Warming Glow asked the service a bunch of necessary questions, but the answer to this one is most surprising:


2) What precautions have been taken to ensure Netflix Instant can handle the simultaneous streaming over Memorial Day weekend?

Here’s the short answer: We handle millions of streaming hours everyday, this is business as usual.

Here’s the technical answer:

This is not much different from other launches, be it titles or technology features. We continuously release new shows and movies on Netflix, we have a lot of experience doing that. We use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud to deliver our user interface and content delivery networks for the video. Both are designed to scale and deliver a great experience. We will have a room full of people to monitor and ensure that the show is available and streaming, we do that for every big show as well as any upgrade to our service such as technology feature releases.

Seems to me this launch stands to be much bigger than others. Hmm.

No more streaming services. For the love of Zod.

heartline-twist said: What bothers you about streaming services? What other mechanisms would you like to see content providers use for legal content distribution?

I’m not against streaming services as a principle (Netflix is great and is the future.) I’m against the over abundance of streaming services and how every media company has one for their own content, preventing there from being one place to stream every movie and TV show. 

Imagine if instead of Spotify, you had to go to each record label’s own streaming service to listen to their music.

Just what we needed, another streaming service.

notnadia:

Hooray? Terrifying number that I still occasionally wrap my brain around: the Nielsen sample is less than 25,000 homes. %.008 of the American population. I would LOVE to see what the profile of an “average” household is. Or how it is stratified regionally. Or- yeah. Ads are terrible, everyone revolt.

(Source: synecdoche)

AMC Nets has struck a deal with Netflix that will bring more of their programming to the streaming service. Starting today season one of The Walking Dead will be available, with shows such as  Portlandia and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret coming right before the debut of new seasons.

Univision and Hulu have inked a multi-year content agreement that will enable the U.S. Hispanic media giant to flood the online marketplace with its primetime TV shows and library content, including Televisa programs.

The pact is being touted as the first time a major Hollywood content provider has chosen Web streaming over pay TV.

geminitactic:

No Netflix member is limited to less than two concurrent streams. A few Netflix members have heard differently from us, which is an error that we are correcting.

Crisis averted. 

For families that share accounts and want to be able to watch more than one instant stream at the same time, they’ll have to sign up for an additional Unlimited Streaming account at $7.99 a month or increase the number of DVDs in their package. To get two streams, you need to pay $19.98/month for two DVD’s at a time, or $23.98 for three streams and three DVDs, or four of both for $29.98.

Not good for Netflix subscribers or proponents of online video streaming.