Can someone answer this question – is it true when I do a title search, and the title shows but the message with it says it’s not available streaming, that means it’s available through the home disc service? It doesn’t say that explicitly.
However, most if my searches don’t even get that, they just bring up titles that are somewhat close to the titles I put in. And if that means the title isn’t available at all, by streaming OR disc, then the disc service definitely isn’t worth it.
I’ve been looking, and I must have been at Amazon instead of Netflix when I saw the rental fees.
I think I’ll keep Netflix after the free trial is over. I’m watching Poldark now, a British costume drama from the 70’s. It’s free on Netflix but Amazon wants money for it.
If you can keep up a continual watch list, Netflix streaming is still the best value around. You can fill in with a few movies on Vudu at $4 a pop, and the TV series not yet on open streaming can be had for 50-99 cents an episode on Amazon.
The other thing that Netflix seems to have been doing in the last year is just SHOVELING crap into both the disk and streaming files. You know, those garbage exploitation movies, made or retitled to catch a big movie’s wave. You see them at grocery stores, where well-meaning grandmas and idiots buy them, thinking it’s the massively hyped Disney or Pixar release. Just tons of them flooding the lists, making it hard to search for the legitimate title. Probably done to bulk up their number of offerings at minimal costs… but great for the grindhouse/b-movie/bad actor crowd.
I subscribe to the Netflix disc-by-mail service and I don’t mind that the listings include “garbage exploitation movies.” I expect Netflix to be comprehensive, so that virtually anything and everything released on Region 1 DVD/BD is available for rental. (Actually my only complaint is that I’d like them to start offering Region 2 DVDs so that I can watch stuff that wasn’t released in the US.)
Seems like a good place to ask this…
I stream Netflix through my Xbox and it mostly works great, however very often we get booted out of whatever we’re watching at around 30 or so minutes into whatever we’re watching. It takes us to a notification screen that tells us we’re logged out of Xbox Live and so we have to log back in and reload what we were watching. I’ve found info online about others having this issue, but no answers on what causes it or how to fix it. Just wondering if anybody here has experienced this, and if so were you able to do anything to keep it from happening?
I believe that streaming is going to be the future way we all acquire media content. But it doesn’t seem like the future is here just yet. Movies and shows come and go from availability. The MSN homepage linked to this article just this morning:
This issue, along with the lack of Blu-ray quality and issues like the poster above mentions (loosing access to the movie while in progress) tell me that streaming is not yet the way to go. It can’t yet compete with a good solid disc in my hands.
Except that with a disc, you have to get off the couch, find the disc, open the case, and put the disc in the player. 
Streaming is wreaking hell with my attention span. I’ll watch something for 15 minutes, remember something else I’ve been wanting to see and watch that. Right now I’m in the midst of My Dog Skip, Poldark, a documentary on New York, The Ghost and the Darkness, and My Name Is Earl.
Or I go to the Netflix site, find one movie I like, it recommends 10 others, and before I know it an hour has gone by with me doing nothing but browsing and adding movies to my queue. I think I’ve spent more time browsing than watching.
Check out http://instantwatcher.com It’s a great way to keep in touch with what’s available on Netflix streaming, they have a list of the newest and most popular stuff.
Yep. Same thing happens when browsing books on the Kindle. Better than a bookstore, because I can leave without buying and not feel guilty.
I’ll do that. Thanks.
ETA: 13 Assassins is #48 on the list. If you haven’t already seen it, it’s quite good. The Keep is set to expire – that’s going on the list. Loved that movie.
Netflix just announced their 4th qtr results. They added two million subscribers in the quarter.
Unsurprising. It’d take someone who was pretty hot under the collar to cancel for a single outing, even on December 24.
The subreddit “NetflixBestOf” always has great recommendations on the front page.
There were probably a hand full for whom that was the final straw or something but predictions of a 15% drop were way beyond ridiculous.
Probably the result of all the tablets given out at Xmas.