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

netflixes are brought by storks ffs

it was a netflix factory where people package and send netflixes

Guess it's time to send back this Hurt Locker that I've had since November.

My plan just got 8 dollars pricier per month. :(

I got kind of mad, and then I thought "eh, maybe I'll just finally switch to streaming only". And now I'm wondering if that's Netflix's plan after all. If millions of people suddenly switch to streaming only that gives them a lot more leverage when negotiating their licensing deals with the studios.

Hmm, if I deduct streaming (which luddite me don't use that much), my plan would dip to $11.99 instead of (come September) $19.98.

I'm one of many people who practically stopped buying DVDs shortly after getting a Netflix subscription, but nonetheless I worry a bit about what the decline in DVD production means for the availability of older films. The DVD boom drove the restoration, remastering and reissuing of a lot of more obscure titles. What I'm not sure about is whether the fact that Netflix will inevitably be purchasing fewer discs will decrease that revenue even further (I have heard that they pay some distributors a pittance to stream their films, and some smaller labels like Blue Underground and Synapse aren't even offering their new titles on disc to Netflix anymore — probably on the reasonable assumption that more people will actually buy them if they can't rent them). Meanwhile, stuff that never made it to DVD does crop up on Netflix from time to time, but still the "saved" section of my queue seems to grow as fast as anything else. It does seem like despite the benefits of streaming the overall amount of material available to see has steadily declined.

^sadly otm but there are all kinds of other startups that offer shorts, documentaries, indies for streaming or as dvd rental too
it's just less one stop shopping

I've been a Netflix member for over 10 years, it's going to have to go up a lot more for me to cancel my subscription.

Unfortunately most of what I watch is on DVD and most of what my wife watches is on streaming, so we'll be sticking with our more expensive plan for now. I'd be ok with this if netflix made some major increases to the movies they have to stream, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Garu G weighs in

verro152 said...
wow netflix one of my favrit pass times now going to bend us over the table and fuck us with out the curticy of a reach-around!!!! well i theink the people are sending a message now!! NO MORE PEE PEE TOUCH FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 12, 2011 5:02 PM

from my experience, streaming never looks nearly as good as a dvd or blu-ray. it's worth the extra bucks imo http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

Thinking about switching to Blockbuster Online, I like that they've got a contract to send out new movies on the date of release rather than waiting 30 days. Also, I'm never doing Redbox, their selection is worse than Netflix and their movie art substitutions are hilarious.

yeah all these ppl online saying "hello redbox" should just stare at a test pattern and imagine that there's people sayin' shit to each other on the screen because there's no way they actually care about what they're watching

good opinion, aero, but next time you should maybe find a less antagonistic way of saying it, at risk of offending some of your fellow ilxors

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

dave cool has opinions 4 u

Streaming looks fine on my laptop ime and 100x better than via tv antennae which is how I saw star trek tng the first time around

My only problem with streaming is that since the PS3 hack I've been completely unable to get the Netflix streaming to work.

It crapped out for me once, but then I did a system update and now it's fine

Hmm, I've tried two system updates so far but it keeps saying 'this title is not available' for every single movie/show I try to watch.

maybe the movies you're picking are shy

they are shy because they are indecent.

i had the same issue the last time i fired up the ps3; 360 is working fine though

http://www.geekosystem.com/netflix-sharing-charges-more-concurrent/

that post uses the word "seem" a lot

Starz and Netflix are no more? Motherfuckers are gonna make me take my Party Down DVDs out of their case and actually put them in the DVD player to watch them??

Ha, Party Down is the only thing I'm streaming right now; when I finish s2 I will probably go to discs-only for various reasons. I did notice that British comedy 'Pulling' is available to stream, which is pretty cool.

It’s hard for me to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary and best: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to “Qwikster”.

We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name “Netflix” for streaming.

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html

http://i.imgur.com/tMqTM.gif

Qwikster will be the same website and DVD service that everyone is used to. It is just a new name, and DVD members will go to qwikster.com to access their DVD queues and choose movies.

For me the Netflix red envelope has always been a source of joy. The new envelope is still that distinctive red, but now it will have a Qwikster logo.

.... really?

i'm quoting from a blog post from the ceo, so

nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD

ugh. I don't give a crap about the new name, but the queue thing is just a pain. There have been a good many occasions where a film in my DVD queue has turned up streaming, and my queue lets me know that. This is especially relavant re: new releases that go to streaming. I would have wasted a DVD of 13 Assassins being sent had I not noticed that it went up on Streaming almost immediately upon release.

Quikster.

Guk, theyre counting on that

Yeah, I know. The shits.

Anyway, you can't kill Blockbuster and then leave me without an avenue with which to to watch Prom soon after it is released.

http://i.imgur.com/uO5iH.png

<3 pizza imo

ahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Tn8n5CIPk

finding this guys "sorry guys, really sorry" attitude to not be very winning

the video was . . . not good

maybe the dvd version is better

i can't believe they're serious about this, it sounds like a bad SNL joke

http://i.imgur.com/cKevd.png

sqwikster

yeah p sure this is a horrible idea

http://twitter.com/#!/Qwikster

Anyway, you can't kill Blockbuster and then leave me without an avenue with which to to watch Prom soon after it is released.

In the weekly set of coupons I get via snailmail, Blockbuster has supplied a flier for a "Goodbye Netfilx/Hello Blockbuster" 30 day free trial program. This is probably the best thing to happen to them in a long time.