Falling asleep while watching Netflix is the worst. Invariably you miss all the meat of whatever you’re watching, and snap awake to the closing credits (or your morning alarm). Ugh. But a bunch of Netflix engineers have a (theoretical) solution: a Fitbit hack that pauses your stream when the wearable senses you’ve fallen asleep.
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Any Netflix user will know there are times you doze off mid-show or movie, leaving it to continue playing after you’ve stopped watching — an annoying reality that results in … Continue reading
The proposed $45.2 billion acquisition
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Not so long ago Amazon revealed that it has been working on a concept that would enable them to deliver goods to customers within 30 minutes after an order has been placed. Called Amazon Prime Air, the concept utilizes drones for speedy deliveries. Obviously there’s a top of red tape to go around and a lot of other issues that need to be sorted before Amazon’s drone delivery ambitions can see the light of day, but that won’t stop Netflix from mocking it. Director of engineering at Netflix, Paul Johnson, has posted a video on his personal YouTube channel which is essentially a funny parody of Amazon Prime Air, he calls it “Netflix Drone To Home.”
Netflix Mocks Amazon’s Drone Delivery Ambitions original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Amazon’s PrimeAir drone delivery concept has received its fair share of scorn, but Netflix has waited until now to weigh in with a little snark of its own. The company … Continue reading
A recent internal Drone delivery video (via Engadget) that was made public on YouTube a few days ago shows the Netflix interpretation of how drone delivery might work – albeit with a more humorous and more dystopian take than Amazon’s highly polished vision of Prime Air. Suffice to say, in the Netflix parody video, side effects of home delivery by flying robot might include being… Read More
There has been a lot of debate recently over net neutrality rules placed by the FCC, particularly after a federal court ruling struck them down. Net neutrality warrants that service providers don’t discriminate between bandwidths, so ISPs and telcos can’t promote a service at the expense of regular bandwidth which may lead to an adverse effect on the user experience of their paying customers. Netflix has signed a deal with Comcast whereby the provider will no longer throttle its bandwidth, meaning that customers won’t have to put up with bad quality streams. Comcast has graciously accepted an undisclosed sum of money from Netflix for this, and Verizon believes that the streaming giant will sign a similar deal with it as well.
Verizon Expects Netflix To Sign A Comcast-Like Deal With It As Well original content from Ubergizmo. 
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For those unfamiliar with net neutrality, it’s basically where service providers aren’t allowed to discriminate between bandwidths, meaning that if there is a service that an ISP or telco would like to promote, they cannot do so at the expense of regular bandwidth which could affect the speed and experience of their paying customers. Unfortunately a recent federal court ruling has basically struck down the net neutrality rules placed by the FCC, which meant that as far as Netflix customers are concerned, there have been many complains about a decline in streams. The good news is that could soon come to an end, thanks to Netflix entering into an agreement with Comcast, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
According to the report, Netflix and Comcast have entered into an agreement where Comcast will no longer throttle the bandwidth of Netflix, and will also see Netflix pay Comcast an undisclosed sum of money to have a direct link to the ISP. Apparently Netflix had requested that their servers be placed within Comcast’s data centers itself to take advantage of video caching, while previously Netflix had relied on third parties, such as Cogent, to deliver their data to Comcast in order to stream their videos. It should be noted that this does not mean that customers will have to start paying more for their services. Basically what is happening is that instead of paying Cogent, they are now directly paying Comcast instead.
Netflix And Comcast Sign Agreement To End Bandwidth Throttling original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Earlier today, Comcast and Netflix announced that they’d reached an agreement to help end stuttery Netflix performance to Comcast subscribers
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Netflix will pay Comcast for speedy access to the cable company’s customers, it’s been revealed, with a long-term deal to settle the sluggish streaming many had complained of, but which … Continue reading
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