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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ashlee Marie Preston hosted a rally in solidarity with Netflix workers participating in the walkout. brb walking out.

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How Laudville Is Bringing Your Entertainment Life Together

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In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. Phoebe Scott: I started Laudville, because I consume a lot of entertainment of all kinds. What is Laudville?

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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

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Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. First of all, gaming, like other streamed entertainment, has been a lifesaver for many a consumer confined to staying at home during the pandemic. said Evan Feinberg, partner, Tiger Global, in a statement.

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

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The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future. It is essentially a super large screen pad. What does that mean?

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3M and Roku Launch First-of-Its-Kind Streaming Projector | The New Big Screen

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After its January launch of its player, a tiny wireless USB Roku plug in Streaming Stickâ„¢, Roku in partnership with 3M today, unveiled a first of its kind Streaming Projector running on the Roku Streaming Stick, changing big screen forever. Bringing Back Big-Screen. And what a partnership, getting viewers these experience!

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Why Hollywood is Joining the Video On-Demand Market

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What this means is, even though Netflix essentially pays for the rights to stream Hollywood movies, it doesn’t even come close to the money studios make from movie theaters. Indie movies are promoted by building them up around a virtual distributed version of a screening event through social media. It is becoming a global movement.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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We chose Hollywood because we wanted to put top talent from the Entertainment and Technology industries under one roof. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down. The same is true for distribution of content: YouTube and NetFlix are now viable options for releasing original movies and TV Series.