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Netflix Has Lost Half Its Value in Two Months
Posted: September 19, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: because, blame, By, caused, half, has, in, It's, Lost, months, netflix, New, of, Pricing, Result, share, To, two, value
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Netgear NeoTV 550
Posted: September 14, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: hdpostcross, netflix, netgear neotv streaming player, NetgearNeotvStreamingPlayer, ntv200, set top box, SetTopBox, streaming media, streaming video, StreamingMedia, StreamingVideo
Netgear is taking another crack at the SmartTV streaming media circle after the Roku last year. The NeoTV takes the cake if it’s what you are looking for!
The Netgear NeoTV 550 Featured Specifications
System Requirements
- Analog or HDTV
Connections
- Two (2) USB ports (1 front, 1 back)
- SD card slot
- eSATA port
- 10/100 Ethernet
Languages
- English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Media Sources
- USB Storage devices
- eSATA storage devices
- SD memory card
- CIFS/Samba, NFS
- UPnP AV and DLNA Servers
- Windows Media Player 11 Media Sharing
Video and Audio Output
- HDMI 1.3a, 36bpp deep color, 12 bit xvYCC processing and HDCP 1.2 compliant
- Component video
- Composite video
- Stereo analog audio
- S/PDIF optical digital audio
Digital Media File Formats
- Video:
- Codec format:
- H.264 HP@L4.1 up to 1080p
- VC1 MP@HL, AP@L3
- WMV 9
- MPEG-2 MP@HL up to 1080p
- MPEG-4 Part 2 ASP@L5 to 10 Mbps (Xvid)
- MPEG1/2/4 SD
- H.263
- Container format: AVI, Xvid, MOV, MP4, MPEG2 PS, MPEG2-TS, DVD ISO/VOB/IFO, MKV, ASF, AVCHD, DivX, WMV, M4A, M2TS, MTS, MP1, MP2, MPG, DVR-MS, BDMV
- Blu-ray (external USB Blu-ray player not supported)
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD
- DTS 2.0+, DTS HD and DTS HD MA (passthru)
- MP3 up to 320 Kbps or variable bit rate (VBR)
- Gapless playback MP3, FLAC, M4A, M2TS
- WMA8 and WMA9 up to 192 Kbps or variable bit rate (VBR)
- WMAPro, AAC, FLAC (to 5.1, 192Khz), PCM LPCM/WAV (to 5.1, 192Khz)
- Internet radio (streaming MP3)
- MKA
- Photo
- JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF
- Subtitle:
- SRT, SMI, SSA, SUB, TXT, DVD, PGS, VOBSUB, SUB/IDX
Jedi Kittens
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: $2, cat, cats, funny, jedi, kittens, star, two, video, wars
Watch Netflix On Your Android With v1.4
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Mobile Phones, Streaming ServicesTags: Android, android 2.2, Android 2.3, android market, android2.2, Android2.3, AndroidMarket, breaking news, Google, mobilepostcross, netflix, software
Android users rejoice! Netflix has finally come to all Froyo and Gingerbread users.
Source [Android Market]
YouTube Re-launches Music Page With Daily Discovery and Playlists
Posted: August 18, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: and, Daily, discovery, launches, list, lists, music, page, play, playlists, re-launches, relaunches, songs, Tracks, tube, with, you, youtube
YouTube is widely known as the best location to search for songs and create playlists whether it be for home, office, parties or on the go. It’s user base primarily consists of mainstream music listeners who know what they are after. Well now they are cashing in on the music power users who seek the “discovery experience”.
Features
- Recommended videos and artists based on your viewing history
- Local concert listings paired with artist vids
- YouTube’s new music chart ( the YouTube Top 100)
- another level of curation in the form of tastemaker partnerships. YouTube has linked up with Spin, Vice, XLR8R and some of its top music vloggers (Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop for one) to create playlists and offer up picks.
To open shop the RHCP (Red Hot Chili Peppers) are the featured artist who showcased their new video from their recent album “I’m With You”. Also in line to be featured is David Guetta, Lady Gaga and Eminem.
