Netflix cancellation

[Sixxxxer]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

It's a balance that is for sure. But I just think people need to be reminded that they need to make profit. That is always the primary goal of every company.

I 100% Agree with you on that...But there's a fine line between charging people for a product and alienating them to the point of losing your profit gains.

Honestly, Blockbuster held the title for YEARS as the top dog in movies and then modern technology came along and they thought they could keep on keepin on and now there going bankrupt and you dont see a blockbuster in any town anywhere...There version of Redbox sucks ass I had on at my Job, it broke every other day and we took it out.

With that being said, Netflix was top dog in online streaming...but there will be new players in the game soon who can offer if not the same...More and if they dont act now there gonna end up just like blockbuster.

[Gas Man]

yeah but technology changed the game on many people... adapt or die

[Sixxxxer]

Again, I agree.

Netflix isnt doing much "Adapting" IMO...There arent many movies i actually want to stream when I browse there Queue, Licensing is the reason behind that.

[AquaPython]

i have gotten a lot of use out of the streaming, but because the selection is so dismal, i am thinking about cancelling as well. was going to look into hulu plus

[defector]

I think I've watched just about everything I want that is available to me (stream only).

But the wife just decided she wanted to watch all the seasons of Charmed that she missed, so we keep it for now.

[EpyonXero]

They want to get out of the disc business, thats why they dont mind losing customers that dont want to pay extra. $8 a month for streaming only is still a good deal.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

They want to get out of the disc business, thats why they dont mind losing customers that dont want to pay extra. $8 a month for streaming only is still a good deal.

only problem is their streaming selection is shrinking cause they don't want to spend the coin to get the licensing.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by Sixxxxer

I 100% Agree with you on that...But there's a fine line between charging people for a product and alienating them to the point of losing your profit gains.

Honestly, Blockbuster held the title for YEARS as the top dog in movies and then modern technology came along and they thought they could keep on keepin on and now there going bankrupt and you dont see a blockbuster in any town anywhere...There version of Redbox sucks ass I had on at my Job, it broke every other day and we took it out.

With that being said, Netflix was top dog in online streaming...but there will be new players in the game soon who can offer if not the same...More and if they dont act now there gonna end up just like blockbuster.

The new players will face the same problems that Netflix is facing. If they get remotely large enough, the content providers will rape the fuck out of them for licensing fees. In this niche of the market, the content providers are turning the screws to put them under or get a large chunk of the change. They don't give a fuck about the new business models. They're still trying desperately to hold on to the old models of distribution and will do anything they can to destroy the new methods of distribution. Netflix happens to be the biggest, and they're going to eat the biggest piece of shit right now, but if Amazon, Hulu, or whatever else got as big, they would get the same assraping over content that Netflix is under now. All the newer is promising, but their content blows.

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by Trip

only problem is their streaming selection is shrinking cause they don't want to spend the coin to get the licensing.

Yeah, they werent expecting that.

But like Corey said, companies like STARZ see how many people watch their content on Netflix and want a bigger piece of the pie. I bet they think they can make their own streaming service and keep all the profits, no way they go to Amazon or Hulu. A top network like HBO knows their content is valuable and wont sell it to anybody. I think the reason STARZ got into this deal was because they were at the bottom of the barrel and didnt have anything to lose.

[Particle Man]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Price-....html?x=0&.v=1

their stock is down by 15%