Amazon May 2 said its Amazon Studios unit is soliciting proposals for comedy and children’s programming for distribution on the ecommerce behemoth’s Instant Video transactional video-on-demand and Prime streaming platforms. Availability of ...
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May 02, 2012 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Amazon Soliciting Original Comedy, Kid’s Programming for VOD, Streaming
May 02, 2012 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Bewkes: UltraViolet Adds 1 Million New Accounts in Four Weeks
Consumers registering movies to the cloud-based UltraViolet digital locker topped 2 million accounts, including 1 million new accounts generated in the past four weeks, said Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes. Warner Bros. was the first studio to launch Ultra...
Posted in: Noted (News Feed) | Tags: Amazon, Digital Evolution, Industry News, Netflix, news, Redbox, walmart, Warner
April 19, 2012 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Senate Commerce to Tackle Online Video
Talk about understatement. "Everything about television is changing," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), in announcing the Commerce Committee's hearing next week on "The Emergence of Online Video: Is It the Future?" The he...
Posted in: Noted (News Feed) | Tags: Aereo, Amazon, Barry Diller, Katy Bachman, Microsoft, Nielsen, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Senate Commerce Committee, Television
January 10, 2012 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Analyst: Netflix vs. Amazon Streaming War Looming
When LoveFilm Instant Jan. 9 cut the monthly subscription price the day Netflix formally launched streaming operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, it signaled the beginning of what one analyst says will evolve into a protracted turf/price war be...
Posted in: Noted (News Feed) | Tags: Amazon, Digital Evolution, Industry News, Netflix, news, Streaming
January 10, 2012 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
UltraViolet Garners Support from Samsung and Amazon
LAS VEGAS — The cloud-based platform UltraViolet, which is backed by five of the six major studios, received a strong show of support Jan. 10 from various segments of the industry here at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Already...
Posted in: Noted (News Feed) | Tags: Amazon, CES, Digital Copy, Digital Evolution, Industry News, news, Samsung
November 22, 2011 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Analyst: Amazon Eyeing Separate Streaming Service
With Amazon offering week-long Black Friday pricing on DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies, BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield believes the e-commerce behemoth is positioning its new Kindle Fire tablet as a Trojan horse to deliver TV programming into hom...
November 15, 2011 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Indie movie streaming service Fandor comes to Roku
Fandor has been called the Netflix for indie movies, providing users access to a number of independent and foreign films they can't find anywhere else. Now it's taking another page out of the Netflix playbook, by building apps for connected
November 09, 2011 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Amazon Kindle Fire Adds Netflix Streaming, Games
Amazon Nov. 9 belatedly joined the crowded market of tablet computers offering Netflix streaming functionality. The Seattle-based ecommerce giant said that beginning the week of Nov. 14, Kindle Fire users will be able to access myriad new Android platf...
October 25, 2011 by Sam Vasisht | Comments Off
Amazon Upping Content Investment in LoveFilm, Prime Streaming
Amazon is ramping up content investment in its London-based LoveFilm disc and streaming rental platform, in addition to the Amazon Prime membership service offering free movie streams. In an analyst call Oct. 25 to discuss third-quarter results, CFO Th...
2011 Has Been a Landmark Year for Online Video
As 2011 comes to a close, it is hard to deny that it was a definitive year for online video even against the backdrop of the assertive pace that the industry has been on for the past few years. The