Binge-watching
78% Indians prefer streaming shows on TV, comedy most watched: Study
The report highlighted how access to thousands of shows on various streaming platforms, including Amazon Prime, Netflix among others, has fueled the rise of binge-watching culture
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Netflix forecasts an end to borrowing for financing projects, shares surge
Netflix said it will explore returning excess cash to shareholders via share buybacks. It plans to maintain $10 billion to $15 billion in gross debt
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Saif Ali Khan's Tandav to Family Man S2: 5 shows to binge-watch in 2021
As more movies and web shows line up for release in the post-lockdown era in 2021, here are the 5 Indian web-series to watch
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Bingeing Netflix? Here's why streaming comes at a cost to environment
Data-intensive video streaming, gaming and livestreaming for business, university and school classes, is chewing up energy
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Binge-reading and -watching
Binge-watchers filling up empty days may ask: Why read a book when there's the movie? Apart from putting the cart before the horse, it's a lazy question
Binge-fight the virus with the best online shows and films going
Nikita Puri lists the best shows and films to watch online as you ace social distancing
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The lure of binge-watching
When Reed Hastings, CEO of video streaming service Netflix, visited India earlier this month, there were reports that Indians were the fastest in the world when it came to binge-watching popular shows such as Narcos or Jessica Jones. Whereas the global average was four days, Indians were likely to gobble up multiple episodes of such television series in three days. I received this news with the joy addicts feel when they come upon other addicts. For in the last few months I've gorged on shows like The Crown, The Good Wife, The Fall, Black Mirror, Orange Is the New Black and much else on Netflix. I've made a giant's meal of them, consuming several episodes of a single show (along with gazillions of data) in one sitting. When I've finally switched off the TV and thrown down the remote at two in the morning, it wasn't guilt that made me do it. Nor the realisation that I had become a hyper-vegetative couch potato. It was my eyes - they were smarting.The term binge-watching, or watching ...
