Feb 14
Netflix may have lost a few customers in the wake of last year’s Qwikster debacle, but it still has very ambitious goals for subscriber growth: the video service wants to eventually be two to three times as big as HBO, which would equal between 60 million and 90 million domestic subscribers, according to a presentation published by CEO Reed Hastings this week. The slide deck, titled “Netflix Business Opportunity,” is meant to explain the company’s business to potential new hires but it also provides interesting insights into Netflix’s goals as well as its take on competitors and the changing video marketplace.
Hastings remarked in the presentation that HBO currently has about 30 million U.S. subscribe
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Feb 04
For many years, the now-defunct Capitol Theatre in Passaic and the concert promoter behind it, John Scher, attracted some of the big names in rock — including the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Clash — to Northern New Jersey. Below is a clip of Warren Zevon, at the Capitol in 1982, playing an absolutely scorching version of his own “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” along with Bruce Springsteen’s “Cadillac Ranch” (fairly new at the time, since it was included on Springsteen’s 1980 album “The River”). Read full article…
Jan 19
Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo and their film all got Oscar nominations.
Yes and no.
While The Artist, a silent film set in the 1920s, claimed more plaudits Tuesday, including nominations for best picture, director, actor and supporting actress, just nine films made the final cut for best picture, compared to 10 the previous two years.
Analysts say the nominations, which went largely as expected, demonstrated that the throwback film has lost no momentum in the past two months, and that the 2011 slate was anemic, if varied.
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Jan 18
LOS ANGELES – Rapper and “NCIS: Los Angeles” actor LL Cool J will be the first official host of the Grammy Awards in seven years, the Recording Academy said on Wednesday.
“I’m thrilled to be a part of music’s biggest night,” said the two-time Grammy award winning host.
“I will always have fond memories of my first Grammy Awards and to now be hosting the Grammy show, in the company of so many other incredible artists, is a dream come true.”
LL Cool J, who has been the host of the Grammy nominations concert since its first live broadcast in 2008, is the first emcee of the awards program since 2005 when Queen Latifah headlined.
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Jan 11
Increasingly, service providers are looking to make video content available across mobile handsets, tablets, connected TVs, gaming consoles and streaming boxes. So Cisco, which provides networking equipment to a large number of network operators, is hoping to provide some of the technology that will help them move beyond just delivering traditional TV offerings and extending their reach with IP video services.
To do so, Cisco first introduced its Videoscape products at last years CES. Now the network equipment provider is introducing a series of new products that build on its existing platform.
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