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Verizon Fios integrates its set-top box with Netflix
As spotted by FierceCable in a Netflix customer support page, Verizon Fios has for the first time integrated Netflix with 3 of its set-top boxes. Now, Fios customers will have native access to Netflix from directly within the cable interface, do not need a smart TV’s built-in app or a streaming TV stick. Before Verizon, …
Time Warner’s perspective on Premium Video on-demand
There has been rising speculation that Time Warner’s (TWX) Warner Bros and other large movie studios are planning for releasing movies for home viewing in as less a duration as 45 days after their release in theatres. A Wall Street Journal report from March 2017 suggests that movies becoming available on premium VOD (video-on-demand) services …
33% of millennials are “very happy” with their cable service and have no plans to Cut the Cord
According to survey data from Furious Corp, 33 per cent of millennials are “very happy” with their cable service and have no plans to cancel. Meanwhile, in the first quarter of this year, “Tier 1 pay-TV providers like Charter added a total of 89,000 subs,” per reporting from FierceCable. Despite the latest reports, conventional wisdom …
