Netflix plans to publish statistics about which ISPs are best at delivering “the best, most-consistent high speed Internet for streaming Netflix.”

January 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Good news for the Bolen household:

If you’re an executive at Charter Communications, you’ve got nothing to worry about. The only early tidbit Hastings revealed about tomorrow’s post is that Charter was the top-performing ISP. But for bandwidth providers further down on the list, the disclosure could prove embarrassing. How much do you want to bet that some of the poorer-performing ISPs are the ones giving Netflix the hardest time about streaming costs?

I bitch all the time about Charter’s lack of important cable channels (ahem – the NFL Network), but I’ve never had a problem with Charter’s internet. I’m consistently pulling about 29Mbps, and that’s just fine with me.

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Who’s on top and who’s on bottom, Blockbuster?

December 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

So Blockbuster laughed off a Netflix partnership back in 2000. Heh.

“I remembered getting on a plane, I think sometime in 2000, with Reed [Hastings] and [Netflix co-founder] Marc Randolph and flying down to Dallas, Texas and meeting with John Antioco,” McCarthy said in the interview “Reed had the chutzpah to propose to them that we run their brand online and that they run [our] brand in the stores and they just about laughed us out of their office. At least initially, they thought we were a very small niche business. Gradually over time, as we grew our market, his thinking evolved but initially they ignored us and that was much to our advantage.”

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Mother of all Claim Chowder

November 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The EFF is now $2,000 richer thanks to a bet made in 2002 about Video on Demand services.

A profitable video-on-demand service aimed at consumers will offer 10,000 titles to 5 million subscribers by 2010.

That VoD service is Netflix.

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