NetFlix Streaming Service Announces "We'll Offer No More New Films"

[Orrex]

And millions of NetFlix subscribers simultaneously declare that they'd thought that this was the existing policy.

[siligut]

1. Thinking about canceling NetFlix, quit the DVDs last year.

Did stream The Warrior's Way a few days ago, it was pretty good. We rewatched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, after seeing the American version in the theater. Also, NetFlix has some good historical documentaries and science programs on streaming, but I can get that off of Xfinity. Plus I can buy streaming from Amazon and they have a much larger selection.

Also our independent video store has new releases for under $2 on Tuesdays and we like them and like to give them business.

[Chan790]

2. For roughly the same cost...

you can get Hulu plus which now includes the entire Criterion collection, like 500 of the best films ever made.

[siligut]

3. Hulu Plus is something to consider

I am looking at options, NetFlix seems to have gone cheap on us. Since they lost Starz play the selection doesn't even seem worth the $8 or so I am paying now.

[Son of Gob]

4. Starz content is still on Netflix until the end of February.

So the play selection will get even worse soon.

[JSnuffy]

5. link?

Normally they send out a "we are making changes/this is the best idea ever" e-mail

[Son of Gob]

7. It's has to do with the DVD service not the streaming.

Only Warner Bros. DVD's at that.

http://www.investorplace.com/2012/01/netflix-nflx-delayed-warner-bros-dvd-release/

[Son of Gob]

6. The latest NetFlix news has absolutley nothing to do with the Streaming Service.

It effects only Warner Bros. DVD's. Instead of watching A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 28 days after it's DVD release, you'll have to wait 56 days.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. I have 201 titles in my streaming queue

If you venture beyond the blockbusters, especially into foreign films, British, Australian, and Canadian TV, and documentaries, there's really quite a lot. This evening I started to watch Nightwatch, supposedly the highest-grossing Russian film of all time, and it turned out to be just another vampire movie (I so do not get the fascination with vampires), so I stopped watching it and found something completely different, namely Shaun the Sheep, one of those kids' shows that grown-ups find hysterically funny.

I also have Hulu Plus for the Criterion Collection.

Amazon, with its pay-per-view and ho-hum selection on Amazon Prime is no bargain. I'm underwhelmed.

With so much to watch on streaming, I've quit the DVDs, effective February 5 (when my next payment is due).

[Orrex]

9. Yeah, everybody says that

I'll grant that NetFlix has a pretty good offering of children's movies, but my ongoing complaint is that NetFlix doesn't posture itself as an easy-access venue for obscure foreign films and Australian tv, at least not principally. They make it sound as though you can plug in and watch whatever you want to watch, which is far from the case. Hell, it would be nice if one in ten blockbusters came through on the streaming service.

Obviously the issue is licensing, as restricted by the films' owners, but NetFlix should be honest about it and change their slogan to something like "A few films that people have heard of, and all the other stuff."

[dawg]

10. I love the Netflix streaming service.

I pay $8 a month for Netflix and probably $45 a month for expanded basic cable.

Netflix is all that I watch.

If Netflix streaming had lots of new releases and original content, I would gladly scale back the cable and pay $25 a month for Netflix. The convenience of watching something when and where I want is worth that much to me. I'm not sure I could even go back to watching things on the networks' schedule.

And no, I would not be willing to search out content on ten or fifteen separate websites owned by the content creators and put up with the barrage of advertisements they would spew at me.

Both Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus have only a small fraction of the content that is available on Netflix.

The challenge for the company is to find a way to increase it's price without alienating it's customers. It will take more than $8 a month to secure rights to lots of new releases. Anyone who expects otherwise is not being realistic and is wanting to get something for nothing.

Also, Netflix is going to have to deal with the content providers from a position of strength. Those SOPA loving bastards are trying to kill Netflix with huge hikes in content prices. Netflix must not give in, because the money isn't there to pay the content companies the high ransoms they are demanding. Content companies need to realize that they can either license their content to Netflix and the other streaming services for reasonable rates, or else people will just pirate their property and they'll get nothing.