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You can find 5?

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Kal Rubinson

In Reply to: RE: Maybe Blockbuster online is NOT SO MUCH BETTER posted by jsm on July 27, 2011 at 12:58:09

I cannot ever find that many of interest and, frankly, fewer on Netflix than on BB. Hence, streaming and pay-per-stream makes sense to me.

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RE: You can find 5? - jsm 15:31:34 08/01/11 (0)
Five was my upper limit. Of the five, maybe one are two are movies I really like. I do try, though, based on reviews in the NY Times and other places, but I guess my tastes differ from most reviewers. One great thing I've discovered in the streaming world is many old fine movies that I somehow managed to miss. I just watched "That Obscure Object of My Desire" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was so simple to download it.

Joe
Movies to stream - Condorsat 08:26:27 07/28/11 (0)
That's what I am finding too. I only downloaded one movie in the last 6 months from Netflix. Most movies I like to watch (foreign, Criterion, Classic Cinema, Film Nori ... etc are only available in the hard media format. I'm dropping the stream option from Netflix ... trying Blockbuster hard media for 30 days free. If I like it ... I'll just go with Blockbuster and drop Netflix all together.
What really bugs me about Netflix is that they are wanting to get out of the DVD/Blue Ray by mail business. Fair enough ... but their online streaming (from my perspective) is not nearly robust enough yet. I had 66 movies in my queue and only 6 were available for download. I am willing to go to all streaming but their video selection has be better than that. If and when they get a better selection ... how much will that cost? Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities ... predicts Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion!!! in 2012. Apparently the major studios are no longer seeing Netflix as a niche player. How many further prices increases will it take to pay for their increasing content costs?

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