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Netflix and Redbox Alternatives

Kori Ellis — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:57:12 +0000

A few weeks ago, Netflix upped their prices and ended up losing a lot of customers. Yesterday, Redbox announced that they too were raising prices — and you can bet customers won’t be happy. Check out these Netflix and Redbox alternatives if you are one of those former customers looking for a change.

Amazon Instant Video
Amazon has a wide variety of shows and movies available on demand. With one click, you can buy an entire season of a show and watch it when you have time. That’s exactly what I’m doing right now with Breaking Bad season four.

Blockbuster On Demand
For about $2 per rental, you can purchase a wide variety of movies or TV shows. With so many other services making customers mad, Blockbuster is suddenly relevant once again.

Hulu
If you love hit TV shows, Hulu is the option for you. Costing only $8 a month, you get a lot of bang for your buck.

Sony Entertainment Network
If you want all your entertainment in one package, check out the Sony Entertainment Network. You can purchase movies, TV channels, TV shows, music and even games.

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What Do You Think of the Facebook Changes?

Kori Ellis — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:55:01 +0000

Unless you have been living under a rock the past few days, you know that Facebook has undergone quite a few changes. And a vocal number of users don’t like the changes — at all. Check out some of the feedback and information on Facebook’s latest “upgrades.”

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Hulu Releases Desktop App

Jason Bean — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:57:00 +0000

More and more people are turning to the Internet everyday for their daily entertainment from the small screen. With the variety of online video content that’s available through YouTube and other video sites, as well as the websites for the major TV networks, you can probably find something you’ve never seen available for the rest of your life.

Hulu has been covered at a variety of angles by b5media‘s authors and on EveryJoe. I first wrote about it back in December of last year when it was in private beta release.

Hulu is now public and they’ve had some mainstream commercials about their service being aired since the SuperBowl. They’ve also recently released a stand-alone desktop application for you to get all the great content from Hulu onto your computer screen without the need for your browser to be open and screen real-estate to be lost to browser controls.

The video quality is outstanding on my laptop. I could easily watch probably hours of TV shows like this. Most of the shows have commercial interruptions but that’s fine with me. I understand that’s the price you pay for free TV.

There’s so much content available on Hulu from recent shows to old stuff like one of my favorite shows as a kid A-Team. The search function could be a little bit better about finding the actual show you’re looking for, but I understand when they try to find close matches.

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Read My Guest Posts

Sravan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:00:59 +0000

Jason was kind enough to accept my guest posts for his blogs Microsoft Weblog and Uncover the Internet. These are my first guest posts ever: one about Microsoft’s involvement with Open Source and another about watching movies legally on Youtube. I hope you enjoy them.

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