Unless you have been living under a rock for the better part of the past one decade, you are guaranteed to have heard of Netflix. Starting out with DVD-by-mail services, they have since expanded into online streaming and are now a dominant player in the streaming industry. With literally thousands of hours of content, everything ranging from documentaries to your favorite series available online to watch at your own leisure. However, many of us would prefer to watch on something larger than your average laptop or desktop computer screen (read: a big arse TV). This is actually quite easily done. A bit of your time and a few components is all that you’ll require. So if this piques your interest, then read on.
Streaming Movies and Videos Via The Internet
Before the internet was created there was TV. Television was the social media back in the 1930’s all the way up to the 1990’s and generations have had certain attachments to it and the TV shows and movies it broadcast. Social behaviour and social interaction was mostly about TV as opposed to the ancient social interaction was mostly about religions, gods, wars and the bloody spectacle of the Roman Gladiators.
At least now our taste for entertainment is just pretence, a make-believe of some sorts but I must say is far more entertaining than the gruesome past. Aside from reading interesting blog posts, seeing all the nice images along with them and tons of freebies and special offers; the internet allows you to stream movies at will (or as long as the movie is available to view that is).
Why the Film Industry Are Wrong About Piracy
Piracy has been around as long as the entertainment industry itself. Before the internet, if you wanted a song but you didn’t want to pay for it you could just record it straight off the radio onto a cassette tape. Something the music industry were not too fond of. Then in the mid-nineties the internet took the world by storm and allowed the free sharing of anything digital. The rise of Napster, the file sharing company that at its peak had over 80 million registered users, came against fierce criticism from the music industry.
A lawsuit they eventually lost and the company was shut down in July 2001. Nowadays, piracy is as popular as ever, with internet speeds as fast as they are, anyone can download an entire high-definition film in less than five minutes. So what are the film and TV industry doing to combat piracy? And what are the actual effects of piracy?
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Is Cable TV Nearing Extinction Due to the Ever Expanding Market Reach of Streaming TV?
Last year in October, HBO made it clear that the company plans to enter the lucrative and ever expanding streaming TV market by rolling out its own standalone streaming service at some point in 2015. Quite predictably, the market was abuzz with all sorts of speculations within hours – with some even going to the extent that this could well be the end of cable television as we know it.
Adding more to these speculations, CBS announced only a day later that it too was preparing to join the bandwagon by launching a proprietary streaming service. Similar announcement came from Showtime, CBS’s flagship entertainment channel.
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With comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live entering its 40th anniversary this year, the show is celebrating its landmark year by hosting a three and a half hour special featuring guests and stars from the show’s 40 years on air. The show started back in 1975 and was simply called NBC’s Saturday Night as another show held the Saturday Night Live title, it originally aired on October 11 1975. The original cast featured Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris and Chevy Chase. In the original season, cast members were only paid $750 by NBC per episode.
There have been 782 episodes since it first ran back in the 70s and many of its stars go on to successful careers in TV and film. The original cast of course went on to bigger fame, including Dan Akroyd who teamed up with Harold Ramis and Bill Murray to write and star in the classic Ghostbusters. John Belushi reprised his role with Dan Akroyd in the 1980s classic Blues Brothers film, based on their SNL sketches. Jake (Belushi) tries to get his old band back together after leaving jail in order to save the orphanage where he and brother Elwood were raised.
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Are you amongst the fans of the popular Doctor Who series using Netflix and are dreading February 1st?
The day when Doctor Who is planned to be removed from Netflix.
Though the past few days there have been a big uproar from fans on the internet: petitions have been signed, requests made to Netflix to reconsider and countless angry comments on blogs and sites all over the web.
But you may remain calm, at least according to a Netflix source close to”The Best of Netflix” blog, whom told that the streaming service is in talks with BBC to keep the show going. And a deal may be reached before the February deadline. The source said that there is potential that the deal could cancel the removal entirely.
The contract negotiation may most likely be a “BBC package renewal”. This means that less popular BBC shows may also return alongside Doctor Who.
This type of “cliffhanger removal” is quite common. But it does not always cause an uproar like in the case of Doctor Who. The BBC series has a very loyal and wide fan base so it should come as no surprise.
Before removal, Netflix takes into consideration the show’s popularity and customer service “votes”. The latter is a statistic based on how many people have called in to complain about the series being removed or request for an unavailable title.
Dr. Who’s original and new series’ have been a massive hit on Netflix making it one of the most streamed television shows. The streaming company has probably brought countless of new fans to the series through their content.
