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For first time, movie streaming to beat viewing by DVD

Mar 26, 2012
But consumers forgoing discs for online distribution could be bad for the industry.

Actor Steven Van Zandt on the state of television

Mar 7, 2012
The new series, "Lilyhammer?" It stars Steven Van Zandt as a gangster who turns on the mob and gets relocated to Norway by the FBI. The eight-show series is part of the new original programming streaming on Netflix.

Aereo launches, streams broadcast TV

Feb 15, 2012
A lot of people are kind of scratching their heads over yesterday’s announcement of Aereo. It’s a streaming TV service for smartphones, tablets, and Internet-enabled TVs launching March 14th in New York City and presumably planning to come to other markets soon after that. But it doesn’t stream on-demand movies or shows from HBO or […]

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Verizon and Redbox plan new streaming service

Feb 7, 2012
We already have a company that offers streaming movies and TV shows as well as offering DVDs and Blu-Rays. It's Netflix. So why, then, are Verizon and Redbox teaming up to offer the same thing?