I had three titles on my streaming queue that expired Saturday (actually, I learned something: if it says they will expire on Saturday, Mar. 30th, when you go to look at your queue on Saturday, they will already be gone. “Expire” does NOT mean that the 30th is included).
It used to be that once your streaming titles expired, they just put the titles at the bottom of your DVD queue (which is why I wasn’t in a huge hurry to watch those three movies: I figured, eh, I can just watch 'em on disc). However, apparently this policy has changed, and now the titles just vanish. This makes me sad, because I can’t remember the titles of all three movies. If I had known the titles would vanish, I could have either 1) made a greater effort to make time to watch all three movies or 2) made sure to move them to my DVD queue so that I wouldn’t lose them.
My question is: is there a way to recover my lost titles?
Are you sure that the titles were removed from your streaming queue? At least in the past, when Netflix signed a new contract to extend the availability of a title for streaming, they listed it as expiring before the original end date, and then listed it as new after that date.
TV shows with more than a 100 episodes only have a selection of episodes available and I’ve come accross two-part episodes where only 1 part was available or the 2nd part disappeared before I had a chance to watch it.
Expired movies are just replaced on Netflix. If you wait a few months they’ll come back into rotation, it’s just a way Netflix seems to keep things fresh. “The Thing” was expired for a while, but then came back into rotation a month or two ago, and I was able to catch it then. The problem is it falling off your que.
Not necessarily. I had Frozen & The Crazies in my cue a couple of years ago, left Netflix for about a year and rejoined last summer and remembered that I’d never finished watching either of them. Neither movie has ever reappeared as streaming in the last 9 months (I’m not expecting them appear on my cue, so I check every few weeks). I think a lot of movies just vanish, never to be seen again.
