'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Also they changed the way the website looks for streaming. So there are larger icons, but you have to mouse over them to see the ratings, add it to your queue, or add your own rating.
Yeah, that bugged me. I hate the trend of BIGGER IMAGES. Um, how about some FUNCTIONALITY instead?
Huh, I was going to upgrade my Internet so that I could do streaming and reduce my Netflix bill, but now maybe not.
They're going to reduce it FOR you!
I doubt they had much choice. Their studio deals will be expiring in the next year or two, and those will be a lot more expensive next time. DVD sales are dropping so streaming revenue is a bigger deal to the studios, and now there's actually competition.
Pachter predicts Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion in 2012.
All of this is probably why they've been looking into original content as well.
All those dwarves really look like paintings. I think Kili is the first one where I was very familiar with the actor, though.
As I said elsewhere, a hot dwarf just seems all wrong. He doesn't seem to have any facial prosthesis at all!
The new pricing bites though. Beau uses physical media while I only stream. So one of us is going be unhappy or we double the price.
I guess their plan is to have everyone cancel the DVDs? Must be their plan.
Well, it's going to send me in the opposite direction unless they vastly expand what's available for streaming. I can probably watch everything in my queue that's available instantly within a month of dedicated viewing, but DVD selection is in the low 100s.
I can probably watch everything in my queue that's available instantly within a month of dedicated viewing
They own me. I will never finish my streaming queue. I have 200+ discs, and ~200 queued streaming. Ah, well.
Oh, that blows. Unlimited streaming + 1 DVD out is perfect for us, but not at twice the price.
Grr. Us too. My instinct is just to drop the DVD.
I think I am going to drop the DVD.
Does anyone know how to get a new red envelope? I am sitting on 2 DVD's because I have no envelope.
