What hajario said.
This will get you started, but there are hundreds of other examples.
Frankly, I think the content providers hate the Netflix all-you-can-eat model and want to force everybody to pay per view. I expect them to eventually destroy Netflix streaming in terms of getting any recent content.
The providers love Netflix for helping monetize old content that they no longer were getting income from. They don’t like Netflix getting a cut of money off of newer content. If the content providers succeed in shutting down Netflix, we may wind up with a system where each studio runs its own service, either PPV or subscription, driving even more people to pirate movies. But hey, they now have a warrantless, un-appealable 6-strikes and you are off the internet policy, so all is good for them.
That is my only real complaint.
I was watching Apocalypse Now on January 31, and had made it half way in.
On February first, when I went to continue, the movie was gone.
I learned my lesson: Don’t wait into the new month to finish your movie.
It’s really just a constant stream of stupid. It has gotten better, but at no point has it come even close to a threshold of exhibiting basic logic or reasoning skills.
Keep an eye on FeedFliks. It tells you what just showed up on Instant, what’s coming in the next month and what’s going to disappear in the next two weeks.
For example, I just started Psych, but before I started I checked FeedFliks to see how long it would be around for. Looks like it’ll be there until October 2013,* should be plenty of time.
*It’s not 100% reliable. But I’ve only seen movies and shows hang around on instant past when FeedFliks said they would disappear, never before (IME). My WAG is that when they show up on instant (or when Netflix announces it), Feedfliks puts the info on it’s website. If Netflix later changes the date, FF, probably either doesn’t have access to the new data or doesn’t repoll NF for it.
How you do Pit something that costs 8 bucks a month, is not a necessity of life, and that you voluntarily pay for?
It’s not like people in the supermarket abusing the express lane, bad drivers, or politicians. You know, the annoyances of life that you have no choice but to put up with. If you don’t like Netflix, you can just cancel the service. Problem solved.
This, thanks.
This. Netflix is a brilliant service. Yeah they don’t have everything on instant, but who cares? I’ve got tons of things I can watch instantly like MST3K, Mad Men, Soap, A Bit of Frye and Laurie, Lost, South Park, Monty Python, The Office (american and UK) The Kids in the Hall, The Addams Family, tons of solid documentaries from National Geographic and PBS, and a few movies besides. I’ve got nearly 300 things in my queue, and that’s not counting the stuff I just pick up randomly off of other categories. All this without getting up off my ass. Computer, XBox 360, Wii, PS3, smart phones. How is that not good enough for you? Do they need to stream it right into your mind?
If you can’t find enough to watch and enough ways to watch on Netflix instant, I don’t think there’s a single video service that will help you.
What is Netflix? Maybe I’ll start a GQ thread about that.
My only complaint about Netflix is that it locks up my Sony Blu-ray player occasionally and requires power cycling and unplugging to work again. Other than that, I’ve thought it was pretty neat. Lately, I’ve been watching scifi from the 90s and early 2000s that I might have missed a few episodes from when it was originally airing. I’m almost done watching all of Farscape in order, then moving on to Star Trek TNG, or maybe Doctor Who.
It would help if you misspelled “Netflix” when you do.
It’s best if you do a search of his threads (you can’t link to a search, or I’d do so). A lot of times he’ll put a thread in GQ that really belongs somewhere else.
Kids love Netflix, they watched the entire Buffy series over the summer!
Not enough 3d movies.
If the price increase means that there will be a better selection for streaming video then I’ll pay $10/month for it.
Right now I am hoping someone like Blockbuster largely abandon’s their current mondel and moves to a Netflix type platform and provides some competition.
With that said, between huklu and netflix, I have access to more for a lot less. Combine that with the internet phone (the new phone lines do not carry their own current so when your internet goes out, your phone service frequently also goes out.
I know for a fact that their “DVD by mail rates” have decreased, not increased. My 2-out-at-a-time plan went from about $16 down to $11, or something like that.
And I am very happy with their service. About 99% of what I watch is DVD only, so I’m not interested in streaming. And the selection is great. Old movies, foreign movies, esoteric cult movies–no video rental place of old could ever hope to compete with what Netflix offers.
A fantastic service at a fantastic (and, for me, lower) price than ever. Plus, I can put DVDs in the mail Monday morning and get my next ones Tuesday. I’m still not sure how they do that.
The only way I can see that happening is that you dropped the films in the mail early enough on Monday that they get to Netflix that same day. I get films on Tuesday by putting them in the mail on Saturday. Early on Monday morning I get the email saying that the films have been received.
I have a 3D television, but this limitation doesn’t worry me too much.
I didn’t buy my TV for its 3D capability; i bought it because it got excellent reviews for picture quality. It came with a copy of Avatar 3D, which we watched just for the hell of it, but 3D is still very low on my list of priorities when choosing a movie. It still seems rather gimmicky, and too many of the movies that have it aren’t very good movies, IMO.
Someone told me once that the USPS provides a service to Netflix by scanning the envelopes and sending the return notification electronically to Netflix.
I spent the last 4 years without cable (due to a poorly academically focused child and a lack of late-night self-control on my part as well). We added Netflix Streaming only when we picked up an Apple TV.
Our biggest use? BBC stuff. Camelot (stopped watching it - too much emo by Arthur), Robin Hood (total popcorn, but streaming we can just watch 45 minutes of an episode), Sherlock Holmes (the new one - LOVE it, can’t wait for more). Now we are almost ready to start Dr. Who.
So by being on an entertainment diet, we find a lot of value in Netflix Streaming. All I lack is Apple TV getting a license for some decent soccer content.