Archive for the ‘Over The Top’ Category

VUDU: The Other Streaming Movie Rental Service

26, Jul 2011

I was reminded of the VUDU service today.  VUDU is a streaming service that lets you rent or buy movies and TV shows and streams them to you.  They started out life as a dedicated box you would purchase that had a portion of the movies on their service cached on the internal hard drive.  [...]

Netflix Alternatives

13, Jul 2011

As you read here, or on some other source, Netflix is raising their prices for the streaming and DVD combo service.  They are raising it from $9.99 per month to $15.98.  From the sound of their blog post on the subject, they are pretty resolute on this change. As always, our members can easily choose [...]

Netflix Raising Prices 60% in September

12, Jul 2011

Or, if you go back in time to the point that Netflix added streaming to the service ($7.99 then) they are effectively doubling the price for streaming and one DVD at a time. Amazon Prime, and their one price for Prime shipping services and streaming, is starting to look more interesting. Prime is $79 per [...]

Audible Bucks the Trend

11, Jul 2011

“And the hits just keep on coming” is what I thought I would be saying when I received an email from Audible.  As you may or may not know, Audible was purchased by Amazon.  When I saw the words “Audible” and “affiliates” in the same email, I thought that was the next affiliate program to [...]


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