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

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

no one listens to me, not even reed hastings

Looking forward to seeing Qwikster t-shirts in the Urban Outfitters rack in 2028.

or in 2011

Touche.

http://eshop.t-online.de/WebRoot/Store3/Shops/Shop36922/483D/7978/F2D7/8250/E879/AC14/5009/640F/154GROSS.jpg

So what exactly is the deal with Netflix and Criterion? I thought Netflix already lost Criterion, but there is plenty of Criterion on Netflix, though of course maybe not all.

There's still some left, but all the content expires at the end of this year.

Is it still on Hulu?

yeah, hulu made a deal for basically ALL of criterion's stuff and that might win me over to pick up the service really.

Last month I tried to find out how long Hulu/Criterion's deal was for, but couldn't find that bit of data anywhere.

Yeah, for once it's actually hard to find information on the internet. I do know that the cost of Hulu Plus for a year is more or less the cost of three or four Criterions, so that's money well spent, I suppose.

until apple lets hulu+ onto the appleTV I prob won't do it but the criterion stuff is a pretty powerful draw.

i knew qwikster was just a bad dream i'd eventually awaken from! now can someone start a petition to get @Qwikster to go back to his pot-smoking elmo picture

BTW, watched bit of "Yes 90125" live, directed by ... Steven Soderbergh!

The concert is reversed chronologically, the film stock keeps changing, and everything's shot through a colored filter.

Companies often forget to think like their customers. For me, I'm watching a movie, and I don't care if it's a DVD or on-demand from the cable company or streamed over the 'net. I don't want to have to mentally segregate the different ways I can watch a movie.

....kind of like how the same stores that will develop your 35mm film will also make prints from your SD card. Digital and film-based photography are completely different processes, but I don't have to take my exposed film to one place and my memory card to another.

They know no one will like it, they just want to be "ahead of the curve" again - and the curve dictates that DVD rentals are only going to drop over the years. They could have gotten away with it if you were a fool to not just stream, but the library simply isn't big enough yet.

The irony of this is that if Netflix hadn't killed the video store, they could totally focus on streaming and just tell disgruntled completist cineastes to get their kicks at Video Center IV.

Blockbuster killed the video store by taking over everything and sucking. Netflix killed Blockbuster.

Yeah the blood of the local and niche video stores outside of large cities (and a few, select college towns) is on Blockbusters' hands, not those of Netflix.

Seeing as how I only lived in a few, select college towns and large cities, you may have a point.

But in those burgs, Netflix definitely delivered the death blow.

Aren't you both in Chicago? Did you not see a bunch of stores close well after blockbuster's rise?

There are still mom and pop and specialty stores all over, but Blockbuster's ascent ruined it on a national level. The tipping point.

if you pretend blockbuster is/was a video store (not hard), my point remains the same. DVD delivery is Netflix's burden to carry unless they can actually provide the movie library of our dreams through streaming.

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/netflix-signs-1b-deal-with-cw-to-stream-gossip-girl-and-other-hits.php

hahahahaaa

never change reed hastings, never change

As the competition in the online video market heats up, Netflix has been attempting to regain the luster it lost with investors and customers due to a series of dunderheaded moves, including hiking prices of 60 percent in the summer and CEO Reed Hasting’s bizarre statement in September that Netflix would split its DVD and Blu-Ray disc-by-mail rental service into a separate brand called Qwikster, a plan it hastily retracted on Monday due to widespread customer backlash (and perhaps, slightly, to the fact that the company had failed to secure the “@Qwikster” Twitter account from a trash-talking pothead.)

like, i doubt that "some pothead already had the @qwikster account" is what torpedoed the thing, they're a big company and it's only twitter etc, but nevertheless it makes me SO HAPPY whenever writers bring it up in articles

also can't wait to finally watch all 700 episodes of one tree hill

stock down to 86. Was at 324 before they raised prices.

lost 800,000 subscribers last quarter.

yeah that's unbelievable

i lol'd