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

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

I still buy DVDs occasionally (big Criterion order late last year, Sergio Leone box, Little Rascals box) but fewer and fewer as time passes. My wife seems to be willing to drop a $5 bill on any old shite, and still buys season sets for one or two series that she watches, but rewatching tv shows ad nauseam is a depression staple for her. She's probably watched every bit of Buffy six or seven times.

the job i am most made for in the universe is as replacement host for reading rainbow but i am not a candle next to the awesomeness of cosmic guy levar burton

loool when markers linked to @Qwikster last nite dude had like 43 followers and he has 4200 now

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

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"

― some dude, Monday, September 19, 2011 5:52 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was this guy. also because i was out of town when the deadline hit for sending em back, i became the proud owner of Powwow Highway

Hey u changed my thread title

http://twitter.com/#!/Qwikster/status/115937488559816704

XD

http://twitter.com/#!/Qwikster/status/115945170419187712

I think there's a little bit of prescience with the decision to split though. DVD in the mail is still dependent on the US postal service and when that finally collapses (everyone seems convinced that some sort of crisis is at hand) it would have clobbered old Netflix's financials.

More here: http://www.splatf.com/2011/09/netflix-qwikster-facts/

so I'm one of the "three disks on top of the tv for months" DVD cancellers for streaming only. BUT - I was going to add the DVD option back in because the minute I went streaming only, the fuckers dropped Dexter and I'd only watched the first season.

Now I've got to sort out if it's worth it to get a Roku or some other device that will get me access to the free Amazon Prime instant streaming (not supported by Tivo) vs. Quikster (what a terrible name) or just paying the $2/ep or upgrading the cable or what the fuck other options there are out there.