Netflix Lets People Know When Their Bad Stream Is Verizon's Fault

The new snippiness is particularly odd because Netflix and Verizon Wireless signed a deal back in April that would ensure efficient delivery for the video giant. Of course, Netflix had already signed a similar deal with Comcast two months prior. But despite what should now be a level-ish playing field for Comcast and Verizon customers, CNET says Verizon FiOS ranks eighth in Netflix's speed evaluations. - Robert Sorokanich, Gizmodo

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Film streaming and downloads to overtake DVD by 2016

The study says that revenue from electronic home video (ie streaming and downloading films) will outstrip physical media in 2016, and that the market for physical media will drop from $12.2bn now to $8.7bn in 2018. They also predict that in 2017 electronic home video will overtake the traditional cinema as the biggest contributor to total film revenue in the US, reaching a total of $17bn the following year – double the $8.5bn the sector currently generates. - Ben Beaumont-Thomas, The Guardian

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Internet TV vitals fade as OnCue’s creator leaves Verizon after only five months

And while large service providers like Dish Network, DirecTV, and Comcast are all reportedly working on their own form of OTT video distribution, those services will no doubt be friendly to the current TV paradigm, requiring some sort of status quo subscription for access. For now, the future of Internet TV is opaque at best. - Ryan Waniata, Digital Trends

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John Oliver's Army Of Internet Trolls Broke A Government Website

On the Sunday, June 1, episode of "[Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]" Oliver issued a rallying cry to angry online commenters to "focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction" against the Federal Communications Commission's proposed changes to net neutrality regulations. The following day, the FCC website's comment system received so much traffic, it stopped functioning for more than two hours. - Taylor Casti, HuffPost Tech

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Safari embraces HTML5 video with DRM, touts longer Netflix streaming

Netflix engineers Anthony Park and Mark Watson explained on the company’s tech blog Tuesday that the playback relies on three emerging HTML5 video standards, dubbed the Media Source Extension, the Encrypted Media Extension and the Web Cryptography API. Previously, Netflix had to rely on Microsoft’s Silverlight to facilitate playback in the browser, which users had to download and occasionally update. - Janko Roettgers, Gigaom

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Motorola's $50 Moto Stream sends music from your phone to your stereo

Motorola has just revealed what it's calling the Moto Stream, a wireless Bluetooth adapter that hooks up to your stereo and can stream music from up to five devices. "While great for on the go, connecting your smartphone to previously purchased home speaker and stereo systems can be a mess of cables and wires and new wireless speaker systems can be expensive," the company said in announcing its latest product. Since it's based entirely around Bluetooth, Moto Stream supports devices across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone — and you won't run into any trouble sending audio from apps like Google Play Music and Spotify to your stereo. Motorola says you can expect up to 300 feet of range. - Chris Welch, The Verge

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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn't 'Cut the Cord'

The journalists note that cutting the cord can save you hundreds of dollars over the course of the year. For example, let's say you now pay $80 a month for your cable TV service. If you drop cable and sign up for a few streaming services, such as Netflix and Hulu Plus, you would spend less than $20 a month. That would be a savings of more than $700 a year -- and you would still be able to watch thousands of shows and movies on the two streamers.. - Swanni, tvpredictions.com

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Twitch Announces Complete E3 Streaming Schedule

[Twitch] has released its full E3 schedule, which begins Monday June 9 with the four big press conferences. The event continues through Thursday, before we pack up and take a long nap. - Mike Futter, Gameinformer

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Study highlights growing energy impact of internet video streaming

"There's going to be an explosion in the amount of movie streaming," [Arman Shehabi,Berkeley Lab] said. "What's happened between 2011 and now is like earth and sky. And on top of so many more videos being streamed, the videos themselves are getting more complex and requiring faster streaming rates. We want to highlight that greater efficiency of the network will be needed to offset this huge demand in bandwidth." - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via Phys.org

