Tag: Netflix
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Boxee: You had me, then you lost me
I was excited initially when I learned that Boxee, one of the myriad of companies that make smart-boxes that attach to your television set, was coming out with a new device that would incorporate an Over-The-Air (OTA) digital television receiver and a DVR. The company’s new Boxee TV promised to let you not only get free HDTV…
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Watching Mad Men à-la-carte
Like millions of people in North America, I’m looking forward to season five of Mad Men next week. But since I don’t have cable, I won’t be watching it live alone with everyone else on Sunday night. Instead I’ll wait a couple of days for it to be available on iTunes, and buy the episodes…
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Netflix: For people who love TV, not those who are cutting back
A new study by the Media Technology Monitor (MTM) is challenging some of the early worries many broadcasters had about the arrival of Netflix. When the streaming-TV service was launched, there were predictions from some business analysts that one-third of cable consumers might look to cut their cable television packages. Netflix was seen as an ideal service…
Mike Wise 