May 17, 2012
Netflix customers will be seeing a new video player the next time they use the service. The company has given its video player a moderate overhaul, adding a number of new features without drastically changing its appearance.
May 11, 2012
An alarming New York Post article has stirred up a hornet’s nest by suggesting that Hulu will be slowly moving towards a business model that requires authentication. In other words, users who want to watch certain content – or perhaps any content – will have to prove they’re already a cable subscriber.
April 6, 2012
Electronics can be evil. A short time ago I wrote an article about using the Xbox 360 as a media center. I concluded that it wasn’t the best choice. Sensing my betrayal, the 360 promptly kicked the bucket, leaving me without the Netflix I craved. Rather than replace the 360, I decided buy to a competing media center, the Roku. My verdict?
March 29, 2012
Streaming media has become the way of the future for many consumers, and as a result there’s no shortage of services to pick from. Let’s compare five of the best streaming media services to see exactly what they have to offer and which is the king of this crowd.
January 27, 2012
Netflix recently launched in the UK – and I wrote up a full and shining review of the service last time. It offers an affordable way to get high quality on-demand movies and TV straight into your living room (or any portable device). My question today is – is Netflix the ultimate solution to piracy? Our generation has grown up believing everything should be instant access. But the industry hasn’t adapted.
January 25, 2012
With Netflix having recently launched in the UK, it looks like consumers are going to have to make a choice between the established Amazon-backed LoveFilm, and the newcomer Netflix. Which is the best? Let me break it down for you – and let me say that there is a clear winner here. This review is UK-centric, and refers throughout to the UK launch of the Netflix service, as well as UK-only service LoveFilm.
January 9, 2012
It took long enough, but Netflix has finally decided to roll out their popular streaming service in the United Kingdom and Ireland. They will be going head to head with popular services such as Amazon-owned Lovefilm, and with the slew of problems Netflix has had recently, getting a foothold there may not be so easy. However, Netflix needs a new market, and the UK and Ireland is the perfect place.
December 16, 2011
Barnes & Noble’s recently unveiled Nook Tablet may be the newest and more exciting version, but that doesn’t mean that the company has discontinued or abandoned the Nook Color. Instead, they’ve dropped the price to $199 and continued onward. If anything, it seems as if the Nook Tablet may be helping to enhance its less expensive cousin.
October 22, 2011
Tablets are excellent for watching movies. The big, beautiful displays are able to render detail that you simply don’t receive while squinting at a 4.3” LCD, making the mini-theatrical experience that much better. This has made it all the more strange that Netflix hasn’t been quick to offer support for Honeycomb-powered Android tablets, but now that issue has finally been rectified.
September 14, 2011
Though Netflix arrived on Android in May, its rollout to devices has been slow and on a device-by-device basis. As a result, many devices that seemed to have the required hardware were left out in the cold. Now, for owners of Android 2.2 and 2.3 smartphones, that’s in the past. Netflix’s latest update of its [...]
