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

http://i.imgur.com/OEwRG.png, me

marker's google thing rocked this thread the fuck out imo

the joke is actually louis cks

netflix is pretty much a monopoly though, right? who's gonna teach gramma to torrent? (i did teach my dad to torrent and now 100% of folks bandwidth is torrents)

netflix strategy http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/netflix-business-opportunity-5854575

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

lol

fail

sounds like they succeeded!

but that's a totally different argument from "you shouldn't complain about netflix or change your service because DVDs and video streaming are a first-world luxury"

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:13 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

i did change my service! and it's cheaper for me now!

http://i.imgur.com/s1sbx.png

lol glwt

ppl are just not being visionary about this, and unfortunately thats going to screw everyone in the long run, the consumers, the studios, everyone except for ISPs and cell companies, but whatever, when gibbon 2999 writes his decline & fall let it be known that i was on the side of the good and the righteous

^^max is definitely doing some thought leading itt

the canadian netflix clone, zip.ca, charges $25 per month and claims that their cost to ship a single disc out is over $2

hate to be all who is john galt about this, but who is gibbon 2999?

i think he is referring to the author of the decline and fall of the roman empire

gibbon 2999 is the person in the year 2999 who writes about the decline and fall of the american empire

bread and games, y'all!

our own postal service (which is even more MIRACULOUS and cheap) may cease to exist as we know it someday soon so maybe the question of netflix mailing dvds at all will be moot anyway

vahid on-point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon

i was picturing super-intelligent future monkey...

we do not know what the future holds, philip

Some kind of ape planet most likely

isn't that the present?

i'm member of an apelike race at the asshole end of the 20th century; this film's a thriller of the mind.

haha Conan started to tell a joke about Netflix and the mere mention prompted boos -- he went on a whole "now we've got our priorities straight as a country" riff and started acting Lewis Black-style angry about Netflix

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/netflix-stock-9-4-as-wall-street-wonders-how-low-it-can-go/

I was disgusted by the arrogant email of a 60% increase for streaming and one DVD by mail so I cancelled upon receipt of email. At the same time, They lost streaming content from STARZ and now Disney, so they have NOTHING better to offer than any other streaming content competitor. It is a good deal still, but the insulting way of presentation just pi$$ed me off. I am now exploring other venues, HULU, Blockbuster, Amazon Streaming, but they are all the same as NF, so-so content of TV series and "B" movies. But, I would still rather pay Blkbstr or HULU more to bring them back to stomp NF, but I think that it's a planned tank by NF, so someone else buys them. aka wall-street suicide, but could be a total setup by Greed Hastings to dump DVD by mail (a, the USPS is failing, b, younger demos for streaming. c. International streaming new audience = big bux)so they get bought out and every stock holder collects. On the Big Board, Nflx has gone in the last 3 weeks from $350/share to $130/share at closing today. I am watching like a hawk to see how it plays out. Who else is watching this wild ride???

im telling you guys, buy buy buy, i wish i had money

the thing is you dont really need to guess at hasting's motives here--he's been really clear, basically since the start of the streaming service, that he wants to dump the DVD-by-mail business entirely, as soon as its feasible

They lost streaming content from STARZ and now Disney, so they have NOTHING better to offer than any other streaming content competitor

netflix has between 20k and 30k titles streaming, costs $9/mo
amazon has between 5k and 10k, costs like $75 a year?
hulu has between 2k and 5k, tv and movies, and costs a dollar more than netflix

researching that i came across this totally clueless blog post

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-does-netflix-possibly-survive/245317/

morelike netfmax

yeah i dont know why i am treating netflix like i was treating apple when i was in 9th grade

http://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150304609004584

yeah i dont know why i am treating netflix like i was treating apple when i was in 9th grade

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:23 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

braggin

haha sorry i meant that in a sad "why am i defending a huge corporation on the internet at 3:30am" not in a "im a stock wizzard" stylee

eh it's no worse than arguing about sports or something.

I dunno what will happen to the stock or whatevs (I'm still skeptical in general about them providing high quality streams when isps start fucking with them/us), but this is an unmitigated PR disaster. It's hard to come up with a name that combines the horribleness and forgettableness of "qwikster."

every time i looked at this thread's new title i'm like "ugh 'qwikster' what a tired joke" and then i remember it's REAL LIFE

idg the big deal
i mean, pr disaster sure, but overall, netflix otm

god i love that the debate is "what a pr disaster" vs. "pr disaster LIKE A FOX!"

I had Netflix for a long time and I don't really get how people think there's variety in the selection of the streaming and the discs. A lot of the material is either those bargain bin documentaries, really old anime or cheesy movies. Even the TV selection sucks because of distribution fights. I also hate how I have to wait 3 weeks to see a new movie after it's on DVD and Blu so I just gave up my account. I'm trying a 3 month preview of Blockbuster and it's okay, about what I'd expect from renting at the actual store, a lot of the discs are unavailable.

there is a shitload of variety in the streaming and the discs

sometimes when I check out the new movies list i'm like "christ there is nothing but the worst movies ever on streaming" until I realize that I've got a queue 200+ deep and, since I've rated like 3000 movies on netflix, most of the good stuff is in "watch it again." It's not a good service if you want This Movie Now, but if you want A Movie Now, there's more worth watching than I'll ever have time for.

"I also hate how I have to wait 3 weeks to see a new movie after it's on DVD and Blu"

Yes this is truly awful awful... wait didn't you already wait a while? What's three more weeks?

I think the streaming selection is pretty great myself. I don't have any problem keeping my queue stuff to the gills with stuff to watch (lot of docs, true, but no shortage of good ones.)

yeah my reaction to the gap between retail release and Netflix availability is "uh if I was in a hurry to see this movie i would've gone to the theater 5 months ago"

Right. I don't even know when new movies are released on DVDs. The Netflix date might as well be the real release date cause that's all I know.

im telling you guys, buy buy buy, i wish i had money

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah if it werent for my total opposition to individuals owning individual stocks, still tempting

where's lorax he might actually take your advice

I really want to buy some stocks, but being a manchild, I literally have no idea how to do that.

there's a big trading floor at the new york stock exchange, you just gotta go there and make some crazy hand signals, you'll probably end up with some stock