Category: Netflix News
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Netflix Outlines New Tricks to Offer More Data-Cap-Friendly 4K
In a lengthy and detailed post published on the Netflix Technology Blog, a group that focuses on encoding and video algorithms laid out new techniques they hope will offer up higher-quality video for subscribers. In some cases, their internal testing has offered similar video quality at half the bitrate of their current encoding techniques —…
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Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video the Week of August 31, 2020
This week is especially exciting since tomorrow marks the start of a new month, aka more than the usual amount of new releases hitting your favorite streaming services. Check out everything that’s coming to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video this week below. Here’s everything coming to Netflix this week: September 1 Blue Exorcist (Season…
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Netflix Launches a Free Section with No Subscription Required
Netflix is now offering free access to popular titles including Stranger Things, The Two Popes, and Grace and Frankie. The new free section does not require a Netflix account. Just head to the Netflix Watch Free section to get started. A support page for the free content notes that the titles are available to watch…
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Netflix Greenlights Live-Action ‘Resident Evil’ Series
Netflix announced a new series in the works based on the popular Resident Evil video game franchise by Capcom. The live-action series by the same name will consist of 8 one hour episodes to start and will have a storyline centered in the game’s Raccoon City. The series will feature two timelines following sisters Jade…
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Here’s What’s New on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video the Week of August 24, 2020
It’s the last week of August and that means streaming services are adding the final batch of new content for the month before September begins. Netflix is trickling in some Spanish language titles this week, along with some original Anime and two of Daniel Craig’s Bond films. Hulu is premiering a new original series, and…
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Netflix is Positioned to Lose 2 Million Subscribers Quarterly Over Lack of New Content
Netflix has had a booming year so far when it comes to its subscriber count. The streaming service added more than 10 million subscribers in Q2 compared to 2.7 million during the same time last year. The streaming service now has more than 190 million subscribers in total. But while the numbers are looking good…
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Most Cordcutters Prefer Netflix and Only Supplement with Other Streaming Services
Data shared with us from Reelgood shows that Netflix remains the holy grail of streaming services, with users only supplementing their viewing experience with other platforms despite an array of shiny new options. The main secondary streaming services are Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney+. Out of the Netflix users on Reelgood, the majority hasn’t…
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Here’s What’s New on Netflix in September 2020
You know her as Eleven on Stranger Things, but now she’s Sherlock’s sleuthing teenage sister in Enola Holmes. Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill star in this new Netflix Original coming in September. And if you’re into psychological horror, I’m Thinking of Ending Things follows a young who woman travels with her new boyfriend to…
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Netflix is Selling Tickets to a ‘Stranger Things’ Drive-Into Exhibit This Fall
Netflix announced a Stranger Things drive-into experience based on the show to be held in downtown LA this October. The streamer is putting on the display in collaboration with event companies Fever and Secret Cinema to host this haunted house-like drive-through exhibit that’s pandemic approved. With corn maze’s and haunted houses not likely to happen…
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New ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Episodes will Hit Netflix in October
Earlier in July, Netflix came out with a reboot of Unsolved Mysteries complete with its iconic, suspenseful music and new baffling stories for you to try and wrap your head around. Now the streaming service announced the final six episodes of the series reboot will drop Oct. 19. “Everyone comments about the music!” said Executive…