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• Maybe Blockbuster online is NOT SO MUCH BETTER - jsm 12:58:09 07/27/11 (3)
  In Reply to: RE: Blockbuster online is SO MUCH BETTER posted by mbnx01 on July 13, 2011 at 09:38:50

  While I am ticked at Netfilx price increases ( and I am one their earliest subscribers), at least they unlimited streamimg for one price. With Blockbuster you have to pay for each video you stream, regardless if you are also on a rental plan. So far I have never received from Netflix an ordinary DVD when there is also a Blu-ray version; Neflix always sends me the blu-ray version. So if streaming is important to you, then perhaps Bolckbuster isn't that much better. Incidentally, I usually get blu-ray quality on my streaming from Netflix if the original is available in HD as well as excellent multichannel sound.. Amazon also provides excellent streaming service at a fixed fee, but I like to be able to rent discs as well as stream. The biggest problem for me is that I find it extremely difficult to find anything that I consider worth watching- no more than five of the new movies each year. But that's my problem.
  
  Joe
  

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  • You can find 5? - Kal Rubinson 13:54:08 07/27/11 (2)
    In Reply to: RE: Maybe Blockbuster online is NOT SO MUCH BETTER posted by jsm on July 27, 2011 at 12:58:09

    I cannot ever find that many of interest and, frankly, fewer on Netflix than on BB. Hence, streaming and pay-per-stream makes sense to me.
    

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    • RE: You can find 5? - jsm 15:31:34 08/01/11 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: You can find 5? posted by Kal Rubinson on July 27, 2011 at 13:54:08

      Five was my upper limit. Of the five, maybe one are two are movies I really like. I do try, though, based on reviews in the NY Times and other places, but I guess my tastes differ from most reviewers. One great thing I've discovered in the streaming world is many old fine movies that I somehow managed to miss. I just watched "That Obscure Object of My Desire" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was so simple to download it.
      
      Joe
      
      

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    • Movies to stream - Condorsat 08:26:27 07/28/11 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: You can find 5? posted by Kal Rubinson on July 27, 2011 at 13:54:08

      That's what I am finding too. I only downloaded one movie in the last 6 months from Netflix. Most movies I like to watch (foreign, Criterion, Classic Cinema, Film Nori ... etc are only available in the hard media format. I'm dropping the stream option from Netflix ... trying Blockbuster hard media for 30 days free. If I like it ... I'll just go with Blockbuster and drop Netflix all together.

      What really bugs me about Netflix is that they are wanting to get out of the DVD/Blue Ray by mail business. Fair enough ... but their online streaming (from my perspective) is not nearly robust enough yet. I had 66 movies in my queue and only 6 were available for download. I am willing to go to all streaming but their video selection has be better than that. If and when they get a better selection ... how much will that cost? Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities ... predicts Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion!!! in 2012. Apparently the major studios are no longer seeing Netflix as a niche player. How many further prices increases will it take to pay for their increasing content costs?

      
      If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
      --Zen Proverb
      
      
      

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      Edits: 08/01/11
• RE: Blockbuster online - Condorsat 06:47:18 07/26/11 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Blockbuster online is SO MUCH BETTER posted by mbnx01 on July 13, 2011 at 09:38:50

  Blockbuster has a current offer of 30 days for free. I'm probably going to give it a go. If it works out ... I'll drop Netflix.

  I am starting to think that you are right. Netflix really is giving the proverbial fickle "finger" of fate to their old customers ... read article below.

  
  
  If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
  --Zen Proverb
  
  

  • Netflix Is Simply Not Concerned With The Prospect Of Losing   (Open in New Window)

  
  

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  Edits: 07/26/11

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