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Netflix Teams Up with Roku for Streaming Box
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 21, 2008
Netflix and Roku are teaming up to offer a $99 set-top box that would allow Netflix members to stream more than 10,000 movies and TV program episodes.
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Netflix to Expand Use of Subtitles
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 02, 2011
Movie subtitles are a must for the elderly, the hard of hearing, and those for whom English is a second language. They're a universal part of Blu-ray and DVD releases but rarer in video streaming. Netflix aims to fill that need by expanding the use of subtitles in the majority of its online offerings.

Specifically, Netflix aims to have subtitles in 80 percent of its streaming programming by the end of 2011, up from 30 percent now.

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Netflix to Offer Streaming-Only Plan in U.S.
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 28, 2010
Netflix is "looking at adding a streaming-only option for the USA over the coming months," its CEO says.
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Netflix to Rent TV Shows on the Net
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 29, 2008
Netflix has cut deals with CBS and the Disney Channel to make their shows available through its fledgling online service, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Netflix online library has only about 12,000 titles, versus the 100,000 titles available through the chain's brick-and-mortar stores, so the company needs to keep cutting deals like these.
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Netflix Vows to Be True Blu
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 11, 2008
Netflix will drop HD DVD and stock its virtual shelves exclusively with Blu-ray discs, the rental service announced today. From now on it will buy new stock only in Blu-ray and will phase out existing HD DVD stock by year-end.
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Netflix Wants Extra Green for Blu-ray
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 29, 2008
Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, cutting-edge videophiles who rent Blu-ray discs from Netflix will be charged extra. High res equals high price.
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Netflix: I'm the King of the World
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 19, 2011
It's official: Netflix is now king of the internet, eclipsing all other forms of net traffic, bringing an abrupt end to the nation's use of other video streaming operations, web browsing, email, and naughty bits.

Oh all right, that's an exaggeration. But not by much. a recent study by Sandvine, a network analytics firm, reveals that Netflix is indeed the biggest bandwidth consumer on the net.

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Netflixers Plead for Disc-Only Plan
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 27, 2011
Even while Netflix has passed the 20 million mark in subscribers, some Netflixers are pleading for a disc-only rental plan.

"If you don't want instant gratification, then there should be an option -- call it the slow lane, if you like," said a blogger quoted in Home Media Magazine. In the wake of recent Netflix disc-rental price increases, an online poll showed 10 percent threatening to ax their membership. That probably won't cut much ice with Netflix, which sees its future in streaming, even to the point of removing "Add to DVD Queue" from its streaming interface.

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Network DVRs Sprout
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 19, 2010
Cablevision's network DVR, long delayed by court battles with the entertainment industry, finally reached some homes in April, having cleared its final legal hurdles.
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Networks and Studios Sue Cablevision
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 31, 2006
Cablevision's digital video recorder has the movie studios and television networks up in arms. ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Disney, Paramount, and Universal have sued over the nDVR, or network DVR, claiming copyright infringement. The nDVR stores up to 80 hours of programming on a remote server. Program it to record your favorite stuff in perpetuity and you have, in effect, a limited version of video on demand. Since the disc drive is not in your rack, you can operate it just using an dDVR-enabled cable box. Cablevision says the suit is "without merit." Analysts say the suit was expected, and if Cablevision prevails, cable ops will be able to deploy the dDVR on a larger scale and save big bucks in the process, both for consumers and themselves.
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