RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS

July 18, 2011 at 4:45pm

I've no interest in streaming video--none. I like the DVDs. When they go, I go.

This is the kind of lunacy typical of wannabe visionaries who think the future is today, just because they say so.

DVDs created Netflix. They shouldn't be in a hurry to shit all over them.

ebeale

July 18, 2011 at 11:14am

I watched a movie the old fashion way last night. It was a disk that I owned.

khalladay

July 18, 2011 at 11:06am

I swear everyone has become such winers these days.  Netflix is one of the best businesses Ive ever dealt with.  Everyone has issues, everyone has rising costs so they have to raise prices, besides its just entertainment!  Everybody whos pissing and moaning knows its the content owners driving the price hikes/re-structuring.

Put your anger where it belongs against rising oil and utility costs, that affects more people more desperately than cheap movie watching!

don2041

July 18, 2011 at 10:24am

If they can,t run the dvd end of the business they should sell it to someone who can.

Raswan

July 18, 2011 at 10:12am

Let's play a game, masses of unoriginal, mouth-breathing supposed "techies": Why don't we try to get through an article on Netflix without posting some retarded-@$$ comment about how their whole catalog should be streaming?

You are not saying anything new. You are not saying anything Netflix (as this article says, idiots) doesn't want to do. They spent 400 million last year securing digital content, and plan on spending 1.4 billion in the coming months. What do you want them to do, get a loan from Chase?

lindethier

July 18, 2011 at 10:09am

I switched to the online streaming option as soon as it was available. I've really gotten some usage out of it with awesome shows like The Office and Buffy. Personally never liked the DVD option, so it really didn't affect me with the recent price hikes. As far as the outage is concerned, it was only a slight inconvenience to me.

Apparently alot of other people are more into watching movies than me though, so I can see where their anger is coming from.

bling581

July 18, 2011 at 9:48am

If they want people to move to streaming only then how about getting all their disc content available to stream?  The only reason I still have the streaming/disc plan is because of how much is unavailable via streaming. Forcing people to choose or pay up is such a bad move on their part.

medavid16

July 18, 2011 at 9:33am

 

I feel like the general consumer is being brainwashed, so price because someone didn't estimate the consumers would "all" be streaming by now? What about areas where you just can't get wifi and can't stream? What if you travel alot and just need a physical disk (train/car/plane)?

 

Yes, streaming and cloud is the future, but physical mediums still have a niche.

 

As for the options, come on, the streaming content is not that great even with the new sign ups. There are better options, even Blockbuster has better politics with the minus 28 day policy.

 

I refuse to let Netflix tell me what I should and should not do. If there's a fault, it sure as hell isn't the consumers fault for wanting to stick with physical mediums a little longer. Blame it on the idiot who projected it wrong. Fire him/them, don't raise our prices. Oh wait, this is the other post... now an outage? Embarassing, discouraging and unprofessional to say the least.

 

TheDorkSide

July 18, 2011 at 9:34am

Not much to say but, ugh. I was just going to switch to streaming only but now this? Looks like Redbox will be getting more visits from me. Also the streaming option would be great if everything they offered on DVD was also available for streaming. Somewhere a Cable Corp Exec is giggling.

TerribleToaster

July 18, 2011 at 9:31am

I am beginning to think this is the year of self-destructing companies.