After the decision to separate its online streaming and DVD-in-the mail services, Wall St.
The Xfinity TV was mainly an answer to Netflix, YouTube and other online streaming providers.
The faster Netflix can shift customers to online streaming the more valuable the stock could be.
It looks likely that the growth in those online streaming licensing costs is much higher.
The online streaming and movie-rental company rose after reporting a fourth-quarter profit Wednesday after the closing bell.
Regulators are concerned over Comcast's possible content restrictions in order to keep online streaming from cannibalizing consumers.
What will happen to customers who get both DVD-by-Mail and online streaming service?
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However, if consumers make a quick switch to the online streaming of videos, then Netflix is in deep trouble.
The US remake, produced by the online streaming service Netflix, stars Kevin Spacey and relocates the action to Washington DC.
It has taken a non-controlling stake in a string of businesses in recent years, from a garden centre to an online streaming service.
The bill could also spell trouble for popular online streaming video and music websites like Grooveshark, Pandora, and YouTube among many.
Amazon is a leading player in digital content and offers e-books, online streaming as well as purchase of music and video.
The trend also reflects, in part, the growing importance of online streaming.
Netflix has been making more and more content available for online streaming.
The company, headed by ReedHastingsReed Hastings, is seeking to move away from mail delivery of DVDs and tap the online streaming market.
But the producers also broadcast the show live to the world on 37 U.S. networks in addition to radio and online streaming.
Today, studios often make only a handful of episodes of many of their popular series available to online streaming services like Hulu.
It is not able to use its leadership in its first business to gain a dominant position in the online streaming business.
Those episodes were critically acclaimed and developed a sizable cult following -- a following that has only grown through DVDs and online streaming.
Hulu offers online streaming of movies and TV shows which are available both for free as well as for a monthly subscription fee.
But the main problem will be competition from big dogs Apple and Google, who have both launched their "TV" systems for online streaming.
The new online streaming format on Netflix gave creator Mitch Hurwitz more freedom with episode length, allowing far more variability than in the TV format.
Not bad, in other words, especially since this is only taking into account Pandora payments, not those from Rhapsody, Spotify, or any other online streaming service.
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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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Its recent attempts to roll out its DishNET satellite broadband service and an online streaming product through its subsidiary, Blockbuster, may prove too little too late, Hodel said.
Online streaming, by which users listen to music either for free or for a monthly fee, is the fastest growing form of music listening, according to industry reports.
But when it came to online streaming, it had to license the content from studios and as the popularity of online streaming grew, its licensing costs spiked 53%.
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However, they say that music and video spending will be hit the hardest, with a predicted 6.3% fall compared with 2012, owing to online streaming and cheaper internet prices.
Comcast is just one example but there are others such as Blockbuster, Hulu, Amazon.com and Verizon who are getting more serious about pursuing the online streaming market.
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Furthermore, Disney and other owners of Hulu announced that they will terminate the sale of the online streaming service, which attracted bidders like Google and Dish Network.
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