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jlb1705;2010698; said:
Netflix has apparently changed their minds about spinning off their physical media business. They clearly have no idea what they're doing at this point. They have another earnings call later this month - should be interesting to see how many more subscriptions they've hemorrhaged.
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They are in desperation mode, but I think spinning off their physical business was a non-starter anyway.
 
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New Release Delays Means Even DVD Subscription Services Are Getting Worse

Netflix had a rough 2011. Between its ill-conceived price hike and its even more ill-conceived DVD spin-off company, Qwikster, the movie rental company couldn't win. And now external factors (read: the studios) are making things even worse?not only for them, but also Blockbuster and Redbox?by delaying new releases.
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According to AllThingsD, Warner Bros. is providing the biggest blow to all three services by now making them wait 56 days before offering new releases to customers. The reason? Lethargic DVD sales. Unable or unwilling to embrace the extremely efficient internet-based subscription system (not to mention streaming), Warner Bros/would rather force everyone back to 1999 when we either bought all our movies, or had to haul ourselves into a rental store to get our hands on new titles.
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On top of that, Cnet says that HBO has decided to stop directly selling its titles to Netflix for rental. Aside from driving up operating costs, this will have little to no effect on Netflix customers because it just plans to legally buy those titles from third parties. It's a hostile, dickish move from HBO which serves no other purpose than to declare the fact that they're threatened by the future.
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That won't drive people to keep pirating or anything :roll2:

Good thing they continue to waste the major revenue potential of phone and streaming tv rentals so the tiny portion of premium tv subscribers can have it all.
 
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jlb1705;2082665; said:
Might as well make it 112 days for all I care. Whenever it comes out on Netflix is when I'll watch it.
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Yep, that is the way I feel. I don't need to see a movie as soon as it is released like some.

I have a co-worker that still buys new release DVDs (Not even Blu-Ray, DVD, and she bought a Blu-Ray player when they first came out. :facepalm: ) every Tuesday and spends $100 a week on titles she never even watches. That is like flushing your money down the toilet IMO.

I just cancelled my HBO and Starz on Xfinity because since I have been on Netfix, I have watched a total of 0 movies on those premium channels and was wasting money having them.
 
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buxfan4life;2082977; said:
Yep, that is the way I feel. I don't need to see a movie as soon as it is released like some.

I have a co-worker that still buys new release DVDs (Not even Blu-Ray, DVD, and she bought a Blu-Ray player when they first came out. :facepalm: ) every Tuesday and spends $100 a week on titles she never even watches. That is like flushing your money down the toilet IMO.

I just cancelled my HBO and Starz on Xfinity because since I have been on Netfix, I have watched a total of 0 movies on those premium channels and was wasting money having them.
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Yeah, that's pretty foolish. I'm with you though, I'm not one who HAS to see movies right away. There's a couple titles that I like to see in theaters (Drive and J. Edgar come to mind), but I'm content on waiting until Netflix has it.
 
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EDSBS :lol:

If you have ever complained about Netflix, Amazon Video, or any other streaming video service, you should be deported to the year 1998, and forced to find cheap entertainment on a Friday night in suburbia. That meant going to Blockbuster Video, and that meant entering a cheap-carpet scented level of hell itself.

Blockbuster Video was owned by Wayne Huizenga, capitalism's greatest fecal alchemist, a Midas who turned a waste management empire into a video empire, and then turned that hunk of crap into the Florida Marlins. Blockbuster's business plan was a simple one:

Open up mazes filled with VHS tapes.
Ensure that 80% of those videos were movies no one would ever want to watch, not even in the last waterproof cabin of a sunken cruise liner submerged 300 feet beneath the surface of the ocean.
Charge three dollars for initial rental
Charge a reasonable late fee of $59.00 a day
Imprison the American populace
Sell the entire prison-state to China
Force the entire nation to watch the Florida Marlins win a World Series
KILL BIG LASERDISC (R.I.P. Laserdisc)

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such a great CFB blog .
 
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/snip

There is literally nothing you should miss about Blockbuster Video. Its employees were wage slaves chained to white particle board fortresses at the front of the store, wearing the same blue polo with the BLOCKBUSTER logo emblazoned on the front that they wore yesterday, and the day before, and let's not talk about how long it's been since this Blockbuster polo had been washed, kid. You wanted to rent the lone copy of Cool Hand Luke in the store for the third week in a row, and the Blockbuster zombie wanted to get to six o'clock, their arthritic I-Mark in the parking lot, and the bag of shake weed they're going to have to settle for until the band takes off or the military becomes the only option to a better life. Besides, the shirt under it is clean, and that's what counts.

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:rofl:
 
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Thinking a out ordering Netflix instead if doing the redbox thing. Will stream only via Xbox, iPad, iPhone, laptop

How soon are movies available on Netflix to watch after they come out on DVD/out of theater/etc?

How recent are the shows available? For example is it current seasons, or past seasons only?

Thanks!
 
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Mac;2335170; said:
Thinking a out ordering Netflix instead if doing the redbox thing. Will stream only via Xbox, iPad, iPhone, laptop

How soon are movies available on Netflix to watch after they come out on DVD/out of theater/etc?

How recent are the shows available? For example is it current seasons, or past seasons only?

Thanks!
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Completely depends on the movie. Some never end up streaming, some come out as soon as they're released on DVD. As for tv shows, if they're on netflix, which most of them are, they'll only have previous seasons. If they've been released on DVD they'll be there, if not, you'll have to wait. For example, Captain America is on streaming, Iron Man 2 is not. The entire Star Trek catalogue is streaming, Game of Thrones is not. It really depends on the media.
 
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