Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of the extremely popular South Park cartoon, have signed an agreement with Netflix that will have the first nine seasons of the show streamed through Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming service.
The deal will give Netflix exclusive rights to the show’s first 181 episodes, added Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey, although neither party elaborated on the financials of the deal.
Over the past year, Netflix has continued to add services and content to its streaming library, which now boasts more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes. The streaming library is now available through TiVo devices, on Samsung Blu-ray players, on LG Blu-ray players and through the Microsoft Xbox 360.
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of the extremely popular South Park cartoon, have signed an agreement with Netflix that will have the first nine seasons of the show streamed through Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming service.
The deal will give Netflix exclusive rights to the show’s first 181 episodes, added Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey, although neither party elaborated on the financials of the deal.
Over the past year, Netflix has continued to add services and content to its streaming library, which now boasts more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes. The streaming library is now available through TiVo devices, on Samsung Blu-ray players, on LG Blu-ray players and through the Microsoft Xbox 360.
The company added recently that despite the current economic recession, they have hit 10 million subscribers while posting a 45 percent profit increase year on year.
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Last July, Nintendo and 54 other companies launched an extensive lawsuit against the makers and distributors of the R4 Revolution device that allows for playback of ROMS on the Nintendo DS.
The popular R4 device is a flash cart and MicroSD adapter that allows user to install the custom Moonshell software on their DS and then load ROMS onto the MicroSD card and play them back on the handheld. The R4 bypasses all Nintendo firmwares and loads the Moonshell allowing the game playback as well as music, movies and even classic system emulators.
Although the R4 can run all sorts of homebrew, most use it exclusively to play pirated games, and Nintendo had noticed.
