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

netflix has a benefit in that delivering media is the sole focus of their biz (unlike amazon or the studios) but streaming services start looking the same after a while, I've started using crackle on the ipad, maybe the future is a plethora of streaming channels just like we have cable channels and the netflix's comprehensive library was just a beautiful shining moment that is passing

working on a streaming channel library aggregator it's like a TV guide for the cloud age brb

in the future instead of "what time is it on" we will ask "when does this streaming media's content license expire?"

the upcoming original kevin spacey content has the reek of yahoo! logic about it

eh people subscribe to hbo et al for one show all the time, p sound well tested logic imho

if they keep the price around pay cable and keep the rights to a large body of films, totally. but when you're losing pr and the owners of movies don't want to work with you, throwing your $$$ K-Pax might be a fools errand

that should be at K-Pax

eh i kinda doubt that either of those cons are long term trends, and if they are then nothing you do is gonna work anyway so might as well pack it up

really, everybody's saying the same thing. Netflix is pissing off customers but it all depends on if there's worthwhile competition in the future. only point debated is really people's faith in Netflix. Flipping off your customers while chasing Spacey just doesn't make me think they've got all the aces.

every company is gonna make some mistakes, feel like if you look at a slightly longer trendline theyre doing p well, aka this will all blow over

imho creating original content is a v wise move as you want something to differentiate yrself from the competition and reel in those fence sitters - of course you have to make an actually like good show which is obvs a huge leap for a distro/software company

e3 i feel you i guess as much as anything im having trouble seeing why people are so blindly enraged by this that theyre like booing the company on conan? maybe if i could "get inside the head" of the internet i would feel differently but right now its like, get over it

not to mention that i dont *want* a future w/ a bunch of different streaming channels--i mean obviously this *will* happen but i want like 2-3 big comprehensive libraries not 12 different small ones, especially not if those small ones are run by studios and cable channels.

so this is ideological for me--people ditching out on netflix (for what??) are just doing their part to ensure an *even shittier* content environment in the future. thats what i mean by lack of vision.

netflix's lack of anime subs is distressing

i'm curious how many people are ditching netflix as a streaming service due to this - I could see far bigger drops on the "qwikster" side of things, which does seem to plausibly be their goal

like, I dig the comedy of a pr flub like this, and if qwikster blows I may well take the trek to my local video store for new movies (hooray 4 brooklyn where that's still a thing), but for my money netflix is still a great source of tv shows and obscure richard widmark movies

the only really irritating thing about this is not crosspollinating the streaming from my dvd queue. also agree w/max on hating the idea of bunches of streaming channels, fuck that noise.

have they said anything more about this supposed gamefly component btw?

im sure im just reiterating what other people have said, but not jumping into the skipping 1472 messages gulf so youll just have to bear with me

video store is not an option for a lot of people, and the selection on netflix is hardly catholic. i mean i guess i agree w/ everything except the 'they have everything but obscure morbius shit' line w/r/t their streaming section b/c at this point they don't, honestly, have a lot of top shelf shit. i mean i'm a guy who really likes to watch columbo, so i'm happy, but...

i understand how a variety of streaming channels would annoy but i dunno if i'm "ideologically" opposed to any absence of a monopoly

and yeah, if I was back in central PA I'd be PISSED OFF about this shit

feel like what youll see is many places where you can view everything ever made forced to differentiate themselves via product and original programing

i like the idea of a bunch of similar services with similarly-sized services competing on price and speed and GUI (and maybe library content at the margins)--but im deeply afraid of six or seven $10/month subscription services run by (& being the exclusive source of content from) studios and content creators which is what sony & nbcu and everyone else wants

yeah exactly

this is especially scary in the case of a conglomerate like NBC/comcast which would control not only the content and distribution but the infrastructure bringing you the content--meaning no one would fight them if they wanted to throttle bandwidth or charge you extra for streaming video over yr dsl line

like i said above if i trusted that the FCC/congress was looking out for my best interests, keeping the internet open & free & fast, being tough on mergers and so forth, i would feel less invested in this.

i'd see this as a reason to be annoyed with netflix right now

i mean if anyone should be "visionary" about this it should be the CEO of netflix not the folks who keep Brad Pitt and Leo movies in the netflix 100

maybe i'll just get really into board games

lol

i like the idea of a bunch of similar services with similarly-sized services competing on price and speed and GUI (and maybe library content at the margins)--but im deeply afraid of six or seven $10/month subscription services run by (& being the exclusive source of content from) studios and content creators which is what sony & nbcu and everyone else wants

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:20 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feel like the naturally arising antidote to this is piracy

If they really want to get rid of their DVD business, giving it a shitty name isn't a bad tactic.

like any service has to be better than piracy, dont think 5+ services will do the trick

maybe board games about pirates

board like a pirate day

^ on the doubloons

who will be the google+ of streaming movies!!!

its me!!!

http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/gplus11-hp.gif

so jho you wanna get in on the groundfloor of this streaming content metalibrary aggregator to help manage the distributed future w/ me? I need an aggressively savvy internet pirate/hobo to help steer this ship

http://i.imgur.com/aqiSu.gif
its me!!!

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:24 PM (11 minutes ago)

http://i.imgur.com/7x0ET.jpg

eye eye capn

http://i.imgur.com/aqiSu.gif
its me!!!
http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/gplus11-hp.gif

btw there is really a disappointing dearth of hobo picture on the internet

lol @ the internet

SFW hobo pictures, that is

have you tried thehobobay.org

What Mr. Hastings doesn't seem to get is that just because streaming and DVD rentals are operated completely differently behind the scenes, that to customers they are very similar. For customers, "Netflix" meant watching a movie, by whatever means. I don't care about how different streaming vs. mailing a DVD vs. renting a DVD at a kiosk is for you guys. It's all about the customers and their perception. Now to read your movie reviews, I'll have to go to two different websites - which makes sense, because obviously how good a movie is depends on whether it was streamed or watched on DVD. Yeah, that makes alot of sense....

oh huh i had not thought about the review aspect

i too wanna know about the vidyagame component of this; gamefly sucks and i'd love to try something different

"oh huh i had not thought about the review aspect"

Yeah that's pretty lame. Although it might be shared by both sites...