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Netflix-Ay Comes to Canada-Ay

Netflix is finally making the transition to new audiences and finally is expanding their service as well as their movie and tv streaming service to our neighbors up north in good old Canada.  We have talked about possible international expansion in the past, mainly across the pond over in Europe, but it seems that the [...]

Topics : Movie Marketing
Posted by : Craig Kessler on August 3, 2010

Fox and Universal Make Deals to Delay New Releases with Netflix

Source: I Watch Stuff If you are a fan of the movie rental service Netflix, you may not be a fan of the deals they have been making lately.  Recently they solidified a deal with Warner Bros where Netflix would delay the release of brand new DVD’s for 28 days, so the studio has a [...]

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Posted by : Craig Kessler on April 13, 2010

Netflix Shipped out Discs for the Wii

Netflix has been dominating the gaming systems lately when it released a disc for the PS3 so users can stream movies on the entertainment super system.  Being a PS3 owner myself and a Netflix lover, this is a marriage for the ages, and I am not the only one who believes so.  Everyone is raving [...]

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Posted by : Craig Kessler on April 1, 2010

Blockbuster Gets Bailout Deal From Warner Brothers

Bailouts are taking over the country as a way to help out the big boys stay in business and rework themselves with the competition.  We saw the US government bail out the banks, now we are seeing the same thing happen with the movie industry.  I have spoken a lot recently about Blockbuster’s bankruptcy problems [...]

Topics : Movie News
Posted by : Craig Kessler on March 25, 2010

Blockbuster is Pissing Off Customers With Bringing Back Late Fees

Source: Flickr I lived at home for a year after graduating college and commuted to the city everyday by train.  I enjoyed growing up and had such a great college experience, culminating it to backpacking the middle east for almost a month right after.  Then I entered the working world, began living in the same [...]

Topics : Movie News, Rants
Posted by : Craig Kessler on March 12, 2010

Netflix Looking Into Building an iphone App to Stream Movies

Netflix, the leading movie rental service that has been expanding its online streaming video service even further, is trying to take things mobile now.  There have been rumors in the past about Netflix looking into creating an iphone app.  Well now those rumors just got a little bit juicier.  Netflix has been asking customers about [...]

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Posted by : Craig Kessler on March 3, 2010

Warner Bros Pressures Red Box Into Delaying New Releases

Red Box is the latest victim to the pressures of Hollywood studio giant Warner Brothers.  The shark just ate the little fish of Red Box and is making them delay the rental of new movie releases to 28 days later in order for the studio to try to sell more DVD’s in that time period.  [...]

Topics : Movie News, Netflix
Posted by : Craig Kessler on February 17, 2010

The Studios are Attacking the Little Man Red Box Now

The movie rentalwar has always been seen as a 2 way battle between heavyweights Blockbuster and Netflix.  But there is another up and comer who has made strides in the niche and has won over the hearts of many.  Red Box releases movies from kiosks for $1 and can usually be found in many local [...]

Topics : Movie Marketing, Movie News, Netflix
Posted by : Craig Kessler on February 9, 2010

Youtube Beginning to Diversify and Offer Streaming Movie Rentals

Source: Flickr Google owned Youtube is beginning to make moves in the streaming online video industry.  Currently, leading online movie rental service Netflix is ahead with streaming movie rentals, but the space is going to get much more crowded. Youtube, which may be the greatest invention of all time especially for procrastination at work is [...]

Topics : Movie Marketing
Posted by : Craig Kessler on January 22, 2010

Netflix is Making Streaming Videos Available on the Wii

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Netflix right now is the stud intern who is making moves and getting his name around the office, except in reality, they are getting around the country.  Netflix has been all over the place lately and has been making moves left and right with Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Sony.  They really are making themselves not [...]

Topics : Netflix
Posted by : Craig Kessler on January 14, 2010

28 Day Wait to Watch New Release Movie Rentals Through Netflix

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Netflix, the leading mail-in movie rental service that delivers millions of movies right to fans mailboxes every day, has recently formed a contract with Warner Brothers regarding its newest releases.  Awhile back we announced how there was a deal in the works between Netflix and Warner Brothers regarding the newest movies.  Well that deal has [...]

Topics : Movie News, Netflix
Posted by : Craig Kessler on January 12, 2010

Netflix May Delay New Releases for 30 Days

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Flickr: Max Power The popular movie rental service Netflix has been so successful that Hollywood may be taking a big axe on it to chop it down.  Users pay for a monthly subscription and have the ability to rent an unlimited amount of movies without late fees.  They choose from the enormous online library of [...]

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Posted by : Craig Kessler on November 16, 2009

Netflix Streaming Video Coming to the PS3

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The PS3 is the ultimate entertainment system and includes great gaming, an exceptional blu ray player, and an all inclusive system where you can enjoy videos, pictures, music and more.  It is my gaming system of choice as I personally own and enjoy the PS3.  Others may differ but for me I have always been [...]

Topics : Movie News
Posted by : Craig Kessler on October 29, 2009

Netflix Going to Announce Second Big Contest

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download Shrek the Halls dvd Netflix had released a competition in 2006 called the $1 million competition.  They challenged anyone to find an algorithm that would increase the accuracy of their movie recommendations by 10%, with anyone who could accomplish this receiving $1 million.  The movie rental company wanted to give users more accurate movie [...]

Topics : Netflix
Posted by : Craig Kessler on August 12, 2009

Netflix Bumped Up Costs to Rent Blu-Ray

I just received this email earlier today from Netflix how they are increasing their blu-ray titles and because they are more expensive, they are charging their customers more money.  Makes sense and I can’t blame them for that, but still sucks.  Jacking my fee up to $11.21 for one DVD unlimited for the month.  Between [...]

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Posted by : Craig Kessler on March 30, 2009

The new era of Netflix

conjurer dvdrip download Chicago 10 movie Flight from Ashiya full movie Twilight Zone: The Movie film How many people out there in the past say 6 months have signed up for Netflix? In that same period, how many people either stopped going to Blockbuster or have cut back on buying DVD’s? I am in both [...]

Topics : Blu-Ray Review
Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on March 11, 2009