The online film rental and streaming video company Netflix continues to expand. The company announced that it has extended its streaming TV and film service to Mac users, while noting that Mac customers would need to install a Microsoft software component in order to stream films and TV shows with the Netflix service.
Netflix Brings Streaming TV to Macs - With Microsoft’s Help
CBS Brings Full Length Programs to YouTube
CBS has partnered with YouTube, the Google owned online video phenomenon, to broadcast some of the companies television shows online. The official announcement states that the selection of shows will be limited for the time being, but is expected to expand in the near future.
Amazon Introduces Video on Demand to Compete with Netflix
Despite a somewhat sluggish US economy, online mega-retailer Amazon.com continues to thrive, and is expanding their range of goods and services. Amazon’s latest venture is an online streaming video on-demand service that will directly compete with Netflix.
YouTube 2.0: Live Streaming Video?
There’s just no denying that YouTube has been a phenomenal success online. Although many members of the YouTube community feared that being bought out by Google back in 2006 would “ruin the YouTube experience,” by and large, Google has been good for YouTube, and the online video site has continued to flourish.
Will Rising Demand for Streaming Video Crash the Web?
There have been rumors about a looming Internet “crash” for well over a decade now. Back in 1995, a few IT professionals claimed that the increasing popularity of the net would crash the entire system by 1996. Meanwhile, 12 years later the Internet has proven (mostly) “uncrashable,” though there are concerns surfacing yet again that the Internet is heading for a fall. And this time, even the FCC is taking them seriously.
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