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

the thing abt the big movie studios and their relationship to digital distribution is they know they have to position themselves for the inevitable future but at the same time they cant bring themselves to turn off the much more lucrative dvd money faucet, so theyre sort of paralyzed watching their empires crumble before their eyes

streaming documentaries? sounds like something the Envelope Pushers are into

i mean something like netflix w/every move ever will in the near future exist, either that or people will turn to piracy, that is the lesson of the music industry

The story last week about the subscriber drop had a venn diagram of stream/mail/both. I'll see if I can find it.

yeah apologies if i'm stumbling in here kinda late and speculating on things that have already been documented

i want to believe that is the case, but i'm worried that a gradual itunesing of taste (the slow push toward available media, and the definition of 'taste' w/in the readily available media) will be more destructive to the weird fringe of movie-dom than it has w/ music.

^ xp to cr?m

This is the diagram from before the 1M revision in subscriber numbers, but I think the proportions are roughly the same.

http://news.cnet.com/i/tim/2011/07/25/chart.jpg

its true the future moviescape could prove exclusionary to art at the v fringes, but overall i think everyones invited to the party cause why no you know longtail etc xp

Could it? I know my taste has grown exponentially thanks to the Internet.

If you already love movies, finding an Ophuls or Chabrol flick that was never released on VHS is a huge part of the excitement.

yeah i think youre basically right here alfred

http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/9/15/saupload_12724_131609569056213_rocco_pendola.png

So 80% of the dropped million is on the mail side.

http://www.splatf.com/2011/09/netflix-qwikster-facts << netflix: lol who tf cares abt dvds

really a very good point that i hadn't considered. i watched all the louis malle documentaries a few years ago after ordering special on greencine when they weren't avails on netflix, and i was so excited i chucked 'em into the VCR straightaway and watched with a greater enthusiasm than if I'd just come across them in the queue.

@Qwikster I'm about to go play soccer n I got stug by a fucken bee

That guy needs to hold out for more than $1K. What a lowball offer.

did the twitter guy really sell for $1k? if people are that willing to let netflix dictate terms, I wonder if netflix could double the pricing but keep more than half the customers...

actually if they lost half the customers, they'd still come out ahead because of reduced bandwidth costs, license per head fees. hmm (thinking of emailing ceo about modest proposal...)

He just said he'd been offered $1K. No indication he's planning to take it.

those diagrams are interesting but i'd much rather see one of what services people are actually USING as opposed to what they're paying for -- for instance people whose Netflix activity isn't 90%+ just streaming or just renting (which i am the latter but am still signed up for both because i've been lazy/ignorant of the changes)

i imagine a lot of the cancelers were just like 'i do not use any of this shit anyway'

good point -- rate hike probably weeded out a lot of people who were like "i've had the same three unwatched discs on top of my tv for the last 6 months"

those are of course netflix most valued customers fwiw

haha also good point

how many of you guys still buy DVD's -- Amazon, wherever?

ive bought like 2 dvds in my life, never understood wanting them tbh

i only buy DVDs if i think they have a lot of ahem rescreening value now -- all-time favorite movies, stuff with a lot of cool extras that i want to watch over a long period of time, collections of TV shows that weren't on for like 8+ seasons

last DVD i bought was Serious Man, before that um uhh this when it was new http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Movies-Gammill-Tinnell-Upchurch/dp/B000CEX30S I guess don't understand owning movies either.

that's how I've become with books too. I'm trying to shift my thinking about music too.

I will buy a DVD if I can't get it on Netflix.

saw/bought the abyss for the first time on vhs recently... it's a very strange movie!

That was my next question. How many of you guys still USE your VCR's?

(I used mine to watch Dead Ringers three weeks ago)

Qwikster
Don't believe that nigga that sed the bought my shyt cuz it aint tru
35 minutes ago

Last DVDs I bought, I think was Twin Peaks series. It was a gift for someone else in my home. This was before it was available via streaming. Other than that, I sold off a lot of my DVDs throughout the years. I just find little need to own a movie or TV series.

see i still buy books b/c i like the physical objects – they are the only thing i have ever collected, and i just like having them around and frequently i lend them out/give them away anyway. i will buy books 4 lyfe. but dvds? movies? videogames? they are totes ephemeral to me

books are self contained units w/o need for an interpretation unit* - just flip open and away you go

*don't even try

yeah i buy books and have never even read one ebook, which lets just say wildly divergent from my standard operating procedure

Everyone I know who has a Kindle loooooooves it but I could never.

good point abt the needlessness of a device

except maybe ~yr imagination~

http://i.imgur.com/WAR96.jpg

I have to confine much of my reading to library books because I don't have the space for the books, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs

aww damn cr?m

lol

last DVD I bought was the blade runner blu-ray 5 disc set, I don't even own a blu-ray player

Enemy Pie eh

a tv show abt reading, gateway drug for post modernism