Topic: Streaming

How Much You're Paying for Sports You Don't Watch, Per Sport

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Baseball and the Final Four are upon us, and the NBA and NHL postseasons are heating up with the Spring, even if football is months away. But no matter how much you're enjoying the singular benefits of your favorite sport, America's sports-padded cable TV packages are still forcing you to subsidize football — even in April.

By Connor Simpson

Mar 19, 2013

How to Watch March Madness Online, Without a TV, for Free, and Legally

Maybe you can't do all of those at once, but if you're a cord-cutter or a cord-never or you're stuck at work and want to watch the 2013 NCAA basketball tournament online, you're not totally out of options.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 29, 2012

How Many Cord Nevers Are There? An Office Survey

There's this idea that young people, who have grown up in a streaming Internet world, aren't getting cable and they never will. We call these people cord nevers and wanted to put some statistics behind the theory. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 3, 2012

Forget Cord-Cutters: Cable Companies Should Worry About Cord-Nevers

Recent cord cutting numbers of about 400,000 last quarter might not prove a threatening trend, but that's not the number that matters.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 1, 2012

Expert Advice for How Google Can Fix the Nexus Q

Now that Google has decided to delay the release of its media streaming device, the Nexus Q, to make it "better," we have some advice from unhappy reviewers for how Google could achieve that goal.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 26, 2012

Roku's Big Investment Means More TV on Its Box

Streaming TV box maker Roku just got $45 million and a "strategic relationship" from big media players News Corp. and British Sky Broadcasting, a sum and connections it can use to give us more streaming options (mostly) without cable.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 25, 2012

Netflix Moves Away from Movies with End of Epix Deal

During yesterday's quarterly earnings report, Netflix mentioned a possible end to its relationship with Epix -- one of its movie providers -- as if it were no big deal to lose a contract that provides many popular new release movies.

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By Connor Simpson

Jun 13, 2012

Justice Department Investigating Cable Companies' Fear of Streaming Video

The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department is investigating whether cable companies have been unfairly working to regulate Internet consumption to prevent people switching from cable to online video.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 30, 2012

Netflix Snaps Up DVD.com Domain

Following its failure to separate its DVD and streaming businesses with its loud and unpopular Qwikster rebranding effort, Netflix has taken subtler tactics to segregate its two types of customers: buying up the domain DVD.com.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 17, 2011

Can Netflix Afford a Comeback?

Netflix may have reached a financial roadblock in its plan to win back respect and subscribers.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 25, 2011

Steve Jobs: 'I Finally Cracked' the Apple TV

A quote from the Steve Jobs biography has the Apple TV rumor mill up and running again.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 11, 2011

The Fragmented Future of Streaming Television

It is going to be tough to find everything you want to watch in one place

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By Ray Gustini

Sep 26, 2011

Brad Pitt Is No Match for a 17-Year-Old Cartoon

Plus: Michael Fassbender on the shortlist for 'U.N.C.L.E.' and 'Robocop'

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 26, 2011

Netflix Notches a Win with DreamWorks Animation Deal

It won't give them many movies, but it does show they can beat out the likes of HBO for content

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 19, 2011

Get Ready for the New Dark Age of Movie Watching

Online only services just won't have as many movie offerings

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 7, 2011

Netflix Only Cares About Your Wallet Now

Recent moves suggest the company has forgone customer satisfaction for its bottom line

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