July 4th, 2012 by Music Ally

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No music angle here, but we've been following the ups, downs and licensing hurdles of films/TV-on-demand service Netflix for some time...

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April 18th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Online TV and movies service Netflix just got a bit more musical, adding nearly 100 concert films and music documentaries to its catalogue.

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January 16th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Out of the 100 top box-office movies in the US for 2011, only 5% are available to stream on Netflix. That compares to 45 available to rent (i.e. pay-per-view streaming) on Amazon, and 44 on iTunes.

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September 2nd, 2011 by Music Ally

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A popular streaming entertainment service having licensing issues with rightsholders? No, not Spotify: Netflix. The movies company has been growing fast in the last two years thanks to its digital offering,...

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June 28th, 2011 by Music Ally

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We heard a great phrase this week: 'Abuse the pipe'. Nothing to do with crack, we promise - it's the phrase used by mobile operators and broadband ISPs to describe services like YouTube, Netflix and the...

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June 9th, 2011 by Music Ally

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With an increasing number of video-on-demand services compatible with the iPad, it's easy to get bewildered or end up defaulting to a comfortably familiar choice. Fanhattan is an app designed to help armchair...

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May 18th, 2011 by Music Ally

Broadband tech firm Sandvine has published its latest internet traffic trends report, revealing which services are hogging upstream and downstream bandwidth in North America...

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May 3rd, 2011 by Music Ally

As if Spotify doesn't have enough to chew on launching in the US and making its newly-restricted free service pay off, now there's speculation that it's also plotting to take on Netflix in the streaming...

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April 28th, 2011 by Music Ally

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Billboard's Glenn Peoples has published a thoughtful article about what the recorded music industry can learn from TV/film service Netflix, which reported strong financials earlier this week....

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