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

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.

so: i'm still having this problem, but it's only when using chrome. i simply can't access my instant play queue at all without ending up on that weird error page. i called netflix and they didn't have any answers. i cleared all the netflix cookies, restarted the browser, restarted my computer... no luck. i mean, at least it still works using firefox, but it's a little annoying.

i've had periodic rebuffering problems w/ Netflix over the years. i figured that it had to do with my ISP, and not Netflix.

remember qwikster?

http://i.imgur.com/s8zGo.png

http://i.imgur.com/bdRBb.jpg

my man

Qwikster RIP.

Wow.

That lasted, what, three weeks?

Are they going back to one website for everything (DVD or streaming)? Same or different prices?

One website, but I think the price split/increase still holds.

"We're killing off one of the services, but still charging you for two!"

Stay classy Netflix.

what the hell is going on over there. at least sticking to your guns implies some foresight and direction.

amazon meetings must sound like a room full of excited chimpanzees these days

i mean if netflix has nothing over the horizon except for losing disney and sony and gaining dreamworks...

there's something to be said for backing out of stupid decisions before you make them intractable

not as good as not making them in the first place, but

i hope that's verbatim what reed hastings says in meetings with studios

separating their DVD dept isn't a bad idea...ONCE they beef up streaming.

The way these guys are so reactive to public pressure makes them look indecisive. I mean, obvs the public was 100% right in this case, but maybe some focus grouping next time, guys?

Their stock went up 10% today, so I guess it wasn't all bad.

The Market likes bumbling monkeys.

I mean, yeah, if a worthwhile competitor never steps up, Netflix will recover! And if there was no Facebook we'd all be on myspace right now.

ha, holy shit! these fucken guys!

so much max thought leading...down the drain ;_;

max is gonna make it through this, I think he's gonna be alright

I canceled my streaming plan today. Once I heard they were losing Criterion that was kinda game over.

Qwikster RIP

New Coke / new Gap logo cconspiracy theorists (me) are theorizing.

that dude isn't gonna get anything for his twitter account now