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MotionMan

MotionMan

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dwell said:
We know your family likes B-movies. Good for them. The rest of America is not going to toss away $8 a month to see crap like The Last Airbender and The Spy Next Door most of which will disappear with the Starz deal either way.
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So Classics = B-movies?

How old are you, anyway?

MotionMan
 
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dwell

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manly said:
I think his point is that a majority of Americans have similar tastes and he's vigorously defending their unfulfilled rights to stream Hollywood's "finest". :D
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Yup. Look at the top 10 films of 2010:

http://www.imdb.com/year/2010/

How many are on Netflix? I got news for y'all. Without us dumb Hollywood movie lovers to carry you, Netflix won't be able to sustain itself long term on "catalog content" alone.
 
SMOGZINN

SMOGZINN

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dwell said:
Whoops :oops: $1B a year coming in from streaming. $300M alone going to NBCU. If they do another jackpot deal like that their returns will be nil for a looonnggg time. Especially since the deals and infrastructure costs scale with userbase you can't "make it up in volume".
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This is one piece of that I think is going to kill Netflix. It is not technology, it is the rights holders colluding to price set their products and keep scarcity artificially high.

Netflix can't sell their product because the manufactures will not allow them to not because of any lack in technology or demand. That is simply not right.
 
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torpid

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I just checked our local library. Most of the movies mentioned above in the adventure section are available for immediate check-out.
 
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LookBehindYou

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dwell said:
This list is probably more indicative of what people want to watch:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?ye...feature&num_votes=1000,&sort=user_rating,desc

Or this:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?nu...ce_gross_us&title_type=feature&year=2010,2010

There's all sorts of ways to specify the criteria, look in the right column.
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It's actually not that bad, if you do it by user votes, 5 of the top 10 are available on streaming: Kick Ass, Toy Story 3, Shutter Island, Iron Man 2, and Alice in Wonderland.
 
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Lifer
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MotionMan said:
So Classics = B-movies?

How old are you, anyway?

MotionMan
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I'm the one that liked B movies. I like the classics too. When I'm not watching Food Of The Gods, I'm probably watching something with Humphrey Bogart or Dick Powell in it.
 
MotionMan

MotionMan

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dwell said:
Some are in some places. Point is no one streaming site is going to have the title you want to watch because none have it all.
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i thought to point was that Netflix selection sucks. Now you are saying all streaming sucks?

MotionMan
 
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dwell

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MotionMan said:
i thought to point was that Netflix selection sucks. Now you are saying all streaming sucks?
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Did I ever claim otherwise? The contention in this thread is that Netflix are dumbasses for trying to champion their pathetic streaming catalog for having astronomically more value than it's worth. It would be like Amazon stopped selling books because the Kindle was doing well.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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LookBehindYou said:
WTF makes those top ten? What was the criteria?
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imdb voters.

these are the same people that voted Shawshank Redemption as the greatest film in the history of the world.

i.e: the criteria is people with shit for brains. (or very little exposure to film)
 
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chowderhead

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MotionMan said:
Are those movies available for streaming anywhere now?

MotionMan
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some of those were on Netflix streaming i.e. the Disney ones but now they have been removed often without any warning. There are lots of examples of streaming content that are missing 1 or 2 episodes so you need to watch on DVD to complete the series. Look, the horrible website interface changes and loss of functionality, the steep decrease in streaming content, the price increases, the splitting of disc/streaming service - ALL of these in total makes the service less useful and less of a value for me as a subscriber. You may enjoy the service still but a lot of people are not happy with what is happening and are deciding to end their membership. That is the free market.

dwell said:
Did I ever claim otherwise? The contention in this thread is that Netflix are dumbasses for trying to champion their pathetic streaming catalog for having astronomically more value than it's worth. It would be like Amazon stopped selling books because the Kindle was doing well.
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Actually it would be like if Amazon decided to split their book selling business into a new website called readster and keep the amazon name for their kindle business.
 
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MotionMan

MotionMan

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dwell said:
Did I every claim otherwise? The contention in this thread is that Netflix are dumbasses for trying to champion their pathetic streaming catalog for having astronomically more value than it's worth. It would be like Amazon stopped selling books because the Kindle was doing well.
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How much do other streaming services charge for their crappy content?

MotionMan
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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dwell said:
Some are in some places. Point is no one streaming site is going to have the title you want to watch because none have it all.
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so....5/10 of the movies that you seem to like being available on Netflix = suck content?

:confused:
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

No Lifer
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chowderhead said:
some of those were on Netflix streaming i.e. the Disney ones but now they have been removed often without any warning. There are lots of examples of streaming content that are missing 1 or 2 episodes so you need to watch on DVD to complete the series. Look, the horrible website interface changes and lost of functionality, the steep decrease in streaming content, the price increases, the splitting of the of service. You may enjoy the service still but a lot of people are not happy with what is happening and are deciding to end their membership. That is the free market.
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so odd that Disney would remove their IP from the market with little to no warning, making it completely unavailable to the consumer.

It's almost like, that is something they have never done.

odd.
 
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