Everything from ads to porn is getting the 4K treatment lately, and now Netflix is experimenting with it too. This week the company posted six 4K videos at various frames per second rates to test their streaming performance. They’re all standard Netflix stock footage called “El Fuente.” Read more…
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The hardest part of beating piracy is finding a way to compete with free. Netflix does it by making things dumb easy, that and purposefully picking up shows that are popular with pirates . Read more…
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Roku’s updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes. Which is neat. Read more…
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Roku’s updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes.
There is a moment between when you click on a video and when it starts playing. That moment is the worst part of your day. The agony of waiting! The torture of anticipation! YouTube understands that, and on a visit to YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA, we got a look at what’s coming to make that awful moment pass before you know it happened. Read more…
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Inside YouTube’s Master Plan to Kill Lag Dead
When we last checked in with Sandvine’s stat trackers, Netflix reigned supreme in online video traffic at home, especially downstream. It’s still sitting pretty several months later, Sandvine tells AllThingsD . Quite possibly helped by the House of Cards debut , Netflix kept a healthy lead at 32.3 percent of downstream use on wired networks this past March. That’s no mean feat when some of its competition took big strides forward — YouTube jumped up to 17.1 percent, and Hulu likely rode sweeps season to get 2.4 percent. In mobile, it’s a different story. Netflix use on cellular almost doubled to 4 percent, but YouTube kept an uncontested lead at 27.3 percent of downstream use. It’s not hard to see why after looking at other video formats people prefer on the road: raw HTTP video (19.2 percent) and Facebook (8.6 percent) were the next-closest, which suggests that many still grab snack-sized videos on their phones instead of full movies or TV shows. We don’t expect the status quo to budge much in the near future, whether it’s on mobile or a fixed-line. Without major initiatives from veterans or the arrival of a new upstart, it isn’t clear just what would rock the boat. Filed under: Home Entertainment , Internet , HD , Google , Facebook Comments Via: AllThingsD Source: Sandvine
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Netflix keeps its lead in streaming video use at home, YouTube rules the road
Big Bird (or “Big Yellah,” as we like to call him) and his Sesame Street cohorts are now available for streaming on your Roku box. Not just that, but his non-avian colleagues from PBS and PBS Kids are also making the trip, arriving today in new PBS and PBS Kids Roku channels. The two new channels offer more than the on-demand access to PBS programming you’d expect; PBS Digital Studios’ work is also available to stream (we’re quite fond of it , if you couldn’t tell). While it’s not 100 percent clear what exactly is available at any given time, PBS’ announcement says “hundreds of videos” can be accessed, which are pulled from the archives, from national and local daily programming, and include biggies like NOVA , Frontline , and American Experience (it stands to reason that heavy hitter Downtown Abbey won’t be available, given its exclusive license with Amazon starting next month). PBS Kids is similarly well-stocked, with “more than 1,000 videos,” which includes everything from Curious George to, yes, Sesame Street . There’s a short teaser video of the service being used just below the break, should you not be able to contain yourself until you get home. Update: According to Roku, not all Roku players support the new PBS channels. “Both PBS and PBS Kids are available immediately for all Roku 3, Roku 2, Roku LT, new Roku HD players and the Roku Streaming Stick in the US,” the company says. Heads up! Filed under: Home Entertainment , Science , HD Comments Source: Roku
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Another Netflix purge is happening. By tomorrow, 1794 movies will disappear from Netflix’s catalog which means the last chance you have to stream these movies is tonight. Pick wisely! We’ve narrowed the choices down for you. Read more…
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According to the Wall Street Journal , Nielsen’s TV ratings are about to get some company, with a system that covers internet watchers . A “Nielsen Digital Program Ratings” pilot program will debut with participation from N BC, Fox, ABC, Univision, Discovery and A&E, tracking the viewership of streaming video they post on their websites. AOL (parent company of Engadget) is also reported to be participating, as the networks compare the data to their internal statistics before the ratings system gets a wider rollout. Of course, even the system they’re testing will only jump so far into the future — while it will track viewing on computers, it’s still leaving out phones and tablets. Networks want to track anywhere content is viewed — one of the issues we’ve been told they have with tech like Aereo or TWC TV — to sell ads against it, we’ll wait for more details to see if they’ll have any success extending the current model to other types of screens. Filed under: Home Entertainment , Internet , HD Comments Source: Wall Street Journal
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Yahoo may have failed in its bid to acquire Hulu last year, but CEO Marissa Mayer announced it’s snagged rights to show something the streaming site has been known for: Saturday Night Live . The deal with Broadway Video will give Yahoo exclusive online access to archived SNL content from 1975 through 2013 including show clips, “select” musical performances, behind the scenes and dress rehearsal clips. Yahoo will also have non-exclusive access to show current season Saturday Night Live clips in the US and a license to distribute library show clips internationally. Beginning September 1st, those archived clips will be pulled from other internet video platforms (presumably Hulu and Netflix — update, see below) for one year. The press release (included after the break) indicates Broadway and Yahoo will celebrate the partnership at Yahoo!’s Digital Content NewFront event on the 29th. We’ll see if there’s more to learn about Yahoo’s ever-evolving media strategy then. Update : The devil is in the details, and it appears that while Yahoo does have exclusive access to the SNL “clips” archive, that is not the same as full episodes. While that may seem arbitrary to the layman, what it means in effect is that later this year you’ll still be able to stream full episodes of SNL on other online services — just not clips. Filed under: Home Entertainment , HD Comments Source: Yahoo! Yodel , Marissa Mayer (Twitter)
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Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live’s archives (update: clips only) starting September 1st
Yahoo may have failed in its bid to acquire Hulu last year, but CEO Marissa Mayer announced it’s snagged rights to show something the streaming site has been known for: Saturday Night Live . The deal with Broadway Video will give Yahoo exclusive online access to archived SNL content from 1975 through 2013 including show clips, “select” musical performances, behind the scenes and dress rehearsal clips. Yahoo will also have non-exclusive access to show current season Saturday Night Live clips in the US and a license to distribute library show clips internationally. Beginning September 1st, those archived clips will be pulled from other internet video platforms (presumably Hulu and Netflix — update, see below) for one year. The press release (included after the break) indicates Broadway and Yahoo will celebrate the partnership at Yahoo!’s Digital Content NewFront event on the 29th. We’ll see if there’s more to learn about Yahoo’s ever-evolving media strategy then. Update : The devil is in the details, and it appears that while Yahoo does have exclusive access to the SNL “clips” archive, that is not the same as full episodes. While that may seem arbitrary to the layman, what it means in effect is that later this year you’ll still be able to stream full episodes of SNL on other online services — just not clips. Filed under: Home Entertainment , HD Comments Source: Yahoo! Yodel , Marissa Mayer (Twitter)
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Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live’s archives starting September 1st (update: clips only)