Sep 192011
This is in response to the ceo's letter to me and the 200 comments I read from users bitching him out.
http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html?lnktrk=EMP&g=47B2C1C26C6923171AA9F2EE3F01196C0AC0315E&lkid=netflixBlog
I don't have Facebook so I can't comment with all the idiots about this.
A couple things I find rather funny about the comments I’ve read. First people complaining about managing two queues! We already do that…we have a dvd queue and an Instant queue..Whats the difference now? Oh you have to open another window to manage stuff, boo hoo get over it.
Second one I like is the comparisons between talking and listening for phone services or any other apple or orange comparison. Shipping a DVD is not the same as Streaming! What a concept people. I don’t agree with making them separate companies…that logic is beyond me. Unless its just a corporate posturing to sell one off.
When Netflix stopped doing friends and community on their site that was their biggest downfall. Whats big right now..social networks, what did netflix do? Got rid of one of the coolest interactive social network I’ll ever use.
I dropped the DVDs and soon will be dropping the streaming because mainstream movies (available on DVD) aren’t available on watch instant. This sucks and I know it’s not all netflixes fault. With hollywood contracts that don’t allow netflix or redbox to carry new releases for 90 to 180 days after the dvd release their hands are tied. Not that I want to hear netflix whine like babies but that would be something worth addressing in the public forum. Trust me the public would take your side and you’d have new releases the day they came out! I expect if people knew you weren’t allowed to carry new releases because Sony or Pixar would sue you…the public would be just as passionate about your plight as they are about your separation of dvd’s and streaming.
People don’t buy dvd’s and bluray much anymore. They stream or rent. When hollywood cuts off redbox, blockbuster and netflix in an effort to boost sales all they really do is promote piracy. If I can’t stream a movie from you. It’s easy for me to “Pluck it from internet tree” then to drive my happy ass to Best Buy and shell out 20 dollars for something I’m going to watch once.
Please make a bigger stink about the unreasonable contracts you have to adhere too. I think Hollywood need a kick in ass to get up with the times.