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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Three years, 50 partners, and 13,000 Japanese media assets later, Hulu is drawing one chapter of its international venture to a close. Though the video streaming service isn’t exactly withdrawing … Continue reading
While Google Chromecast, Apple TV, and Roku have shifted streaming content from our mobile devices to our televisions, they’re often incomplete solutions. There’s a whole Internet worth of video content—from news feeds to public broadcasting productions—that the Chromecast just won’t play. But the Qplay will.
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In a landmark deal, Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast for direct access to the company’s broadband system. The announcement comes after months of dispute between Netflix and broadband providers about who should pay for increasing bandwidth loads.
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Notice your Netflix has had a hell of a time streaming in good quality lately? That’s because the companies that carry its traffic can’t seem to agree who’s supposed to shoulder the cost of passing it along, Ars Technica reports.
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Re/code is reporting that Amazon is getting ready to launch an Android-powered web TV box to compete with Roku and and Apple.
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The ability play audio in the background was supposed to come to YouTube last year. It still hasn’t arrived, but iOS users can use a quick workaround.
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Between the surprising affordability
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In case you needed another reason
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The imminent merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast
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