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

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (2048 of them)

that was a poorly set up, throwaway reference to our past disagreements.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The School of Rock
21 Grams
My So-Called Life: Disc 5
House of Sand and Fog
Shattered Glass
Wonderland
Something's Gotta Give
The Pink Panther
Alien:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
George Washington
Charlotte Sometimes
Sweet Sixteen
Blue Car
Far from Heaven
Tully
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Whale Rider
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Dirty Pretty Things
Husbands and Wives
Deconstructing Harry
Dummy
The French Connection
Raising Victor Vargas
The Thin Red Line
Runaway Jury
Under the Tuscan Sun
Sylvia
Schindler's List

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I just discovered nicheflix, so I can't, as much as I'd like to be showered with kisses. I haven't signed up yet--I'm planning to split an account with some neighborhood pals, and we need to straighten out the logistics. But it looks pretty awesome, eh?

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one big drawback to netflix is the lack of non-region 1 titles. If they carried other region DVDs I'd find it more useful now since there are a lot of things I'd like to see that haven't come out in the US yet, aren't available anymore in the US, or are different transfers or something. However, I guess there are legal issues with that having to do with the studios, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I am going to quit Netflix soon. I'd say that if you use it every other six months then it is totally reasonable. Unless of course you're sharing it with roommates ... etc.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My queue's maxed out with twenty or so things bookmarked. My next ten items, several of which aren't yet released or have been longwaited for a while:

Alias Season 1 Disc 5
Versus
Texas Chainsaw remake
Lost in Translation
Babylon 5 Season 3 Disc 3, 4, 5
The Last Unicorn
The Singing Detective remake
Belly

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm signing up for that Nicheflix trial account right now. That looks pretty swell even though I don't have a multi-region DVD player.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Little known factoid about Netflix: if you quit or threaten to quit, they'll offer you 2 DVDs at any one time for $13.95 a month. That's what my wife and I have used for a year or so now, and we find it puts less pressure on us to always constantly be watching DVDs. We had unsubscribed from the service for a while when we were finding ourselves not watching more than 1 or 2 a month.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

so far I've just left my trial membership. As far as I can tell, fucking awesome. Renting movies via mail = badass, renting DVDs via mail = awesome, renting with no late fees and a flat rate per month = I cancelled my cable. Word.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I just signed up. With any luck I will never have to deal with the surly clerks at Kim's again.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

So far, two of the three movies in my initial Nicheflix shipment arrived two days after being mailed -- they were mailed the day after I joined, though, not the day I joined. Not a big thing, but Netflix had my initial movies shipped within an hour.

Two days for 2 out of 3 (and I assume the 3rd probably went out later in the day and will be here tomorrow or that it's a postal twitch) is pretty damn good for what I assume is a recently begun company (at least more recently than Netflix); I don't know if it's that I'm near their major distribution center, or if they have multiple ones a la Netflix.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got my first 3 movies in the mail today--and they come in such tiny sliver packages--slim enough to fit into NYC apartment mailboxes. Sex and the City + Curb Your Enthusiasm = Yay TV.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

any uk types use webflix.co.uk?

seriously tempted by it as the rip off dvd rental place near me is 3 pounds a night!

― marcg (marcg), Saturday, 27 March 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

There's some Canadian versions, yay:

http://www.moviesforme.ca/?REFERER=affiliate238
http://www.nrexpress.ca
www.dvdflix.ca

I'm assuming the selections aren't going to be as good, though

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 27 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicheflix update:

Two more movies arrived today, again with only a two-day delay. Their main base of operations is in Indiana, as it turns out, so that's helpful.

Orgazmo also arrived today, after, what, nine days -- it was shipped with the initial movies, and judging from the packaging it was mishandled somehow; it's re-stamped "correction," with a March 29th postmark on top of the March 23rd one.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Queued up for my lonely weekend of temporary bachelordom:

Blade
Decasia
Beyond The Mat

And I'll try and make it to see Hellboy and The Return at the theater.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicheflix update again: unlike Netflix, they process and ship on Saturdays; but they have twice (out of six discs) lost a disc while mailing it to me, apparently because of mislabeling, which results in it being returned to them and then re-shipped (and in the meantime, I'm somewhat "paying" for the movie, by it taking up a slot in my queue).

But they're so fast otherwise that it seems worth it until I run out of region 1 movies I want to watch.

One of the unexpectedly nice things about them is that they have a lot of the Disney discs of shorts that Netflix doesn't or that are out of print -- the Complete Goofy, Mickey Mouse in Black and White, etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish they'd spell it "the compleat goofy"!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I tried five rental thingies -- Netflix, Nicheflix, Greencine, Yudoo, and Wal-Mart -- and compared them over the course of a month. It's inexact (and location has a different effect on each service), but since Netflix is raising their prices in a couple weeks, I thought it might be useful to see how they all measure up.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the generally accepted protocol for going into the family rental queue and removing your spouse's selections? I simply cannot accept the presence of Girl, Interrupted and Whale Rider in our list.

