Movie night for Verizon subscribers will have a bold new meaning as the company’s all-fiber-optic FiOS service launches the new movie channel EPIX – on TV and online – on Friday (October 30).
EPIX will be available in standard definition on channel 395, in high definition on channel 895, and on FiOS TV Video on Demand [...]
Comcast, one of the leading US providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced it is launching next-generation DOCSIS 3.0 and making the leap from broadband to wideband in several areas of California, including Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Stockton, Tracy, Tulare, Visalia, as well as Santa Barbara County (see complete list of 83 [...]
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) today announced that it proposes to offer $200 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes, subject to market conditions and other factors. The notes would be due in 2017 and are to be offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as [...]
Circle of Eight, Paramount Digital Entertainment’s (PDE) original supernatural thriller, produced in association with Mountain Dew’s Green Label Studios, premieres today exclusively on MySpace. Three episodes will launch the10-part series, which combines unique elements of gaming and social media to propel the story forward.
Viewers can tune into MySpace at www.myspace.com/circleof8 now to watch the first [...]
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) Home & Networks Mobility business today announced the commercial availability of its Communications Convergence Engine Enhanced Asset Management System (CCE EAMS). Through advanced metadata management tools and workflow management, CCE EAMS controls the lifecycle of video on demand (VOD), non-VOD content and advertising assets within the on-demand network. This new software [...]
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) and Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced that they are joining forces to make thousands of movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system. Netflix expects to begin streaming via the PS3 system next month at no [...]
By Barbara Ortutay
PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.
Sony Corp. and the DVD rental company planned to announce the service Monday and launch it next month. It [...]
By Greg Sandoval
At this point, who could begrudge Reed Hastings and his Netflix management team from celebrating, from performing the corporate equivalent of an end-zone dance?
Wall Street and Netflix subscribers appear overjoyed with the direction that Netflix’s CEO has the Web’s top video-rental store pointed in. The only people who don’t seem pleased with Netflix’s [...]