6 posts and columns on video-streaming

Netflix Down on Report of Verizon Video Streaming Plans

in News on December 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm PT

Shares of Netflix are down are down 2 percent, perhaps in part because Verizon Communications is planning to offer its own streaming video service on the Internet, according to a report by Reuters.

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YouTube Dips Its Toe into Live Streaming

in News on September 13, 2010 at 12:54 am PT

Google’s YouTube is starting its long-awaited move into live video streaming this morning with a limited test of its new platform: Two days of scheduled live programs from four partner channels–Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. The results of the test will help determine when the live-streaming capability will be rolled out to additional partners. Watching closely will be current players in the space, including Livestream and Ustream.

Netflix: There's a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone

in News on August 4, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.
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Netflix: There’s a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone

in News on August 4, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.
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in News on April 30, 2009 at 2:55 pm PT

Netflix to Stream Hannah Montana Contagion

in News on September 23, 2008 at 11:50 am PT

Looks like Netflix’s video-streaming business is developing quite nicely. On Tuesday the DVD-by-mail pioneer said it has signed deals with CBS and Walt Disney that will add some of those networks’ most popular shows to the Netflix streaming library.