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Is YouTube Erecting a Paywall?
Reports suggest that, by the end of 2015, YouTube will be putting premium videos behind a paywall. Speculation regarding YouTube subscription services has been buzzing around since March, with talk that the video streaming site was aiming to position itself as a rival to Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix, and…
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Netflix Set For Another Price Hike
It seems Netflix is to raise its pricing yet again, according to its CEO. Reed Hastings told investors on Wednesday that the popular video-on-demand streaming service has plans in place to slowly hike up its subscription price. “We want to take it very slow,” said Hastings. “Over the next decade…
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Whistleblower Reveals Hollywood is Exploiting Video on Demand Services
Advocates of video piracy have long justified its existence though studios failing to make their content conveniently (legally) available. Over recent years, positive steps have been taken to facilitate this aim, thanks to high-profile video-on-demand services, such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Instant Video. While great for consumers, it…
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Netflix’s Speed Test Exposes Australia’s Broken Internet
Netflix has compiled its latest internet speed index of the 29 countries it operates in, and the results look particularly bad for Australia. The country, which gained Netflix’s video-on-demand streaming service back in March this year, is ranked 19th out of 29 countries with an average national speed of 2.82Mbps,…
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YouTube Considering Subscription-Based On-Demand Video
YouTube may be expanding its business model into subscription-based video-on-demand (SVOD), according to Variety. The entertainment trade magazine cites an anonymous content creation studio that revealed YouTube is “exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service,” in a similar vein to its YouTube Music Key, the ad-free music…
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Wii U TVii European Launch Cancelled
Nintendo’s plan to launch the Wii U TVii service in Europe has been officially cancelled, with the company citing the “extremely complex nature” of localisation as the sticking point. TVii launched in Japan and North America in 2012 as a rival to the home entertainment systems of both the PS4…
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TalkTalk Buys Blinkbox and Tesco Broadband for £5m
UK internet service provider TalkTalk has confirmed the purchase of Tesco’s loss-making video streaming service Blinkbox, in a deal that includes 75,000 Tesco broadband customers and 20,000 landline customers, for £5 million. TalkTalk have acquired none of the debt accrued by the struggling video-on-demand business. Blinkbox co-founder Adrian Letts has…
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