Did Amazon Just Launch a Netflix Killer? Hardly.
Amazon is gunning for Netlix and Hulu. That's been the conventional wisdom anyway, with many expecting the ecommerce giant to launch a stand-alone video streaming service to compete with those...
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YouTube Weeds Its Shows As Google Cultivates TV Strategy
Don't think YouTube is any less serious about becoming your next favorite TV channel. Sure, it's slashing the number of Web shows it's funding, but that only means it's sharpening its focus. 2013 is...
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Netflix Does Deal With Disney: The End of Flat-Rate Movie Pricing?
Tuesday morning, Deathwatch-favorite Netflix announced a new partnership with Disney. While the financial terms have yet to be disclosed, this looks like a huge step in the right direction for the...
View ArticleThanks Congress, But We Need Privacy Laws, Not Banal Social Sharing
Great news! The U.S. Congress just sent a bill to President Obama's desk that will make it easier to tell your Facebook friends what you're watching on Netflix. Now when that kid you haven't spoken to...
View ArticleWhy Netflix' Christmas Eve Crash Was Its Own Fault
After an ill-timed outage on Christmas Eve zapped popular video provider Netflix - the popular refrain has been clear: Blame the cloud. But when there's a car crash, do we blame the highway or the...
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5 Ways TV Will Evolve in 2013
If you were expecting the Internet to upend TV like it mangled the print media business, you may have noticed by now that things aren't so simple. The Web is very good at delivering text and static...
View ArticleWatch Out! New Video Law Lets Netflix Share What You're Viewing
It passed the House, the Senate, and just before the new year, the President signed it into law. In a significant shift in video privacy - online video rental companies can now share information about...
View ArticleStorm Warning: Why 100% Cloud Uptime Is Impossible
Guest author Mike Pav is engineering vice president of Spanning Cloud Apps, a provider of data protection solutions for the cloud. When Amazon Web Services crashed on Christmas Eve (which brought down...
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Nielsen Redefines "TV" To Include Your iPad And Xbox
It's been 63 years since Nielsen started measuring what we're watching on TV. For most of that time, the concept of "TV" has pretty much remained the same. But in the last half decade, the old model...
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Netflix: U.S. Tops Internet Speed Index. Say What?
In the world of Netflix's new "global" ISP speed index, which the streaming-video service announced Monday, the U.S. takes top honors for fastest connection thanks to Google Fiber, while speedy...
View ArticleTie My Netflix Account to Facebook? No Thanks
Netflix's long-delayed integration with Facebook is here. This week, the company will roll out the option to customers in the U.S., where the archaic Video Privacy Act was recently amended to permit...
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The Internet Assault On Traditional TV Is Working
Compared to the music and news industries, the television business has so far managed to avoid being upended by the disruptive forces of the Internet. That's about to change. Despite the industry's...
View Article2013: The Year Internet TV Went Mainstream
Something huge is happening in online TV this year. No, it's not a new streaming set top box or Web-exclusive video series. It's not even an app. It's a milestone: 2013 is the year that Internet-first...
View ArticleIs Building A Data Center A Sign Of Failure, Not Success?
In Silicon Valley, the true sign of success has been to build one's own data center. As the theory goes, once you hit a certain size, owning your infrastructure becomes essential to achieving the...
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Why This Loyal Apple User Switched From Apple TV To Roku
Tim Cook and Apple may be constructing their "grand vision" for television but I'm not waiting, not even if Cook announces something awesome at the company's WWDC next week. I've switched from Apple TV...
View ArticleNetflix's Content Strategy: CompuServe 2.0?
There's a disturbing trend in content networks today. From NBC Universal to Netflix, once-neutral content networks are now investing in original content, exclusive to their networks. While these are...
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Netflix Positioned To Lead The Next Wave Of Cloud Adoption
Amazon may well be the most important infrastructure company in the industry today, given its dominant role in public cloud infrastructure. But the company making that infrastructure sing, regularly...
View ArticleCBS, Time Warner Cable End TV Dispute
The CBS television network and other channels controlled by its parents returned to Time Warner Cable systems Monday evening, after the companies resolved an ongoing dispute. One key issue: Whether CBS...
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Startup Oyster Is The Latest Attempt At A Netflix For Books
Oyster, the latest startup to offer subscription access to books much the way Netflix does for movies, launched its app for the iPhone today. Subscribers can browse more than 100,000 e-book titles for...
View Article4K In 2014: Will YouTube, Netflix Bring Ultra HD Into Mainstream?
As the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show rapidly approaches, Samsung, LG, Sony and others are ready to release their latest and greatest televisions with support for 4K, which was officially deemed "Ultra...
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