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CBS Plans To Remove Some Showtime Content From Netflix

Robb — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:01:12 +0000

CBS confirmed yesterday with Dow Jones that it will pull some of it’s premium ShowTime content from Netflix when the current partnership between ShowTime and Netflix expires this summer. Showtime spokeswoman Johanna Fuentes confirmed that all episodes of shows currently airing on ShowTime like “Dexter” and “Californification” will be removed.

This news comes as a bit of a surprise to Netflix… “We’re perplexed by this,” Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesperson told Dow Jones. “We have great Showtime shows available on our service, and we expect to continue with those shows. We have a very good relationship with CBS and all its channels.” Something tells me that the “very good relationship with CBS and all its channels” isn’t as good as Netflix believes it to be. At the end of the day, however, this could be, and, probably is, a negotiation tactic by CBS.

Content producers need Netflix and services like it

Content producers would love it if consumers would just come to their websites and buy their premium streaming content direct. The problem for content producers, however, is that there are a lot of them out there and consumers aren’t going to go to every website and pay direct unless they are truly a fan of a show. Netflix, on the other hand, works as the middle man. They bring a critical mass of users willing to pay a monthly fee to get all you can eat from multiple content producers, but, probably wouldn’t buy direct from a particular content producer for a show that they are just casually interested in.

Personally, I like the show “Dexter” and watch it via Netflix all the time. If Netflix, however, no longer offers Dexter, its not like I would go buy it directly from Showtime. CBS knows this, which, is why I believe that what you see happening here is the beginning of negotiations for their next contract with Netflix…

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Unstoppable becomes the first Blu-ray Movie Release To Offer Android Compatable Digital Copy

Robb — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:12:14 +0000

It’s kind of hard to believe that it has taken this long , but, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is announcing that its impending Unstoppable launch will be the first Blu-ray release to include Digital Copy compatible with Android devices allowing movie buffs with devices running Google’s mobile operating system watch their movies while on the go

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[Video] What do you think of the new Tiger Woods commercial?

Robb — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:02:59 +0000

Today is the start of the Masters and the day that Tiger Woods makes his return to golf after his self imposed five month long hiatus after his “car accident” just after Thanksgiving last year. One of the companies to stand behind Tiger as details of his infidelities flooded every media outlet known to man was Nike, and, this is the first commercial that they’ve put out…

Not your average Nike commercial… What do you think?

Netflix streaming popularity on the rise… Significantly so…

Robb — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:05:28 +0000

Have you ever streamed a movie from Netflix? Well, the odds are that if you haven’t yet, you soon will. The popularity of Netfilx’ streaming service which launched back in 2007 has already eclipsed the entire 2008 total of movies streamed in just the first 3 months of 2010 and is on pace to have significant year over year growth in 2010 . Netflix subscribers are downloading so many movies as compared to receiving DVDs in the mail that 2010 could be the first year that Netflix actually sees a decline in the number of movies they send through the mail.

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