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

do tell?

Just noticed they dumped about 12 discs from my queue into the 'saved' list. These weren't things with wait times earlier this week. All of them fairly recent indie/foreign titles too--Red Riding Trilogy (which isn't on instant anymore), White Material, Somewhere...

Lol recent comment on Walking With Monsters: to any mormons like me this show is very inaccurate and not very educational but the animations are excellent and it always adds in a couple fight scenes

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

fucking hell

haha

hot tipz

5/21/2015: $618.59

lol

SELL

still think netflix is gonna have to be bought out (prob by Disney) eventually but I am damn impressed how long they're keeping the "fattening up to be eaten" period going.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/netflix-raising-1b-in-debt-to-invest-big-in-content-acquisitions-and-more/

i mean raising your debt to two billion for more content when the only place for your income to grow is international expansion? i have to assume this is a Too Big To Disappear thing

none of this is to deny that jesus fuck i wish i bought netflix in 2011

QUICKSTER

this still kills me

http://i.imgur.com/GEEQnYB.jpg

...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.