I made a specific point about getting through my Netflix DVDs by Monday so I could have a couple of movies to watch over Thanksgiving. I did manage to do that and to even remember to put them in the mailbox, and I'm getting my next movies Wednesday. I forgot, however, to rearrange my queue following Halloween because I've been holding onto movies ( Read more... )

The fallout from Netflix's attempt to spin off its services into two separate revenue streams has finally been totaled. It's probably not a surprise that Reed Hastings is still not getting it--a friend of his told him, point-blank, when he mentioned the Qwikster thing, that it was bad idea and he was ignored; he thinks that the uproar was more ( Read more... )

Netflix has abandoned Qwikster, the separation of DVD and streaming that might be the model of the future but which is definitely hurting their brand now. That's the sad part. They might actually have a point that streaming is the wave of the future, and they're smart to want to head the way that is going to be most profitable. But because of the ( Read more... )

Word.

In other news, getting closer to 8 hours of sleep has taken a lot of yesterday's edge off of, well, yesterday. Still have to write that one essay. Still want more sleep. What else is new?

I have to say that as annoying as Netflix's recent moves have been, the smugness of the "Well, I only use streaming anyway, so ther" folks is worse. This post at Balloon Juice is typical of the breed. It's a hipster-esque poseur posture of cooler-than-thou because he gets this streaming that you pathetic people with your digital versitile discs are ( Read more... )

It's fucking stupid. There are a hundred and one reasons that this Qwikster thing is bad news, all of which other people have gone over in detail, and I won't repeat here. For me, it simply comes down to the power Netflix is pissing away in this move. Separating out their business, which I and others think is a sign they're looking to sell off the ( Read more... )

After yesterday's aggravating discovery, the news that Blu Ray sales are disappointing BRINGS JOY TO MY HEART. I am a small and petty person. Sue me.

It's clear which way the wind blows on the issue of physical media, whatever its "definition": high or low-res, digital copies are going to take over. I don't have to like it--point of fact, I don't, ( Read more... )

Oh my. Oh, oh, oh, this made me splutter at work. Um, it's probably not safe for anyone's work but mine, where, because I laughed out loud, I then got to show it around to my other coworkers. Who laughed, probably mostly at me for finding this so funny. But it was.

Ooh, look what's coming to Netflix! I was kindly given the X-Men cartoon on DVD at ( Read more... )

If Netflix has a bunch of these on streaming already, how can having these titles on streaming make Hulu Plus worth $8/month?

And not to join in with the wouldn't-see-a-movie-with-subtitles-if-it-were-a-porno crowd, but those titles hardly appeal. Also, if, indeed, Robocop is on this Criterion collection, why do you need to stream it? You should own ( Read more... )

It has been an exceedingly busy day at work, and I've got about twenty minutes of downtime to share a few things. You will not be surprised to learn they are mostly about movies.

1. Bucky Barnes has a promo still from Captain America. You may be forgiven if you don't spot him right away. (You are also forgiven if you have no idea who he is.) He's ( Read more... )