Amazon Prime Competing with Netflix
Yesterday I posted that Redbox will be jumping into the online streaming game. Amazon has always offered online streaming but you had to rent the titles similar to iTunes. Starting today though any one that has a paid for Prime account (excluding students) and live in the US you have access to over 5,000 titles to stream from instantly for free. Amazon Prime is $79/year compare that to the new only streaming plan from Netflix at $95.88/year. This is just an added bonus to the awesome perks of Amazon Prime, free 2 day shipping and overnight shipping for $3.99. If anyone can create competition for Netflix it’ll be Amazon.
RDIO Killed The Radio Apps
A metallic tray is placed on a table in front of you. There are two pills. The blue pill will take you to an exploratory eargasm-like collection of music deep in a social universe. The red pill leads to Ping or Pandora. Assuming you chose the blue pill (with that description, why wouldn’t you?) will send you to RDIO, the only music service ever worth paying for.
Redbox to Start Streaming, is Netflix Scared?
This is something I was talking with Nick about a few weeks ago. I have a Netflix subscription with the one DVD by mail. I don’t use the DVD by mail often, or ever, I still have a DVD out for the last few of months that I lost. But Redbox has a service that Netflix can’t deliver, giving me something right now when I am spontaneously craving a movie. With over a billion locations in my hometown (little bit of exaggeration) I just open the app and see what’s in stock at the locations near me. I click on the reserve button and go pick it up knowing that it’s waiting for me. Read the rest of this article…
Movie Review: The Eagle
I took some time to go and watch The Eagle, the new Roman Legion flick starring Channing Tatum and, as I am apt to do, I’m going to go ahead and review it for you!
Movie Review: The Resident
When I first heard of this movie, I really hated it. Not because I didn’t think it was going to be good but because it has Hillary Swank in it. I’ve always detested her because of her incredibly bad acting, in an equally bad role in “The Next Karate Kid” and, for some reason, I never got over that.
Movie Review: 2 Everything 2 Terrible II: Tokyo Drift
It’s difficult to explain the appeal of Everything Is Terrible! This seven-person video collective goes to small-time stores, gathering VHS tapes of the most weird and random content you can possibly imagine. From Nintendo field rep trainings to self-help videos and bizarre, 80s-era children’s programming, the content was already strange enough, Everything is Terrible! makes it stranger. I’ll let this serve as a primer before we move on.
Spartacus : Gods Of The Arena – Week 5
OK…Episode 5 of Spartacus: Gods of the Arena aired Friday night and I have to tell you…I’m not too happy with the direction the last couple episodes have taken.
Saturday Afternoon Bored Time Videos!
I can only assume you are bored so why not waste 10 minutes and check out these awesome videos! Read the rest of this article…
Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out, Borders.
The dust has semi-settled since news of Borders financial troubles and probable demise. And as a result, Borders will be closing 200 of it’s superstores starting this weekend. To give you an idea of the scale of closures, 5 out of 18 stores will be the only operating Borders in the state of Arizona. Are we witnessing the imminent death of the book store?
Movie Review: Unknown
I don’t know how it happened, but European thrillers – plump with car chases, beautiful photography, and even more beautiful scenery – seem inexorably tied to blustery, winter nights here in Colorado. Last year, it was From Paris With Love, the year before it was Transporter 3 and Taken, and so forth. It also seems fitting that Unknown takes place on a snowed-over Berlin: it’s like those dastardly Europeans are tapping into my brain. What I’m trying to get at is, at the end of the day, is this newest Liam Neeson joint worth scraping off the windshield? Hmmm…
