Netflix, Inc. is the world's largest online movie rental service, with more than 10 million subscribers.
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The UK is the third territory to get the movie rental service after the US and Canada.
Netflix, an online movie rental company, currently has a subscriber base of close to 14 million.
Netflix is an online movie rental company that began its expansion in the U.S. by pioneering DVD-by-mail service.
The landscape of the movie rental industry is changing in the U.S. as customers continue to shift to streaming.
Netflix revolutionized the U.S. movie rental market with its by-mail DVD rental service.
Apart from this, it competes with other specialized movie rental companies like Redbox.
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As Netflix grew, it not only benefited from the growth in the U.S. movie rental market, it also stimulated it.
Perhaps everyone that was expecting this retailer to share the same fate as the once popular movie rental provider Blockbuster have it wrong.
The service will put YouTube into direct competition with movie rental services offered by Apple, PlayStation and XBox, as well as subscription offerings like LoveFilm.
However, what was disappointing about the results were the revenue decline in pay-TV business and negative operating income reported by the Blockbuster movie rental business.
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Despite Apple's movie rental push, Blockbuster and Netflix won't disappear tomorrow.
Netflix is a movie rental company that makes film and TV programming available to customers on a monthly subscription basis via mailed DVDs and online streaming.
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You could almost hear the things that people in the music, movie rental and auction business (just to pick three examples) were saying when iTunes, Netflix and eBay came along.
Netflix Inc. is the largest online movie rental subscription service in the U.S. providing subscribers access to a comprehensive library of more than 18, 000 movie, television and other filmed entertainment titles.
In recent years, the best example is Apple (AAPL) which has been a PowerPlay a it single handily altered the course of the music, book, TV, movie rental, smartphone and computing industries.
Almost 30 years ago, the Consumer Electronics Association fought and won a similar battle to preserve the first-sale doctrine from legislation that would have choked off the market for movie rental and would have impeded the development of innovative devices.
The online streaming and movie-rental company rose after reporting a fourth-quarter profit Wednesday after the closing bell.
In the case of one movie-rental chain, the answer is: add pizza.
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The movie-rental company didn't back off a price hike it implemented in July, however an increase for which CEO Reed Hastings issued an apology for failing to explain it better.
Former billionaire Stelios Haji-Ioannou loves winning the good fight, whether battling U.S. movie studios, the car rental industry or travel agents.
Ever since videos became DVDs and digital downloads brought in-home movie delivery to many consumers, the rental business has been a challenging retail niche.
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Founded Tsutaya, one of Japan's leading movie-, music- and game-rental chains.
Movie studios want consumers to buy more digital-movie downloads as DVD sales shrink and digital rental and subscription services, from which studios earn less, gain traction.
The current number one rental on the UK YouTube service is the movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" by well-known street artist Banksy.
With the exception of Spain and Italy, the two countries hit the worst by the economic downturn, 2011 was a record high year for gross box office movie ticket sales despite the increasing number of legal streaming and rental VOD offers online.
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In a clear hint that the company is interested in expanding its position in the video segment, Amazon recently cut a deal to acquire European video rental service Lovefilm, which much like Netflix offers movie and TV shows both by mail and streamed over the Internet.
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Family Video is building a unified online ordering system where just a few clicks will let customers select both pepperoni and a rental copy of Haywire, and get dinner and a movie headed to their house.
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The rental model requires viewers to make two decisions: what movie to watch and if they want to pay for it, or what else they may want to do like go to a movie, or rent from on-demand, etc.
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