Comcast Turns the Broadband Meter On, and Moves to Usage-Based Billing

Important for people who stream a whole lot of Internet video, or think they might one day.
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Microsoft’s Sneaky Success: The Xbox Is the Most Popular Video Player in the U.S.

New data says the game player serves up more video than the iPad, iPhone or Android. Google TV or Apple TV are so far behind they don’t even make the cut.
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Stalking the Elusive Cord-Cutter: Pay TV Grew Last Quarter (Again)

It’s easier than ever to get what you want to watch without paying for TV. But you’re still doing it.
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Cable Fee Fight Takes Another Turn as Dish Networks Uses iTunes, Netflix and Amazon as Weapons

Wait long enough, or pay enough, and you can see repeats of last night’s “Mad Men” in lots of places. So why pay to see it on cable last night?
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Discovery Gets a Web Video Arm, Courtesy of Revision3

The cable guys get a Web video studio and network for about $30 million.
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Amazon Gets Into the Sitcom Business

And the kids’-show business, too. Yet another big Web company says it’s going to make its own videos. How soon before Jeff Bezos finds a “Seinfeld”?
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You Really Can Blame the Web for Shrinking TV Ratings — But You Have to Credit It for Boosting TV, Too

A new study confirms what you already knew: If you’re watching lots of stuff on Netflix, you’re watching less on TV. Except, people who watch Netflix sometimes watch more TV, too.
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Netflix Says It’s Back to Boom Times. Wall Street Isn’t Convinced.

Netflix says 2012 is going to be great. Wall Street remembers 2011.
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Netflix Posts an In-Line Quarter, but Investors Balk (Updated)

The company delivers the Q1 numbers it predicted, and says it could become profitable again ahead of plan. But investors aren’t happy, anyway.
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The One Number Netflix Investors Care About Today

Sure, revenue and EPS matter. But when Q1 numbers go out Monday afternoon, the Street will look at something else first.
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Reed Hastings’s Expensive Year

Netflix Says Its PAC Is Not About SOPA

Where Are the Family Plans for Web Apps?

Why the Web Hasn’t Hurt TV

Where Did the Cord-Cutters Go?