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

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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...

If the ratings are handled separately, it will be interesting to see the data in DVD v. streaming!

I am lovin the pirate option, and I bet there are more than a few disgruntled ex-NF subscribers who didn't bat an eye, cancelled their subs and are downloading like mad. I don't do it cuz it just takes too long. There are a bunch of companies stepping up and as someone said upthread, smelling the blood in the water. One of them is Dish, who bought Blockbuster and is now setting up their streaming division. With the BB inventory, uh that could leave a mark on NF and revive BB (who woulda thunk it?!?)BB still has the in the mail option too. I'd like to see if Dish offers a standalone streaming option via Wii or xbox or Roku like hulu does - if so it would be VERY attractive. Also today Amazon is really promoting it's effort to increase their streaming "plus" svc by working with studios and making deals for new releases, etc. That also could sting NF. I hate that I am so crazy mad about this issue, it's a business move, but it just feels so cold; but then I still like my Tivo with it's silly cute interface over the dull DTV DVR. It's the kitch that gets me I guess, and I have an irrational emotional attachment to all things TV and NF WAS the bomb until it dropped the 60% increase bomb.

@ Max: OTOH, if NF stock keeps falling in the market, I will buy in (two-faced bitch I am) b/c I think that ultimately they will come back with a vengeance, but I secretly hope they do a Blockbuster and tank.

schadenwoo

wiggy & lorax will eventually own 90% of netflix stock

According to several senior media executives, who wish to remain anonymous, Facebook has signed partnership deals with the likes of Hulu, in a bid to provide a content offering, in the form of a large media platform, directly to its users.

^ see, this is the type of shit I'm talking about, things could turn on a dime if hulu successfully piggybacks onto fb's user base. not that this will necessarily put netflix out of business but competition in the space is going to get rough real quick, netflix can afford to make 0 mistakes, they can't give ppl any excuses to migrate from their platform.

one win for netflix is that they are ubiquitous on hardware, but that could change quickly too.

i tried out hulu plus on my 360 and i hated everything about it so much i didnt even use my full free 7 days. if that shit becomes the winner in this i will join jordan on the board game train.

"netflix can afford to make 0 mistakes"

they can probably make at least 4 more "qwikster"-level mistakes and their competitors have to capitalize pretty flawlessly on each of them, otherwise the mistake doesn't count.

looking forward to quackster, new streaming duck service. pf changs better execute flawlessly.

4 more qwikster mistakes and they lose a turn, must return to pirate bay

hulus problem is that its the result of a partnership btw a bunch of studios--cbs has already pulled out figuring it can make more money on its own--maybe facebook can save it but its kind of inherently unstable

Is losing CBS worse than losing Starz (semi-serious question)?

yeah--they have shows that people watch. the value of starz was in their movie content, which was always not hugely better than netflix's basic library (imo).

i mean i love party down as much as the next guy but it wasnt exactly a huge hit

I hated the Starz movie content because it all looked really bad. It had some weird compression on it or something.

sorry i got my facts wrong--CBS was never a partner in hulu

eh if i were a steaming media company id rather have my shit built into like every new tv/dvd player/video game console than on facebook, like facebook want to become the internet an be everything to everybody but its not gonna happen

yeah, netflix has hardware ubiquity which right now is their ace in the hole, but one firmware update and I could conceivably have hulu on my bluray player

hulu will need to quadruple its library to match netflix's

hulu is also already in the xbox 360 (maybe the ps3? dont have one) and has been for a while. i get the feeling its been a fairly significant failure.

btw game consoles as streaming devices are the wave of the future until peeps start buying new televisions again

to quadruple its library hulu needs to prove it can bring eyeballs, and fb can bring eyeballs

I haven't used hulu in a while, so maybe it is awful but netflix isn't that great on my bluray player either - can't search, can't add to queue, no recommendations

skeptical of facebooks ability to being eyeballs to full length content, jus not the right vibe 4 them

get ready for news feed full of ppl liveblogging movies

biggest problem for netflix, hulu, whoever, is still this

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random sampling 3 out of 18 streaming and there's not a lot of morbz bait in there

all in good time

but I want the future of ~the internet~ now!

I haven't used hulu in a while, so maybe it is awful but netflix isn't that great on my bluray player either - can't search, can't add to queue, no recommendations

yeah see you get all of that with the console versions, i think its just a matter of time where thats the standard in bluray players and tvs as well

I have like 150 items in my instant queue.

yeah i just checked and i have 421 in my dvd queue and 371 in my instant so i would say both services are working out pretty well for me

22% of my dvd queue is also streaming fyi

math is fun

yeah I've got netflix on the wii but the image quality is a lot better from the bluray player

I've got 269 in my instant queue, but it's a lot of compulsive "hey something's actually streaming let me add it", also each eps of a tv show counts as a slot in yr instant queue, kinda inflates the numbers

most of the time movies I actually want to see are in the DVD queue (RIP)

sorry I forgot we aren't supposed to talk about ilxors netflixing habits

I'm sure it's been said upthread many times, but the main problem with the split is that the word netflix no longer stands for a vast and deep catalog - the possibilities were endless to the consumer, even if the consumer were to only watch 1% of those titles in their lifetime. It's really becoming like a premium cable channel, which has some good movies, some of the time. It's no longer something I would recommend to a general consumer - although at this point everyone has heard about it.

huh my tv shows only count as seasons in my queue, not individual episodes. which thank god because otherwise stuff like futurama would be eating up like a third of the alloted queue length

actually not even seasons, just as a single line for the entire show, now that i look at it again.

know what, you can have a max of 500 titles in the queue which I've bumped against a couple of times, I think the queue count is just the show but the eps count towards yr queue limit, yargh

you learn this by having kids who add every single tv show they can to the queue

that is really odd, because mine def doesnt work that way, i just looked and ive got 371 lines of stuff - like i think that the first 48 and futurama and larry sanders alone would put me over the 371

weird, it's happened a bunch of times where I get this message "you cannot have more than 500 titles in your queue" or some such shit and I have to delete x-men evolution or the suite life on deck or w/e nickelodeon disney junk is in there

maybe bad tv counts double or something

Ha ha.

I think that's because the 'saved' section where unavailable stuff goes counts against your limit too