Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

...and now premiering a Brad Pitt studio movie.

623.93 -9.29 (1.47%)

if i'm reading that correctly, netflix will pay at least 130% of the production budget to distribute this kind of movie, promising an oscar-qualifying theatrical run (and a p&a budget to promote) in exchange (i assume) for circumventing all potential TV income (if not DVD). That's actually realllly good for an indie production company - guaranteed profit, zero risk. Definitely a gamble for netflix though, but why take out billion dollar loans and not spend them.

curious if netflix is going to make a real go at theaters with these movies or if its assumed the theatrical run is in essence a promotional expense

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

10/25/2011: $77.34/share

4/16/2015: $542.67/share

7/3/2015: 658.31 +2.86 (0.44%)

7:1 stock split coming soon.

10/25/2011: $77.34/share

4/16/2015: $542.67/share

7/3/2015: 658.31 +2.86 (0.44%)

7:1 stock split coming soon.

...and now $109.86 share (x7 for the 7:1 split)

Stock lost 7.5% on Friday (closed at $103.96), soooooo...

Down to $88.65 yesterday...

and now at $106.22

They're launching five-minute kids' shows specifically for kids at bedtime. Smart idea.

Our routine is "Just one more episode of Wild Kratts and then as much Neil Degrasse Tyson as you can watch until you zonk out." Yeah, maybe not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, but she can identify the Pleiades and discursively explain the difference between alligators and crocodiles.

They did something similar on New Year's Eve with a fake countdown to get the kids to go to sleep already.

I've been wanting to check out Dinotrux anyway.

BUY BUY BUY

I regret adding the Quikster bit to this thread title.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/expect-netflixs-second-quarter-report-000000881.html

Netflix, Inc.

NASDAQ: NFLX - Jan 19, 2:38 PM EST

139.01USD

... x7, right?

Yes!

And now for a trip down memory lane:

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter: Sell Netflix, Buy Blockbuster

this whole article is totally bonkers but i had to stop and just stare out the window for a little bit after getting to this paragraph https://t.co/p7T1EvXSqG pic.twitter.com/PoF261ckDX

— killsey sutton 🔪 (@kelseymsutton) October 25, 2018

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM (3 months ago)

Netflix is up more than 40X this decade making it by far the best performing public stock of the decade.

In previous decades:
2000s - Medifast (~93X)
1990s - Dell (~92X)
1980s - Circuit City (~93X) pic.twitter.com/ra4RURCQHQ

— Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) December 23, 2019

What stock will do this in the 20s?

Juul

Would be a rollercoaster if DJP had bought in 2011. Down 25% after hours today, lowest since February 2018.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170740799/netflix-ends-dvd-by-mail-service

I held onto the DVD service until last year. I'd told myself that it was the only way to watch some titles that weren't available on a streaming service, which was true. But I hadn't realized until a few years ago just how many movies can now be easily rented to stream via Amazon or Apple or whatever. Combine that with the selection of services like HBO and Criterion, and there's not much I feel like I'm missing out on without the DVD subscription.

Yeah pretty much a cornucopia out there at this point. Not truly universal, but increasingly the options whether via individual rentals or subscriptions are pretty remarkable.

you can find really weird stuff on Tubi too, I saw Antonioni's The Passenger on there last month

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdmVtbtWIAIgETu.jpg

Breaking my silence to say this sucks.

idk maybe it’s because my tastes are targeted toward obscure trash but the digital rental situation is still pretty dismal imo

I agree tbh, not that relying upon physical media was always so great but it's astonishing to me how much easier it was for me to track down (for example) Hong Kong films in the late VHS/early DVD era. Not that the physical media isn't still out there but it's much harder to track down something to buy, and impossible to rent.

20 plus years ago I found it remarkably easy to dig up some Billy Tang movies I wanted to see

though i haven't used the netflix dvd service since 2010 so i'm part of the problem, and my issues with digital rental are as tied up in the nature of region-oriented legal rights, artificial scarcity, blah blah blah as much as they are with streaming itself, though i think they're all interrelated systems that i am personally victimized by, keeping me from watching splatter: naked blood with ease or keeping any number of cheap '80s horror films that have been recently remastered by arrow/vinegar syndrome with a poorly-transferred DVD/VHS rip as their primary digital versions

xxp

I don't want to harangue companies for elevating obscure trash to a certain level of quality but there are a lot of films I used to see in the past for really cheap which are now released in these exorbitant special editions and honestly I just can't afford them

Yes, there's far more films on my watchlist that aren't streaming anywhere than are. Otoh there's always piracy - at the end of the day it's not like you're giving the artists much money anyway when you're streaming some 80's Hong Kong joint.

Maybe the cousin to the new vinyl reissue movement where dollar bin records are now repressed in these $36 editions and what it winds up doing is escalating the prices of those $1 records along with them

The boutique blu ray market is prob as great as it's ever been but yeah you gotta be a Soldier of Cinema, pre order because it's gonna sell out, deal with exorbitant prices.

I'd argue the upgrade in terms of quality from dollar bin DVD to blu is usually a lot more clear than a lot if those vinyl reissues. Also the extras clearly much better value than with vinyl where half of the time they don't even throw in some new liner notes.

Yeah I mean one can't really compare arrow/shout factory to plain recordings or whatever, the former really do the work. I guess the similarity is where media becomes a boutique market and less accessible financially.

it's kind of astonishing how long their DVD mailing service lasted, considering they de-branded it, didn't promote it and basically tried to suppress all knowledge of it

It must've been somewhat profitable for them to keep it going into the 2020's

Well, they killed off all their rental competition, aside from Redbox (which is long ke barely going rn, and only really had an edge on new releases anyway).

I still watch as many films on DVD as on streaming services. I am lucky to have a decent public library in my city, which is linked to a huge network of other libraries throughout the metro area. As long as one of the linked libraries has a title (and they rarely come up empty no matter how obscure my request is) I can have it delivered to my local within a few days.

It's sad because to me this was something the Internet _got right_

I still miss the days of being subscribed to the DVD service, I was still office-bound so I'd just take the envelope into the office and fly through dvds every week. granted, I'm sure based on the comments above that the inventory got massively shitty, but it was pretty good when this thread was new.

digital Netflix is a Cyclopean chasm of boredom rn.

everything's a damn Netflix original and it either stars Adam Sandler or some guy who played Cocaine Dealer #3 on C.H.I.P.S as the star

and right now there are a grand total of 36 films from before 1980 that are available to stream

jesus

At this moment, Netflix is streaming about 3800 films - less than half of what the average Blockbuster used to carry.

As for films made before 1990? Only 79 titles are currently streaming. If we go to 1980 or earlier, that drops to 36 (!)

✨PHYSICAL MEDIA STILL MATTERS✨

— Kate Hagen (@thathagengrrl) April 18, 2023

out of all streaming services, I think I use Netflix least of all, I keep it purely for my folks. right now most of their investment seems to be in standup

I am lucky to have a decent public library in my city, which is linked to a huge network of other libraries throughout the metro area. As long as one of the linked libraries has a title (and they rarely come up empty no matter how obscure my request is) I can have it delivered to my local within a few days.

― henry s

this is what i also do but there's lots of stuff nypl doesn't have and many of the dvd's are trashed and won't play through. anything the least bit kid-friendly is basically a shiny frisbee.