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Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:11 am**

Remember that whole Qwikster thing?

It's already gone.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:27 am**

Well, so much for my theory that they are brilliant strategists. Clearly they're instead idiots.

The separate company was a good idea, and they should have stuck with it. They should also have enabled API tools to allow the two accounts to communicate about items in queues for easy use by customers that want both as if they were one and the same. But they really should spin off that DVD business before it sinks them.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:17 am**

They should also have enabled API tools to allow the two accounts to communicate about items in queues for easy use by customers that want both as if they were one and the same.

Exactly.

I bitch about the same thing with AT&T. If I call my sales rep, who is crazy overworked and has no support staff, he can do certain things to my account that the local store can't. That's stupid. My account is password protected, and I'm the only authorized user. I should be able to walk into that store and do ALL my business as if I was talking directly to my rep. However, they're on two different systems. And please understand I'm not talking about anything that would take away commission, so that's not an issue.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:47 am**

We canceled the streaming, and they are only $1 cheaper than Blockbuster now. They only thing keeping from dumping them entirely is the availability of television series' that I'm watching. Once those are watched, I may cancel it entirely and just use Red Box. Already started using Red Box for new releases while I finish all the series in my Netflix queue.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:15 pm**

As someone who has only ever had streaming, and has only ever wanted streaming, I have seen absolutely no changes in Netflix, besides content coming and going.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:34 pm**

It was getting harder for us to find stuff to watch. We started adding things to our queue that seemed like they might be interesting/funny and more often than not, weren't. They have a shit ton of stuff out there, but it started to seem like a ton of it was shit. We decided our entertainment dollar was better spent for us with Red Box. We are also considering Blockbuster just to stick it to Netflix.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:01 pm**

Archer.
The League.
Scrubs (Seasons 1-4, although the rest are watchable, but not the same level...)

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:09 pm**

Farscape.

There's a Netflix sticky thread, post things that should be watched, there.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:30 pm**

I started watching Archer, and liked it. I've watched a shit ton of Scrubs, but not all of it. Watched The League as well. But honestly, TV shows are much like PC games for me. Have a HUGE list of both I want to go through, but don't have enough time to do them all. So, I let the streaming go. So, I guess that also contributed to dumping the streaming. Because watching a season and a half of Scrubs, marathon style would burn me out and I wouldn't go back to it for weeks/months. So, again, the service sat unused. Would watch the other shit shows hoping to find another hidden gem that was something different from whatever I had just over watched.

Long term, I might find myself switching between streaming and dvd by mail. But I think Red Box will stay a constant.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:43 pm**

One thing that streaming Netflix got me watching that I hadn't anticipated is documentaries. I've always liked them, but wouldn't go out of my way for them (except "A Fistful of Quarters"...).

Now I find they're easy to find and watch thanks to Netflix.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:50 pm**

I can no longer fathom going to a store or a Redbox kiosk and renting a physical copy of a movie. Partly it is because the nearest iteration of either is a 15 minute drive for me, but the other part is... why would I? There's more content on Netflix than I can keep up with, and if there is something I want to watch that Netflix, Vudu, or Time Warner On Demand doesn't have, if no one wants to take my money, then it is always available on torrent 5 minutes away. Everything is seemlessly hooked into the big screen TV so I sacrifice nothing in the audio/visual department.

Have a membership to rent flicks at a brick and mortar, and then get dirty, scratched up media? As if.

At least, that is how the shit at Blockbuster used to be, when I last used them 6 years ago. They even started a new policy back then that NO, you MAY NOT inspect the disk before you leave the store. Fuck that. This was right when they started "No Late Fees/Except yeah there are late fees" thing. Last 3 DVDs I rented from Blockbuster were scratched all to hell.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:11 pm**

RARELY had a problem with Blockbuster DVDs. We rented A LOT from them. Would get them through the mail and we could return them to the store instead of mailing them back for three from the store. There were times when we would have 6 DVDs from them. It was rare that one wouldn't play because of damage. I would say that playability problems with the DVDs happened as often as playability problems with Netflix streaming did. Neither happened enough that I'd dump the service completely. And as far as watching TV, I put new releases/movies above other things. That's why I like Red Box and DVD through the mail.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:36 pm**

I quit using Blockbuster when they lied to me. They stated in an ad that you could get a free rental for every Netflix envelope that you brought in. Not "limit one per customer" or anything like that. Just any you brought in = a DVD rental.

I just happened to have 642 of them in a box I had been tossing them in next to the TV. So I took them in. I didn't expect to get 642 rentals, but it was the start of Spring Break so I could have gone for six or so pretty easily. It was more for the chuckle we would have at the store together, me and the nice video guy.

Nope, no six rentals. Just one. And the guy was a raging dick about it, too. So I tossed my rental card on the counter and told them to fuck off.

Posted: **Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:10 am**

Netflix from 300 to 78/share.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:00 pm**

New episodes of Arrested Development coming exclusively to Netflix in 2013.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id....41a69eE

Edited By GORDON on 1321750849

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:07 am**

More movies dropped as they shift more to TV.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:31 am**

1. They lose Starz content, today. I *think* that might include Disney stuff, but I could be wrong about that.

2. Remember the conversation about Netflix killing the ability to watch on 2 devices at the same time, with a single account, unless you had some sort of family plan? I did it last night with no trouble, so maybe they dropped that plan when they had their Quickster fiasco.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:32 am**

GORDON wrote:1. They lose Starz content, today. I *think* that might include Disney stuff, but I could be wrong about that.

And if I would hit the link before I commented on it, I would see that I am correct.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:12 am**

2. Remember the conversation about Netflix killing the ability to watch on 2 devices at the same time, with a single account, unless you had some sort of family plan? I did it last night with no trouble, so maybe they dropped that plan when they had their Quickster fiasco.

I've been doing that for some time now. The wife would be upstairs watching Grey's Anatomy, and I'd be downstairs watching Burn Notice.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:26 pm**

Leisher wrote:
2. Remember the conversation about Netflix killing the ability to watch on 2 devices at the same time, with a single account, unless you had some sort of family plan? I did it last night with no trouble, so maybe they dropped that plan when they had their Quickster fiasco.
I've been doing that for some time now. The wife would be upstairs watching Grey's Anatomy, and I'd be downstairs watching Burn Notice.

Last night the wife was in the bedroom watching Jericho and I was in the living room with Sports Night.