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Young Swedes Who Have Never File-Shared Up By 40%

Survey responses from around 4,000 individuals suggest that the number of active file-sharers has dropped in the past two years. Those who share files daily or almost daily has decreased from 32.8 percent in 2012 to 29 percent in 2014. - Andy, TorrentFreak

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Time Warner CEO Applauds Dish's Crippled Internet TV Service | DSLReports, ISP Information

Not to be outdone, Time Warner Cable CEO Jeff Bewkes applauded the limited reach of the Dish Internet TV service, which will be aimed at "young, single people who live alone" and limited to one stream on one device. - Karl Bode, DSLReports.com

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Separating Sirius's signal from streaming-music noise.

Roughly half of SiriusXM Radio's content is talk, according to Maxim Group. That sets the satellite-radio provider apart from peers: Among its offerings are shows hosted by Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey, in addition to news and live programming from nearly all of the major sports leagues. A good portion of that content is exclusive, making it difficult for upstarts to replicate. And unlike Pandora, which pays when songs are played, Sirius owns the bulk of its content, giving it operating leverage. Its content costs are about 18% of revenue, compared with 52% for Pandora, notes Barclays. In that, Sirius is like a high-margin HBO to streaming's lower-margin Netflix. - Miriam Gottfried, The Wall Street Journal

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality

Yes, Net Neutrality the only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are "featuring Sting", and hearing people talk about it is somehow even worse. [..] but here's the thing Net Neutrality is actually hugely important... - John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week - 06/02/14 | TorrentFreak

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Non-Stop‘ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The LEGO Movie.' 'Oculus' completes the top three. - Ernesto, TorrentFreak

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Cutting the cable cord and saving money

Cutting the cord to your cable provider is becoming a hot trend these days. A savings of $90 a month adds up to $1,080 a year. In 10 years — and most people who have cable remain connected for more than 10 years — that's an extra $11,000 in your pocket. We think this is an unstoppable trend. Nielsen's TV rating service, for instance, found that 96 of the top 100 most viewed programs are available over-the-air for free if you simply connect your set to an HDTV antenna. - Bob & Joy Schwabach, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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Apple's Beats buy is two-sided for streaming

Apple could easily devalue music subscriptions by running the service at a loss because it makes plenty of money elsewhere. Apple is likely to advertise and possibly offer bundled discounts to make Beats Music a bigger force. - Ryan Nakashima, Associated Press via Southeast Missourian

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Where to Watch Streaming Video of Apple’s WWDC Keynote | Gadget Lab | WIRED

This year’s WWDC 2014 keynote promises to be one of the most exciting yet. We’ll most certainly get a peek at iOS 8 and the next version of OS X (Yosemite? Big Sur? Bakersfield?). If we’re lucky, we’ll see some new hardware. And if we’re really lucky, Dr. Dre might just close the show with a rap performance. - Pranav Dixit, WIRED

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4K Is Officially the Next Dumb Format War

Despite the many format wars we've had in the past, it seems like companies just don't learn. They're either too dumb, or too arrogant or both. Sony, in particular, has a long tradition of foisting proprietary formats on users and then sending them to their graves when they just don't work out (MemorySticks, Mini Disc, the Reader e-book reader that made it impossible to load your own content onto it, Betamax, the DAT... Sony's list of proprietary failures is endless). - Pranav Dixit, Gizmodo

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Comcast-Time Warner deal may hinge on anemic low-cost Internet plan

Of the 7.2 million low-income families in Comcast’s service area, only 2.6 million are eligible for Internet Essentials, according to data compiled by the Center for Public Integrity. The program requires the participant’s household to include a child who is eligible for the federal school lunch program. Of that 2.6 million, only 300,000, or 12 percent, have signed up since Internet Essentials was launched in 2011. The low participation rate suggests that relying on merger conditions to make private companies provide what has become an essential tool to participate in society may not be the best approach to bridge the digital divide. - Allan Holmes, publicintegrity.org

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