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If you think you’ve watched everything Netflix has to offer, think again. Netflix recently released a major overhaul to its Instant Queue, the place you can save everything you want to watch later. The Instant Queue is now called “My List,” and it’s designed to help you quickly find the next show or movie you Continue Reading →

Xbox 360-owning Time Warner Cable subscribers will be able to access live cable television channels through a new app that launched on Tuesday on Xbox Live, Microsoft and Time Warner announced. The companies originally announced their collaboration on the app in June. It is available only to U.S.-based Xbox Live Gold members. The TWC TV Continue Reading →

Time Warner Cable is offering a last-ditch solution to customers as its blackout on CBS channels continues. On Friday, the company said it would distribute antennas to Time Warner Cable subscribers in four markets, allowing them to watch CBS as an over-the-air broadcast instead of through their cable boxes. “We regret that CBS has put Continue Reading →

Walt Disney’s ESPN sports network has held preliminary talks to offer programming on a Web-based TV service like those proposed by Google, Sony and Intel. An Internet TV provider would have to pay as much or more than cable and satellite services, President John Skipper said today at ESPN’s campus in Bristol, Connecticut. He declined Continue Reading →

Years of halting negotiations with cable companies haven’t gotten Apple much closer to its grand vision for television. But a newer strategy of talking directly to content providers seems more promising. Apple is negotiating with production studios and networks to provide content for a television set that would emphasize apps over cable TV, according to Continue Reading →

Internet music video provider Vevo launched its linear channel on mobile devices, Xbox 360 and Roku back in March, and according to the Wall Street Journal, it may arrive on the PS3, Apple TV (directly, AirPlay support came last week) and Samsung’s Smart TV soon. After a rumor earlier this month from AdAge, the new Continue Reading →

To help users quickly find the next TV show and movie they want to watch, Netflix is rolling out a new feature called ‘My List’ for its cross-platform streaming service over the next two weeks. The idea is that users select the particular series, movies or individual episodes that they want to watch sometime in Continue Reading →

Think Netflix only cares about TV shows these days? Think again: The video subscription service just inked a deal with the Weinstein Company that will bring movies from Weinstein and its Dimension Films outlet to Netflix during what industry insiders like to call the pay TV window. This means that Netflix will get the films Continue Reading →

Xbox Music and Xbox Video are the future of Microsoft’s digital media ecosystem. But putting a greater focus on the Xbox brand means saying goodbye to some past ventures. On Monday, the company announced plans to phase out support for purchases and rentals on Zune Marketplace “as early as” August 22nd — coinciding with the Continue Reading →

Forget Walter White. Netflix may be “the one who knocks.” If there were any skepticism left about the clout the streaming service possesses, it may have been put to the rest Sunday after the AMC drama series “Breaking Bad” obliterated its own personal-best ratings by scoring 5.9 million total viewers– more than double the previous Continue Reading →