months after signing a deal to offer many of their most popular titles for streaming on Netflix, Discovery has partnered with Amazon to offer the same programming to subscribers of its $79/year Amazon Prime service. The deal will offer streaming access to shows from the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery and the Science Continue Reading →

Remember the game show 1 vs. 100, where one contestant played against 100 people for a cash jackpot? As the lone contestant built up his/her end of the jackpot (through incredibly inane multiple-choice questions) host Bob Saget (later Carrie Ann Inaba) would call for a decision to play on with this question: Do you want Continue Reading →

According to a report by Reuters, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings has been in talks with executives from major cable providers to make its streaming video service part of their offerings. Hastings has said in the past that he wants Netflix to be more like an HBO, so the move isn’t surprising. Netflix could add a Continue Reading →

Netflix’s contract with Starz ends today, removing some of the service’s most popular content from its library. Starz provided television and movies from Sony and Disney like Toy Story 3 and Tangled. The companies aren’t expected to strike a new deal. Read the full article at Engadget.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120228_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] WikiLeaks has begun publishing emails that it claims will expose dark secrets about the global security firm Stratfor. WikiLeaks is likening the private intelligence firm to a shadow CIA. But, Stratfor insists that the messages won’t expose anything close to a government conspiracy. In other news, a Continue Reading →

Comcast is launching a new service this week to compete with Netflix. Xfinity Streampix will include video-on-demand content from NBC Universal, Disney-ABC, Sony and Warner Brothers. The service will be free to many triple-play customers and $4.99 a month for basic cable subscribers. Read the full article at Time.com Continue Reading →