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

"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

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/netflix_queue.jpg

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

^this. stuff gets removed from the service but if you "save" it, it still counts against your 500

i've been at 500 from jump
the hulu killer app for me is the complete criterion collection aka "film school in a box"

@qwikster took down his pothead elmo picture and is spelling more things correctly, what a sellout

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/netflix-secures-streaming-deal-with-dreamworks.html

Next February, Netflix is expected to lose the right to stream films from Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment, as a result of a failed renegotiation with the premium cable channel Starz...

Netflix will begin streaming DreamWorks films starting in 2013. The studio plans three releases that year: “The Croods,” a prehistoric comedy; “Turbo,” about a garden snail; and “Peabody & Sherman,” an adaptation of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” characters. Titles from the DreamWorks library, including “Kung Fu Panda” and “Antz,” will become available over time, the companies said.

"film school in a box"

That's a pretty big goddamn box

Forks you could also just get Mubi

hadn't heard of mubi until now
don't think there's an easy way to port it to a tv in the us....?

afaict that nyt article contains no instances of the word "qwikster".

also my tooch wanted to make qwikster "swimwear".

read tooch as cooch, makes that sentence much more pertinent to my interests

Oh, Blockbusterpaws

http://www.sidequesting.com/2011/09/blockbuster-twitter-feed-caught-attempting-to-bribe-writers/

i love that url one (1) ton

"we're currently experiencing a technical issue - While we get things back to normal, some features aren't available - but you can play select titles on this page."

except none of them are working, either.

uhh apparently it was something wrong with my bookmark link??

ok so my netflix bookmark is for my instant queue - it seems i can access everything on netflix EXCEPT my instant play queue, which comes up with the above text about tech difficulties and a list of movies that i can watch, but none of them work. however, my husband is having no such problems with it on his computer?! so confused

I couldn't get the website to work or the streaming to work on my PS3. They're really having a great month!

Did I mention this before? Until about a month ago, streaming had never once rebuffered, but it's been doing it frequently since then. It occurred around the time of Qwikster announcement, but I am not suggesting a causal relationship.