Video Asylum

Posted by Condorsat (A) on July 28, 2011 at 08:26:27

In Reply to: RE: You can find 5? posted by Kal Rubinson on July 27, 2011 at 13:54:08

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?

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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Edits: 08/01/11