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Dear Microsoft: Get Netflix on the Xbox 360 and I’ll Buy One
Last week plenty of rumors were floating around about a potential Microsoft / Netflix partnership. The announcement was supposedly going to happen during the keynote address (by Xbox Live exec John...
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Netflix Eliminating Profiles: Tells Us We Don’t Own Our Data
Last night Netflix sent out an email (full text below) explaining that it will be getting rid of profiles. For those unfamiliar, the profile feature allows one account to have multiple profiles. For...
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Match Made In Heaven: Netflix on the Xbox 360
Back in February, I titled a post “Dear Microsoft: Get Netflix on the Xbox 360 and I’ll Buy One.” True to my word, today I ordered an Xbox 360 following the latest announcement. I’m a huge fan of...
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Console Gaming: From the PC Gamer Perspective
About a month ago, I ordered an Xbox 360. My reasoning for not having one has revolved around the fact that I have plenty to keep me busy (in a good way) with PC games. But then came the announcement...
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No Worries, Netflix, You’re Doing Great
It seems that everyone and their dog is reporting on the shipping issues Netflix has been having for the past few days. So I figured I’d add my two cents: I don’t think it’s a big deal. Netflix, if...
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HD DVDs are going away. But should you buy Blu-ray?
The first half of my title is taken straight from the title of an email I received from Netflix a couple days ago (see end of post for text of the email). In short, as of December 15, 2008, Netflix...
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My Social Networking Spring Cleaning
This past weekend I spent quite a bit of time doing some social networking spring cleaning. I use too many services, have too many “friends,” and don’t have good filters to get to the signal I want...
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Why Warner Bros. Swapping HD DVDs for Blu-ray Discs Won’t Work
Warner Brothers had come up with a slick promotion to get some much needed buzz around Blu-ray. My consensus: great idea but flawed execution. Here’s how it works (and why it won’t work): You send in...
View ArticleWhy Is Savvy Media Still Forcing the Form Factor?
This weekend I wanted to catch up on the D8 conference, which is basically a series of who’s who in the tech industry being interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The D8 website has dozens of...
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Netflix Made My Switch to Hulu Plus Easy
Unless you’ve tried really hard to avoid tech news, you probably know that Netflix made two big announcements within the past few weeks: 1) it’s splitting up it’s DVD-by-mail and streaming media...
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