Source [Mashable]
Spotify has 175,000 US Paying Subscribers Worth $1.1B
Posted: August 9, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: $100, 000, 1.1, 1.4, 175, 175000, 175k, Billion, has, investors, Million, paid, spotufy, subsrcibers, Users, worth
Spotify has been state-side for a little over a month now and Americans are eating up the Euro-born music provider. The company is already racking in $1.1B in user fees and landed another $100 million in outside investors support to expand the service. The service reported today it has 1.4 million users in the United States with 175,000 paying for the premium service.
Apple iCloud Live – Pricing Released
Posted: August 2, 2011 in Apple Computers, Streaming ServicesTags: 10gb, 50gb, apple, Free, icloud, is, live, options, packages, Pricing, Upgrade
Apple iCloud’s site has gone live and the pricing scheme has been released.
iCloud is free, and comes with 5GB storage but users have a few upgrade options.
- $20 – 10GB storage
- $40 – 20GB storage
- $100 – 50GB storage
What is iCloud (for those of you who don’t know)
iCloud is an online storage center (managed by by) which hosts your content online and “pushes” it to your mobile devices running Apple iOS 5 or OS X Lion. iCloud is seamlessly integrated into your apps, so you can access your content on all your devices.
Google’s Music Beta Gives Users Two Invites
Posted: July 29, 2011 in Google and Android, Streaming ServicesTags: beta, gives, Google, invites, music, two, Users
For those of you who missed the initial round of beta signups here is your second chance!
If you know someone who has Goolge Music Beta hit them up for invites because all current users were just given 2 invites!
Use the share bar below to spread the word and if you have some post below to spread the wealth!
Netflix Hits 25 Million Subscribers
Posted: July 26, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: 25, hits, Million, netflix, subscribers, Users
Netflix added 1.8 million subscribers in Q1 to hit 25 million subscribers. They also broke records for both its revenues and its earnings in the second quarter with a net income of $68 million on revenues of $789 million. However, they cut their earnings outlook for the next few months since it expects some fallout from its recent price hike (story here).
Netflix letter to shareholders outlined Q1 which ended June 1st and displayed that the recent price increase had little to no effect on sign ups or cancellations. The company also noted the rapid adoption of it’s streaming pointing out that DVD door delivery subscribers for Netflix have likely peaked which is currently it’s highest cost product. As more and more subscribers convert to streaming Netflix cost structure will shrink significantly resulting in increased net income.
Apple And Yahoo Rumored To Buy Hulu
Posted: July 22, 2011 in Streaming ServicesTags: $2, $2b, $2billion, amazon, apple, Billion, Buy, disney, dollars, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, music, rumored, Service, streaming, To, walt, yahoo
Two Apple employees who weren’t authorized to speak publicly spoke with Blookberg stating “early talks that may lead to an offer for Hulu.” Hulu has thrown offers out to several large corporations around the world after declining to proceed with a $2 billion IPO. Hulu also has added two years of exclusivity for the programming on Hulu, consisting of content from the Walt Disney Company, News Corp. and Comcast’s NBC Universal to the successful buyer as well as renewed their current exclusivity rights for another 4 years.
Currently, the bidding is between Yahoo and potentially Apple. The current negotiation with Yahoo is pending transfer of ownership with regards to streaming exclusivity.
Hulu has some “nice technology,” but if it doesn’t come with exclusive rights, Yahoo would probably be better off just submitting a competing bid for the right to stream TV shows and movies. ”It would cost a lot less.”
Disney CEO Bob Iger spent time pitching to Google, Amazon and Microsoft on Hulu but non have expressed interest on entering a second round of bidding.
Google is considered a highly likely suitor for the Web TV site. It has the cash on hand to make a multi-billion offer, and it’s very interested in selling brand ads against premium video content. Google is also already planning to spend $100 million producing premium content for its own Web video site, YouTube.
The primary issue with Google is anti-trust issues that will arise by the ownership of both YouTube and Hulu as well as a quasi-monopoly of the online streaming market. As for Amazon they are in the works of developing their own and it might be less expensive for them to bid on exclusivity rights and use their own technology.
