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Netflix Updates its Playback Service to Stream Video More Efficiently 24 December 2014
Netflix updated its Playback Service, the internal name of Netflix’s system used to ensure quality video streaming with technology that can split up complex tasks into smaller tasks. Upgrading and ensuring a smoother streaming experience couldn’t come at a better time for Netflix, who just announced that it will be launching in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, …
Netflix’s Orange is the New Black Got Pirated More Than 60 Million Times 24 December 2014
Orange is the New Black isn’t just popular with Netflix’s 50 million subscribers: Episodes of the show were downloaded from P2P networks 60.8 million times in the second quarter of this year. This makes Orange is the New Black the third-most popular TV show eclipsed only by The Big Bang Theory and Game of Thrones. However, if you compare …
Netflix Now on Dish’s Hopper in First Big pay-TV Partnership 18 December 2014
Subscribers to Dish’s satellite TV service can now access Netflix right from their set-top box. The partnership is a major strategic coup for the online video service and reflects a new level of integration between online and traditional TV. Netflix will now appear for all Dish customers using a second-generation Hopper box and will feature the same user interface as …
