How the Netflix Split Affects Consumers

Sep 24, 2011 by

Netflix announced plans to split its disc and streaming operations into completely separate services, renaming its disc service to Qwikster. How will this change the services that Netflix customers are used to?

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Netflix 3DS Review

Aug 31, 2011 by

Netflix is just about everywhere now. It is built into just about every blu-ray player, video game console, television, set top box, and now even cell phones. So it only makes sense that Netflix would become available for the brand new Nintendo 3DS. It has a widescreen display, WiFi built in, and...

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Reminder: Netflix Rate Hike Starts September 1

Aug 31, 2011 by

The Netflix rate increases go into effect on September 1. Will you be changing your plan?

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Entertainment 2.0 #141 : Hauppauge CableCARD Tuner and More!

Aug 26, 2011 by

For Episode 141 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast Josh Pollard was once again joined by Richard Gunther. The news this week continued to center around CableCARD tuners for Windows Media Center, but fortunately Josh finally got his hands on one! The guys kicked off the show by discussing Josh’s...

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Netflix HD on Atom Workaround

Aug 21, 2011 by

Chris Barnes, over at Barnesian.com, has found a workaround that allows him to watch Netflix instant streaming content on his PC despite the fact that it is powered by the diminutive Intel Atom processor. Basically the workaround is to tell Netflix to limit your “video quality.” This...

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Entertainment 2.0 #139 : Dolby, Skype, and Mobile Gaming

Aug 12, 2011 by

Episode 139 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast had Josh Pollard welcoming back everyone’s favorite globe-trotting hipster: James Montemagno! The start of the show was absolutely packed with lots of great emails from listeners who brought a lot of extra insight into the topics we’ve been...

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Media Center Netflix Play Button Missing – Work-Around

Aug 8, 2011 by

Netflix is, by far, one of the best plugins available for Windows 7 Media Center! It is one of, if not the best, versions of Netflix available on any device. So whenever there is a problem with it there tends to be a very large roar of frustration from around the interwebs. Just last month there...

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Entertainment 2.0 #135 : Netflix Hike, Remote Potato HD, and Remotes

Jul 15, 2011 by

Episode 135 of the Entertainment 2.0 podcast makes it three episodes in a row where things have gone smoothly! This week Josh Pollard was joined by fellow DMZ writers Richard Gunther, and joining the show after a long absence was James Montemagno!  As usual the show started off with two great...

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Netflix Rate Hikes Now Fast and Furious

Jul 15, 2011 by

Netflix introduced new rate hikes that have customers up in arms. How much has your monthly subscription rate changes over the past 10 years?

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This Week on Netflix – Star Trek

Jul 8, 2011 by

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Yes, it’s finally on Netflix. Not long ago the...

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Netflix Working Again

Jul 2, 2011 by

For the last three days if you tried to watch anything on Netflix through Windows Media Center you would receive an Authorization Failure error message that stated: “Our apologies – we could not authenticate this request.” Apparently the error was also affecting some other...

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This Week on Netflix – No Reservations

May 27, 2011 by

If I say Travel Channel, you probably think of a Royal Caribbean cruise, or an elaborate hotel and other typical vacation ideas because that’s what normal people do when they travel, we vacation. Anthony Bourdain’s Emmy winning show spans 9 series of hour long excursions into the core...

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