― tobo (tobo), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

divorce.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I rule over our list. She's going to hate me when we finally get Bring It On Again in the mail.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh, I want to see that one! Bree Turner from Deuce Bigelow (the aquarium girl) is in it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll let you know how it stands up.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I just upped my membership to 5 movies at a time, but there is no end in sight for my queue. I wonder how long it will take me to watch all the movies I want to see.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

How much did that cost you, mary?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Blockbuster is doing a no late fees program now.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't remember, $30something?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i miss netflix

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Once I am done with the Whats Happening discs, I am kicking Netflix to THA CURB.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This is why we never see Mary.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary, you need to queue Cruel Intentions 3 - one of the stars is Jack from Dawson's Creek.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I signed up and have 80 films in my queue (including everything by Bergman). Now what??

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Just wait. You are about to be hit by a cinematic tsunami.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet! I wish I had more free time.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ME THREEES ;(

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i had more cream

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Question for a kindly Netflix user - do they have any of the "Treasures from American Film Archives" discs?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

NFLX was $35 not even 4 months ago... today <$10. analysts are saying it won't see half that for a long time with dwindling profits and increased competition.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

analysts!

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

In today's email:

Since our price increase in June, some of our members have expressed concerns about the new pricing. We've listened to this feedback and are pleased to inform you that we're lowering the price of your Netflix 3-at-a-time program from $21.99 per month to 17.99 per month.

Sounds like trouble a-brewin'.

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

And Blockbuster is lowering to $17.49/mo. in response...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon's service will be launching in a week or two.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

What of Nicheflix or Greencine? What of the little guy?

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon is going to have one too, oh my...

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying into the video-on-demand thing was a mistake I'm afraid.
Amazon's service will be something to see I'm sure.
Poor Netflix. I like them. They'll be around for a while longer I hope.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 25 October 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

11/30/04 12/10/04 Days of Being Wild (1991)
11/30/04 12/07/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 4: Vol. 2 (1994)
11/30/04 12/07/04 The Work of Director Spike Jonze (2003)
11/24/04 11/30/04 Ordinary People (1980)
11/23/04 11/30/04 Persona (1967)
11/22/04 11/30/04 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
11/18/04 11/24/04 California Split (1974)
11/16/04 11/23/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 4: Vol. 1 (1994)
11/16/04 11/22/04 The Birds (1963)
11/12/04 11/18/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 6 (1994)
11/11/04 11/16/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 5 (1994)
11/02/04 11/16/04 Shanghai Triad (1995)
11/09/04 11/12/04 Suture (1993)
11/05/04 11/11/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 4 (1994)
10/26/04 11/09/04 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
11/01/04 11/05/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 4 (1994)
10/20/04 11/02/04 The Man in the White Suit (1951)
10/26/04 11/01/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 3 (1994)
10/19/04 10/26/04 L.I.E. (2001)
10/19/04 10/26/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 2 (1994)
10/13/04 10/20/04 Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
08/03/04 10/19/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 1 (1994)
10/14/04 10/19/04 Hell House (2001)
10/12/04 10/14/04 Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
10/07/04 10/13/04 Liberty Heights (1999)
10/07/04 10/12/04 Darkman (1990)
09/17/04 10/07/04 What Time is It There? (2001)
08/02/04 10/07/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 4 (1994)
08/05/04 09/17/04 Runaway Jury (2003)
07/27/04 08/05/04 Sling Blade (1996)
07/27/04 08/03/04 Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
07/26/04 08/02/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 3 (1993)
07/23/04 07/27/04 Law & Order: Season 1: Disc 1: Episodes 1-2 (1990)
06/10/04 07/27/04 Beau Travail (1999)
07/13/04 07/26/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 2 (1993)
07/20/04 07/23/04 Love Actually (2003)
06/22/04 07/20/04 Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The First Year: Disc 1 (2001)
06/16/04 07/13/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 1 (1993)
06/10/04 06/22/04 Blade 2 (2002)
06/10/04 06/16/04 Comedian (2002)
06/04/04 06/10/04 Oz: Season 1: Disc 3 (1997)
05/25/04 06/10/04 Oz: Season 1: Disc 1 (1997)
05/26/04 06/10/04 Oz: Season 1: Disc 2 (1997)
05/24/04 06/04/04 Pickup on South Street (1953)
05/03/04 05/26/04 The Lost Weekend (1945)
05/04/04 05/25/04 In This World (2003)
05/18/04 05/24/04 Cinemania (2002)
05/11/04 05/18/04 The Last Seduction (1994)
04/16/04 05/11/04 The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
04/15/04 05/04/04 The Ring (2002)
04/26/04 05/03/04 The School of Rock (2003)
04/15/04 04/26/04 Experiment in Terror (1962)
04/05/04 04/16/04 Blade (1998)
04/05/04 04/15/04 Decasia: The State of Decay (2004)
04/06/04 04/15/04 Beyond the Mat (2000)
03/29/04 04/06/04 Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
04/01/04 04/05/04 Purple Rain (1984)
03/23/04 04/05/04 Dummy (2003)
03/17/04 04/01/04 My Life Without Me (2003)
03/23/04 03/29/04 Moonlight Mile (2002)
03/16/04 03/23/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 4: Episode 13 & Bonus Features (2003)
03/16/04 03/23/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 3: Episodes 9-12 (2003)
03/01/04 03/17/04 Man on the Train (2002)
03/09/04 03/16/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 1: Episodes 1-4 (2003)
03/11/04 03/16/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 2: Episodes 5-8 (2003)
03/01/04 03/11/04 Thirteen (2003)
03/01/04 03/09/04 S.W.A.T. (2003)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You only rent Chiklis? I thought you embraced him to your bosom and never let him go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 1948 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Just last week I got two DVDs from Netflix because no county library branch or my uni library carried them. This sucks.

