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Netflix vs Lovefilm
FEATURE Video streaming head to head 19 January 2012 17:57 GMT TweetNetflix has landed and immediately gone for the jugular of the most popular movie streaming service in the UK - Lovefilm. Netflix are pushing out an immense amount of content at launch and, like its rival, granting new users a month's free trial to...
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Blockbuster launches 3-week exclusive rental incentive to combat streaming services
Beats Netflix and Lovefilm to the punch 19 January 2012 13:32 GMT TweetBlockbuster in the UK has launched a scheme to turn heads to physical media movie rentals and away from the streamed media offerings of the newly launched Netflix and Lovefilm. Called Exclusives, the range of films on offer have a 3-week window in...
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Lovefilm hits LG Smart TV, fights back against Netflix threat
New platform for streaming 19 January 2012 9:58 GMT TweetThe Lovefilm vs Netflix battle continues to rumble on and it's the former that has struck the latest blow by announcing that it is hitting LG's Smart TV Platform in streaming form.
The Amazon-owned company has stated that it is working with...
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Lovefilm announces new Disney deal to stream ABC
Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy 16 January 2012 12:11 GMT TweetLovefilm has announced a deal with Disney, which will enable it to stream a wide variety of ABC programming to its members, bringing access to some popular American TV, including Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives.
Beginning this month...
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Lovefilm undercuts UK Netflix for unlimited streaming
Good timing 9 January 2012 11:27 GMT TweetThe UK launch of Netflix has only just gone live and Lovefilm has already responded with a price cut for its own unlimited streaming service.
The price for Lovefilm unlimited streaming has dropped to under a fiver - coming in at just £4.99...
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Lovefilm strikes ITV and BBC deals
Watch Spooks and Morse online 6 January 2012 11:10 GMT TweetLovefilm has announced two new deals to add additional content to its Lovefilm Instant service. Deals with ITV and BBC Worldwide will enable customers to access shows from both channels via the Lovefilm service.
Subscribers to Lovefilm can...
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Lovefilm signs deal with Sony Pictures in race to secure streaming market before Netflix arrives
Amazon setting stall for UK battle 21 December 2011 11:52 GMT TweetWith Netflix edging ever closer to a UK launch, Lovefilm, the Amazon-owned movie streaming and rental service, has announced a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures Television to allow it to distribute the studio's films and TV shows digitally. The move...
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Xbox LIVE Gold features free for the masses this weekend
Includes Lovefilm, Facebook and gaming 9 December 2011 12:34 GMT TweetToo skint to get involved with all the Xbox LIVE Gold action but want a taste of the new features? Well then, you're in luck as Microsoft has announced a free weekend of goodies for all Xboxers, even those who haven't ever coughed up for the premium...
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Best Android shopping apps
FEATURE Check it out 2 December 2011 18:01 GMT TweetThe best Android shopping apps come for free. After all, why would someone charge you for one when you're about to spend so much money with them because of it? So, picking a bunch out from the Android Market and downloading until you find the ones...
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Lovefilm ditches Flash: Another nail in the coffin
But for Silverlight, not HTML5 1 December 2011 17:22 GMT TweetWith Netflix's imminent UK arrival casting a threatening shadow over Lovefilm, the last thing that the Amazon owned video rental service would have wanted was to have to reshuffle its PC streaming setup.
But that's exactly what has happened...
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Lovefilm and Warner Bros. deal: More movies coming to Xbox, PS3 and PC
VoD choice expands 17 November 2011 10:32 GMT TweetAmazon has signed a film distribution deal with Warner Bros., meaning film content will be added for Lovefilm (now an Amazon company) subscribers - including more movies on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
The deal is described as a "multi-year,...
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APP OF THE DAY: Lovefilm By Post review (Android)
Not by streaming. Boo. 10 November 2011 18:00 GMT TweetIf those pretty please with sugar on it come back and start paying us again e-mails haven’t been doing the trick, then prepare for another way of getting sucked into renting films until you get stuck on something really worthy that you’re...
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Lovefilm Player for iPad pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON Stream weaver 29 September 2011 15:55 GMT TweetThe Lovefilm Player for iPad is such an obvious and welcomed application that it's a wonder that it's taken so long to arrive. For starters, the look and feel is identical to the service's other portals on Samsung and Sony home entertainment kit and...
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Lovefilm on iPad streams in
More VOD fun for fanboys 29 September 2011 12:06 GMT TweetLovefilm is hitting the iPad - the latest platform for the movie rental service's streaming arm.
The app, titled Lovefilm Player for iPad, has hit the App Store and allows for all the usual VoD-based gubbins such as pausing, rewinding and checking...
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Netflix UK launching in 2012, claim sources
Breaking out of USA 15 July 2011 22:52 GMT TweetNetflix, the US movie rental and streaming service, looks to be coming to the UK according to sources from Variety magazine.
“Netflix is preparing to launch in Europe even though the streaming service didn't include the continent in its...
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