Online DVD movie company Netflix said today it is experiencing its worst major outage in its history, preventing shipments of discs to around a third of its 8.4 million customers.The company said it was unable to ship any DVDs on Tuesday, some on Wednesday and none so far on Thursday.
LG Blu-ray Player Offers Netflix
LG Electronics has announced it will start selling a new Blu-ray DVD player that will allow Netflix customers to watch movies and TV shows streamed directly from the Internet to their TV sets.
Xbox 360 To Stream Netflix Movies
Microsoft and Netflix Unveil Partnership to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes to the TV via Xbox LIVE: Exclusive agreement creates game-changing home entertainment experience; more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost to paying subscribers.
Will Netflix Survive a Future Without DVDs?
There have been questions as to whether or not Netflix will be able to survive the future where DVDs are obsolete. Many don’t think they will be able to compete with companies that offer downloadable and streaming movies via set top boxes.
Time Inc. Setting Up Netflix-Like Magazine Site
Magazine subscriptions are strong commitments of a sort; after forking over a few bucks, you’re locked into receiving a single publication for a year (or more) or your life. Time Inc. aims to loosen things up by launching a Netflix-style site for magazines called Maghound.
Netflix Dataset Cracked, Subscribers Profiled
Netflix offered a million dollar reward to anyone who could improve upon their recommendation engine by ten percent. Two researchers accomplished a lot more with the “anonymized” dataset.
Netflix, QVC Score Well With Online Consumers
Online retailers Netflix, QVC.com and Amazon lead in customer satisfaction, according to the ForeSee Results Top 100 Online Retail Satisfaction Index out today.
“Netflix, QVC Score Well With Online Consumers”
Is Scoble Wrong About Netflix?
Ahh, Netflix is doing online videos. But, this isn’t the Verisign thing I saw last week at CES. It’s streaming only. It’s Windows only. I don’t believe that it’s HD.
Netflix Offering Streaming Movies
One of my favorite web applications and companies is Netflix.
Netflix to Offer Streaming Movie Content
Reports that have touted the eminent demise of Netflix may be a bit premature, especially now that the company has announced plans to offer downloadable movies for no additional fee as part of its standard membership package.