Streaming Bits: Troma Entertainment, Amazon Instant, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, BBC iPlayer
Streaming content is all the rage this days and there’s plenty of tasty news about it today. After the jump read about the following:
Sometimes you just want to watch a dumb, gory, horror movie andTroma Entertainmenthas always been more than happy to oblige. For decades the independent production and distrubtion company has been responsible for hundreds and hundreds of films, most of which you haven’t heard of. (Some of the ones you have includeThe Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke Em High,andCannibal The Musical.) Many of those random films are now available on YouTube, to stream for free, on theTromaMoviesaccount. Thanks toTech DirtviaBoingBoing.
Amazon Instant Videois making a major play to expand its catalog, hoping to compete with the Netflix streaming service. Amazon just signed a deal withEPIX Entertainmentto allow about 3,000 new movies on their service including a slew of new releases. Here’s a sampling viaTechCrunchand head there to read more:
The news of the Amazon/EPIX deal sent the stock prices forNetflixdown today, according to theLos Angeles Times. In the same article, a spokesman for Netflix commented on why they didn’t renew a deal with EPIX:
Huluis currently available onApple TVin the U.S. but, apparently, it wasn’t available in Japan. According toTUAW, that change has finally been made and you can even get a free one month trial.
The BBC has their own App on the Market, theBBC iPlayerbut, up until today, it only allows live streams of BBC shows likeDoctor Who. With a new update today, first reported on inThe GuardianviaAppAdvice, users can now download full episodes to watch when they’re offline. Unfortunately for users outside of the United Kingdom, the global version of the app does not allow that option, but might in the future.
Finally, my favorite Troma film of all time is the aforementionedCannibal: The Musical, bySouth Park/Book of MormoncreatorsTrey ParkerandMatt Stone. They made the film while in college, and it’s very much in the vein of those two defining Parker/Stone projects. Fortunately, it’s much, much, much worse. If you’ve never seen it, here you go. Have a Shpadoinkle day!
