THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: cool breeze on September 19, 2011, 01:03:12 AM
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Netflix is now the instant streaming service
Qwikster is the DVD/Blu-ray rentals, plus the addition of game rentals ("innovative")
here are some white people apologizing for upsetting other white people
[youtube=560,345]c8Tn8n5CIPk[/youtube]
and in text! http://blog.netflix.com/
I want to acknowledge and thank our many members that stuck with us, and to apologize again to those members, both current and former, who felt we treated them thoughtlessly
The company cares about me :heart
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lol
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I don't care what you call shit, just do something to make Netflix Canada not suck assholes.
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so fucking bad :lol
*still has streaming subscription*
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Splitting into two brands after one of the sillier, more entitled consumer freakouts of the year. A non-solution to a non-problem. I like it!
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Well, that's one way to kill your DVD-by-mail business without affecting Netflix stock!
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yeah, i never understood that whole melodrama, i mean how many goddamned movies can a person watch anyway
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also i don't believe they could have come up with a worse name than qwikster even if they'd held a worldwide shittiest name contest
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It makes me want some chocolate milk.
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It makes me want some chocolate milk.
Yes, chocolate milk which you download illegally.
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[youtube=560,345]BPS9YKGaKQE[/youtube]
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wait, I have both streaming and dvd service. So now I have to have a sub to both netflix and qwikster?
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NLFX is down over 8% since close :rofl
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hurry up and get to australia
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http://twitter.com/Qwikster
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:lol
A name a 20 year old pothead could come up with
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:lol :lol :lol
Bored as shyt wanna blaze but at the same time I don't ugh fuck it where's the bowl at spark me up lls
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Well, he's gonna be able to afford a whole bunch more weed in the near future
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You guys are stupid if you think their game rentals will compete with GameFly. Mark this post.
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Paying for movies :lol
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Paying for movies :lol
What is the alternative? Stealing them? Watching them cropped to fullscreen on tv?
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Stealing them.
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BU BU BU THINK ABOUT THE MOVIE COMPANIES YOURE HURTING BY NOT PAYING
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It's too much work to download a blu-ray level film and get it to a format I can watch it on my tv in surround sound to steal it rather than buying the bluray or netflixing the disc. It's just plain not the same watching a movie on my laptop.
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It's too much work to download a blu-ray level film and get it to a format I can watch it on my tv in surround sound to steal it rather than buying the bluray or netflixing the disc. It's just plain not the same watching a movie on my laptop.
? My PS3 and 360 play most files natively and come with multichannel audio (either 5.1 or 7.1). They're only a couple of gigs and take an hour or two max to download with my craptastic comcast connection. They may not be quite up to blu ray quality but when I put my "free goggles" on I sure as hell don't care. Pretty damn close.
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Please understand.
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What a weird move.
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It makes perfect sense, though. Mail service is on the decline. In the inevitability that Qwikster shutters, it has no effect on Netflix: the brand, the service or the pricing structure.
I'm gonna stick with it as long as it goes. Streaming offers no where near the breadth of choice that I desire; it's just a convenience.
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I fear the future where studios get greedy about streaming services and pull out from Netflix and distribute themselves or have exclusive deals with various cable on demand services and so forth. It is already starting and is just a big confusing mess of who is streaming what. Digitial distribution took over the music industry because (for the mainsteam) everything they needed was on itunes and easy to get and easy to download.
Digital Distribution for film and television continues to grow more fragmented and disorganized by the day it seems like. There needs to be a standard service where you can get everything possible which netflix was/is trying to be.
There has to be something done because the home video market is dying. Sales are plummeting every year. Netflix and Red Box have killed off buying dvds/blu-rays. And if studios (and Netflix themselves) get to greedy and sabotage Netflix what then?
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Splitting into two brands after one of the sillier, more entitled consumer freakouts of the year. A non-solution to a non-problem. I like it!
:bow
I want to put this on my business card. "Innovative non-solutions to business non-problems"
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So what was this consumers freakout you guys are talking about?
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600k lost subscribers in a month
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that video reminds me of
[youtube=560,345]rDqatJPvOfk[/youtube]
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It makes me want some chocolate milk.
Yes, chocolate milk which you download illegally.
That's my favorite!
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So what was this consumers freakout you guys are talking about?
god you are dumb
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How is he supposed to pay attention to current events with all those torrents running?
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Qwikster, we hardly knew you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/qwikster-dead-netflix-kills_n_1003098.html
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:lol
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:rofl
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You guys are stupid if you think their game rentals will compete with GameFly. Mark this post.
Nailed it. Can't fuck with GF.
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hahaha, that pothead on twitter got greedy and blew his chance at a fast (or should i say QUIK) buck
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So none of this has actually affected me or my Netflix account.
But I really enjoy how every new press release seems to begin "When we made our last announcement, we were trying to enhance our customers' experience. At the time we did not realize how many people would feel adversely affected by these changes..." It's basically an apology followed by the new plan that they'll apologize for next month.
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Man, I was hoping the value of the three Netflix DVDs I haven't returned for maybe a year would have gone up- might as well send em back at some point.
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So none of this has actually affected me or my Netflix account.
But I really enjoy how every new press release seems to begin "When we made our last announcement, we were trying to enhance our customers' experience. At the time we did not realize how many people would feel adversely affected by these changes..." It's basically an apology followed by the new plan that they'll apologize for next month.
The Obama Strategy
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Its funny, I noticed Blockbuster going hard on Netflix/Qwikster recently with their commercials. Its like that and the community reaction 'caused them to turtle.
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Qwikster, we hardly knew you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/qwikster-dead-netflix-kills_n_1003098.html
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