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Netflix Confirms Its Plans for UK and Ireland

Netflix Confirms Its Plans for UK and Ireland

Netflix may be losing ground in the US, but the service is still very much on with its international plans. In recent past, Netflix expanded its operations to Latin America and alluded that it would be interested in gaining foothold in British and Ireland market. Now, Netflix has confirmed its plans for the UK invasion. [...]

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Apple Prepping 1080p Movies For iTunes

Apple has always been a little slow off the mark to get 1080p content on it’s devices. They are famously unwilling to pay the license fee for Blu-Ray and only offer 720p movie rentals on iTunes. According to AppleInsiders their sources have told them that the current offering of 480p and 720p will be bolstered [...]

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Virgin Media Signs Deal With Spotify

British broadband supplier and TV broadcaster Virgin has signed a deal with music streaming software Spotify to bring music on demand to their customers.

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Microsoft Planning New Media Focus For E3 Announcement?

Microsoft are gearing up to a big E3 unveil on Monday and it might have something to do with IPTV and Xbox Live according to to VP Frank Shaw.

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Spotify Makes Steps Towards Scrapping The Free Model

Here comes the cuts and this time it’s not courtesy of Cameron and his chums but in fact, Spotify. In a move that we were all expecting (just not this soon) Online music service Spotify is halving the amount of free music that users can listen to. Spotify Cut Free Model in Half If you’re [...]

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Music Streaming Services Set To Explode By 2015 Claims Report

A paper was published yesterday which has suggested that music streaming services like Spotify will balloon to over 178 million users by 2015, Daniel Ashdown the author of the paper ‘Mobile Music Hits The Right Note’ reckons this massive increase will be driven by emerging markets like China and India. “While streaming is the buzz [...]

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A Look At Netflix First Original Show: House Of Cards

In case you don’t know what Netflix is, it’s a subscription based TV/film streaming service (basically.) Until now the company has avoided original programming but things are set to change. Apparently Netflix have splashed out $100 million for two seasons of a new drama, House Of Cards, beating off bids by TV giant HBO in [...]

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Veebeam: The Solution To Internet Streaming?

  With TV it used to be a simple case of the cool kids had Sky and the poor kids had terrestrial or Freeview (if they were lucky.) But things are changing. Internet video streaming is big and getting bigger. It could well be the future, in fact it almost certainly will. Obviously the first [...]

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