Netflix aims for 90M U.S. subscribers
14 Feb 2012 7:30pm GMT Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said this week that he thinks Netflix could have up to three times as many U.S. customers as the premium cable network HBO. The remarks were made in a presentation about the company's business opportunity, which interestingly doesn't mention DVDs at all.
IAC-backed Aereo makes a big play for cord cutters
14 Feb 2012 5:57pm GMT The promise of cord-cutting may get a lot brighter with the introduction of Aereo, a new TV broadcast service backed by IAC that enables mobile devices, set-top boxes, TVs and PCs to receive local broadcast programming over the Internet.
Cisco sees the mobile future and it’s in streaming
14 Feb 2012 1:00pm GMT Cisco has read the mobile data tea leaves again, and it predicts that next year the global population of mobile users will switch to streaming the majority of their content from "the cloud." This will represent a shift from downloaded and sideloaded content.
Take that, Netflix: Hulu premieres Battleground series
14 Feb 2012 8:01am GMT Netflix may have Lilyhammer, but Hulu has Battleground: The TV catch-up service debuted its first original scripted series late Monday night, and will release additional episodes of the series every Tuesday. That's very different from how Netflix presents its original content.
JTS.tv launches Netflix-like subscriptions for indie web series
14 Feb 2012 5:01am GMT JTS.tv is launching a subscription video service for independent web series. That will bring ad-free versions of a number popular web series online for the first time ever, with plans to make them available on multiple mobile and other connected device platforms.