And before anyone talks about Netflix’ “competition”, I say “What competition?” In order for a service to be a legitimate competitor to Netflix, they need to be available everywhere Netflix is — PCs, Macs, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, streaming boxes, Blu-Ray players, and connected TVs. The way I see it, the list of “legitimate competitors” has one entry on it: Hulu Plus. And I think Netflix stands up pretty well against them.

So no — Netflix ain’t goin’ nowhere, folks.

Also, +1000 to what “Joe” said just above. Netflix is probably never going to be for “hot new releases”. I would expect in the future that the pecking order for new movies would go like this:

1. Sales (discs and download)
2. Rental and on-demand services
3. Premium cable channels
4. Netflix and competitors

And I’m fine with that. I’ll rent the “hot stuff”, and use Netflix when I just want to “watch a movie”, which is more often.

——RM

Mind you, what I’m doing is getting caught up on old TV series and anime. I don’t watch that many movies.

——RM

——RM

Between Netlix streaming and Netflix 3-disc out service, I’m pretty satisfied. And, if I want to broaden the selection for the night, I’ll just rent on TWC or iTunes. However, I don’t expect all of that for free.

I know I’ve said this before, but the money has to come from somewhere with satellite and cable hemorrhaging video customers and makings damn near nothing off the ones they keep.

Supply and demand. The demand is coming from a different source, but the supply still needs compensation.

Just rented Safety not Guaranteed last weekend, and while it was obviously not Blu-ray, it looked and sounded really decent on my high-end system.

Totally acceptable for many kinds of movies, and is definitely an option as part of the mix of content we watch.

SC

Or borrow and rip it, but that is another discussion …

If done properly, this rental strategy could work for everyone. But greed is a powerful foe that will likely derail cooperation for years to come before things settle down.

They don’t add new films and tv shows and the stuff they ha e on there is old ad a lot of B movies.

What Netflix should be doing is regularly adding new content to keep its subscribers happy which is what lovefilm is doing.

I cut the cable a few months ago and save money with netflix and iTunes subscriptions to tv shows. I like watching current content.

In my opinion, Netflix is the best deal out there. We dropped cable TV and now rely on over-the-air (OTA) and streaming video — and are saving $100 per month.

We had Amazon Prime and dropped it. We have Hulu+ and that is close to being dropped. We have Netflix and my family would kill me if we dropped that. The whole family is using it.

They shouldn’t be licensing anything from the studios. They should be streaming everything a studio has and paying the studios ‘per view’ fees or some other packaged rate for the content that is viewed by the customer.

Who cares if its available? Its sitting there like a DVD on a store shelf generating no revenue until its bought.

Netflix or anyone in the streaming video business should be pushing a structure that gives them everything a studio has available and paying the studio for viewed content.

That would allow a lot more content to hit the services and give the studios incentive to crank out good product. Just like the box office, if your movie is good you’ll see a lot of ticket sales, if it sucks well that is the way the cookie crumbles.

If done correctly video services would see less up front costs and good studios will see greater revenue from streaming services.

The whole industry is backwards right now.

“movies are more disposable now than ever before…..now that DVDs have cratered”

Netflix has reached critical mass, folks… the pickens are slim. For a while they were the only game in town and that is changing rapidly… Hulu is now offering cash for films and Amazon is spending a fortune… There doesn’t need to be only one player – due to the integration of the television (smart tv, roku, apple television whenever that is mass produced ((not the apple tv box))

I use this as an example:

How would you go rent CASABLANCA?

Netflix doesn’t have it.
Hulu doesn’t have it.

only Amazon has it. Prime members get to stream it for free, if not a prime member you pay $2.99 for the streaming rental.

Your MSO (cable operator) also has it available on PPV for anywhere between $1.99 or $3.99 in HD…

That’s ONE title (a major title) available streaming only on Amazon…

good luck to the consumers looking for specific titles in the future who only subscribe to one SVOD system (nflx, amzn)

-jon

If it wasn’t for a full year upfront cost, I would be switching to Amazon Prime, technically it’s cheaper, plus free 2 day shipping.

The fact that Netflix cost $7.99/mo streaming, and they have all the Star Trek series, keeps me glued. But when I am done with Star Trek, bye bye…

Get better content, relevant and worth watching. B movies only go so far.

I mean, it’s Christmas. Get some relevant Christmas movies, like, “The Christmas Story”, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Santa Claws, Home Alone. You know, those annual favorites.

If it’s the studios fault because of licensing unreasonableness, then Netflix either needs to figure out what they are doing wrong, or they are the hated kid on the block and better shut their doors, because there’s no hope.