Netflix must be really laughing its ass off right now, as everyone trying to watch the season finale of True Detective complain about HBO GO not being available. HBO GO has crashed—it’s been deader than Rust Cohle’s soul for the last three hours.
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Netflix has planned a new thirteen-episode series revolving around the legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar. Essaying the Colombian dealer is Wagner Moura and to direct him, RoboCop remake director Jose … Continue reading
Today the entirety of the current collection of Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated episodes is ready for devouring on Netflix. This is part of an initiative in which Netflix … Continue reading
Netflix is steadily building up its library of original programs and many of them are of the same quality, if not better, than what you can watch on normal network … Continue reading
One of the more annoying things about Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon’s television streaming libraries is the vast difference between the selection available. It would be almost impossible to get a thorough idea of who has the better library without searching for hundreds of TV shows on each service and comparing them manually. So we did just that.
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Gamefly, the video game rental service provider, has decided to move into Netflix territory by introducing a new movie rental business which ought to prove to be a worthy competitor to Netflix’s disc-by-mail business, although that remains to be established. I suppose giving them some time to do so would help, so we will have to be patient in this particular case. Gamefly started to notify its existing customers concerning this particular service over email, at least according to a post on NeoGAF. Right now, this movie rental business is in beta mode, where the service has DVDs as well as Blu-ray discs on offer to those subscribers. Similar to its game rentals, subscribers will be able make a request for either one or two movies at any one time, and there is no need to start a separate account. That is a good thing, since it means one less username and password to remember.
Gamefly Launches Movie Rental Business original content from Ubergizmo. 
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At the request of users, GameFly, the video game rental service, is going toe-to-toe with Netflix, taking the wraps off its new movie rental service. GameFly subscribers were introduced to … Continue reading
Been watching season two of House of Cards? The answer is yes. So you know how beautiful the cinematography is. In an interview with Go Creative, the Igor Martinovic, the show’s cinematographer tells how he crafted the show’s unique visual style.
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Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher, has discovered a new Netflix tech support scam where the hackers are after users’ login credentials. That’s just the first step, it evolves into a very elaborate scam from there on out, its been laid out in such a way that unsuspecting victims might even willingly give them remote access to their computers as well as show them photo ID, which could constitute a huge identity theft risk. Segura has documented the entire scam after playing along with the hackers, and has even created a video detailing the entire ordeal.
Netflix Tech Support Scam After Users’ Login Credentials original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Netflix recently held a Hack Day for its engineers to come up with tweaks to the popular streaming video service. Even though the activity was made primarily for fun, one of the resulting hacks is quite promising: a hack that uses information from a Fitbit to detect when you fall asleep and then pauses the video in response. It could give lazy people a reason to buy a fitness tracker.
Made by Sam Horner, Rachel Nordman, Arlene Aficial, Sam Park and Bogdan Ciuca, the Sleep Tracker not only pauses the video but also makes a bookmark of that point. And then it’ll report the boring video to Netflix. Just kidding. It should though.
Netflix makes no guarantee that the hack will make it into their software, specially since not everyone has a Fitbit or fitness tracker in general. But wouldn’t it be nice if all displays had this technology built in? Check out the Netflix blog to see more hacks from their engineers.
[via TechCrunch]
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