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:07 (three years ago)

🏴‍☠️

― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:22 (three years ago)

I am really sorry to hear the announcement of the discontinuation of Netflix's DVD rental service. In the 9 years since I started subscribing I've rented and watched close to 2400 movies. Not only has it been great for accessing classic films, but the whole concept of the queue, which allows you to program a rotating list of multiple directors' films to watch in chronological order, has been really great. It has been an education

I like looking at the history of all of the films I have rented over the years, it's my version of the thread here where everyone posts the films they have recently seen to make a record. I still have close to 500 films in my queue, so I know I have to trim it down to some I really want to watch and some I know I'll never otherwise see after Sep 29th

― Dan S, Friday, 21 April 2023 23:15 (three years ago)

Netflix DVD has been great for recording one's entire film viewing history, the whole thing is there. Letterboxd seems paltry in comparison. I guess I will have to privately note my own viewing experiences from now on. The Last (x) movies you saw (II) thread - what is that about? - are you all intending that as a place for you to look back on and remember and document your experiences, or is it just a vehicle for conversation? I have never really understood it

― Dan S, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:12 (three years ago)

I've kept a list since 1992, which I migrated to Letterboxd 10 years ago. Sometimes I'd forget to log something, though, and Netflix rental history was a useful backup.

― jaymc, Friday, 28 April 2023 01:11 (three years ago)

three months pass...

end of an era

Our last-ever day of shipping out the red envelopes is getting close. You have 40 more days to enjoy your DVD Netflix membership before we send out our final shipments on September 29th. Here are a few ways you can make the most of this final season:
Move must-watch titles to the top of your queue, to increase your chances of receiving them. We’ve also added a handy "move streamable titles to the bottom" option to help you make sure each red envelope counts! (Note that if your queue has no streamable titles, this option won’t be shown.)
Your data will be available until October 27th, so be sure to download a keepsake PDF of your queue, rental history, ratings, and reviews here. Plus, due to popular request, we’ve added the option to download in CSV format!
The last day to change your plan is August 28th. If you’d like to get more discs, browse our plans here.
As a reminder, September 29th is definitely our last day of shipping. Naturally, we hope everyone successfully receives their last shipments – however, in the event that a disc gets damaged or lost in the mail, we will unfortunately not be able to ship you a replacement after September 29th.
We truly appreciate you being part of our final season. Thank you for welcoming our iconic red envelopes into your homes for 25 years. Any further questions? See our FAQ.
—The Netflix DVD team

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 20 August 2023 00:44 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/netflix-dvds-mail-ending/675204/

The real reason I stuck it out was the queue. Netflix allows DVD subscribers to save titles to a list of films, which are then sent in the order in which you added them. I’ve grown very attached to this system, and I’m not looking forward to its disappearance. At one point, I had more than 200 movies in my queue—years’ worth of viewing, especially after I switched from three discs at a time to one. Even as I started adding more streaming to my movie diet, I kept one strict rule: If there was a new DVD waiting for me from Netflix, I had to watch that first. Long day at work and not really in an Ingmar Bergman mood? Too bad, buddy. You-from-eight-months-ago thought you should watch The Silence, so that’s what you’re watching.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:07 (two years ago)

Got billed yesterday. The one nice part about losing the disc service is now I'm paying them like 55% less a month until I saw 'fuck it' and cancel.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 September 2023 13:55 (two years ago)

The post office lost one of the discs I sent back on Tuesday, and Netflix has already disabled the customer service arm of DVD.com, so I'm being shorted a disc in my final delivery. All in all, a perfect way to close this thing out.

Great work everyone!

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 September 2023 17:21 (two years ago)

I don't know why they don't just let everyone keep their final selections, but I guess they don't technically own the discs? Like they're just licensing them from the distributors/studios or something.. so they'll all end up in a landfill I imagine

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 September 2023 18:24 (two years ago)

They are letting people keep their absolute final selections, I'm just getting jipped out of one because of the post office.

If you signed up for it, you could also get ten random discs to keep on top of that.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:31 (two years ago)

I don't think the word gets better to use if you spell it differently btw

― vashti funyuns (sic), Friday, 29 September 2023 19:53 (two years ago)

We lost disc service for this?

https://netflixtoken.io/

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 October 2023 16:40 (two years ago)

Is this 2022?

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 13 October 2023 16:44 (two years ago)

one year passes...

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM

Adjusted for splits, from about $12.02/share then to $1,000/share this morning.

― braunschweiger winter (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 January 2025 14:33 (one year ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.