Warner Brothers now streaming movie(s) through Facebook
With Amazon.com recently launching a 5,000-title streaming service through Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus gobbling up exclusives like selections from the Criterion Collection (150 titles now, 800+ later), the competition to loosen Netflix’s grip on the streaming market has intensified greatly within the past couple of months. It’s been no secret that Hollywood studios are unhappy with Netflix and have been looking for alternative ways to suck consumers dry bring their magnificent product directly to the public. To that end, Warner Brothers has introduced a new Facebook application that allows users to stream from the popular social networking site. Users pay for the movies with Facebook Credits, and a rental costs 30 credits or $3. Alternately, they can also use 30 tickets from a SkeeBall machine. (Scratch that last one. We’re told that’s only enough for a plastic comb.)