Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 8:19pm
YouTube is preparing to launch fee-based subscription only channels starting this spring.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 5:54pm
Gift cards are a great way to get access to some amazing subscription-based Web services available these days. It's a personal, approachable and easy to track down gift that fits a wide range of budgets. We've clipped on a couple simple gift cards to round things out a bit.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 3:41pm
Around this time last year, The New York Times put up its content paywall. Unless you were a subscriber to either its printed papers or digital smartphone/tablet plans, you could only read 20 articles for free per month. Starting next month, you'll get access to half of that.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 2:15pm
Apparently people weren't messing around when they were complaining about Netflix's recent price hikes: Netflix says the company expects to lose one million customers because of the pricing change. One million!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 8:21am
UPDATE: This morning the big rumor was that Netflix would be cranking up the cost of its DVD+streaming plan to $16, up from the $9.99 it was originally. Netflix has confirmed that's what's going to happen. New subs get hit immediately; current Netflix users will have to make a decision by September and can see the changes now in their accounts.
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 4:57pm
As it stands, when you throw down $10 for Hulu Plus, you get access to an expanded catalog as well as the ability to stream the service to devices other than your computer. Well, that offer must not be as enticing as the service hoped, because sources close to Hulu are saying that a price cut could be in the works. But is $5 still too much?
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 6:49am
Right now, iTunes grants users the ability to download tracks and albums à la carte, though many of its competitors — including Microsoft's Zune Marketplace — give you access to all the music on the service for a subscription fee. Turns out, that may be something Apple is interested in as well.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 4:29pm
If you charge someone for something they can get for free elsewhere, a lot of people won't pay. That's the simple reality of it. You pay for a newspaper, sure, but would you, say, subscribe to The Wall Street Journal online, when you could just read blogs? Rupert Murdoch tried to make that happen, but now everyone who isn't him hates it.
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 4:08am
Let's not mince words: Hulu's free offerings have always been awesome, but Hulu Plus — the site's premium content service — has done nothing but confuse things. For $10, you're supposed to get access to a larger library and the...
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 5:34am
Rumor has it that Hulu could begin quietly testing out its fee-supported service, called Hulu Plus, as early as next week. (If all the various content partners can agree to a mutually beneficial plan, that is.) For a service that we all know and love as essentially free, ad-supported television, what's in it for us to start ponying up cash?
