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Jan. 25th, 2007 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenGuess who is ridiculously excited about this?
Okay, so the drawbacks are many. So what if I've refreshed my Netflix page since I read it and still no dice on them making it work for me? So what if I can only watch a few thousand movies--I'm willing to bet there's at least a couple thousand I won't have seen on there!
This is brilliant. You know how some of you have looked at the new iPhone and gone all boneless with pleasure? This is how I feel about this service. I was sure Netflix would have to do something pretty special to compete with Blockbuster, and now they have. Blockbuster finally managed to one-up Netflix with allowing for their rent-at-home service to include rent-and-return to their stores, solving the problem of yes, you can rent a hundred movies, but what if you wanted a new one right now?
And now Netflix has come up with their own answer. Structurally speaking, not enough people will have the equipment at home to make this--on the surface--seem competitive with Blockbuster (plenty of people have Blockbuster stores nearby and nice home theater systems; fewer have great internet/wireless coverage and computers to handle the streaming). On the other hand, people are getting to that point, vastly preferencing high-speed internet access, and faster computers are getting cheaper all the time with better components capable of handling this service. Also, software and servers to house these movies digitally would cost less than real estate to rent a store, doing an end-run around costs accrued by the Blockbuster model. Factor in wages not lost to employees or damage done to property, and I'd say Netflix is looking to run much more in the black than Blockbuster.
Will it take a while for this to be the norm? Maybe. But the prevalence of YouTube and Google Video will groom people to the service, so they're going to come at it savvy enough to use it and be comfortable with the format. Also, concerns about people not "gathering together around the PC" are being made obsolete by the blending of home entertainment to encompass the internet as well as the hi-def TV. Maybe it's just the geek in me, but I know plenty of people who happily watch movies on laptops or at their computer. I do it if I don't have time to commandeer the TV in our house, and I don't suffer for it. I don't miss special features much either (the exception last night was This Film is Not Yet Rated because those extras were bitching and worth staying up until 3 am for). The pricing is right (you pay nothing more for the streaming, just you get as many hours as you sink dollars into Netflix, and if that isn't a hook more sweet than the guy giving you the first hit for free, I don't know what is), the company sound....eeeee!!!!
::refreshes Netflix homepage::
Okay, so the drawbacks are many. So what if I've refreshed my Netflix page since I read it and still no dice on them making it work for me? So what if I can only watch a few thousand movies--I'm willing to bet there's at least a couple thousand I won't have seen on there!
This is brilliant. You know how some of you have looked at the new iPhone and gone all boneless with pleasure? This is how I feel about this service. I was sure Netflix would have to do something pretty special to compete with Blockbuster, and now they have. Blockbuster finally managed to one-up Netflix with allowing for their rent-at-home service to include rent-and-return to their stores, solving the problem of yes, you can rent a hundred movies, but what if you wanted a new one right now?
And now Netflix has come up with their own answer. Structurally speaking, not enough people will have the equipment at home to make this--on the surface--seem competitive with Blockbuster (plenty of people have Blockbuster stores nearby and nice home theater systems; fewer have great internet/wireless coverage and computers to handle the streaming). On the other hand, people are getting to that point, vastly preferencing high-speed internet access, and faster computers are getting cheaper all the time with better components capable of handling this service. Also, software and servers to house these movies digitally would cost less than real estate to rent a store, doing an end-run around costs accrued by the Blockbuster model. Factor in wages not lost to employees or damage done to property, and I'd say Netflix is looking to run much more in the black than Blockbuster.
Will it take a while for this to be the norm? Maybe. But the prevalence of YouTube and Google Video will groom people to the service, so they're going to come at it savvy enough to use it and be comfortable with the format. Also, concerns about people not "gathering together around the PC" are being made obsolete by the blending of home entertainment to encompass the internet as well as the hi-def TV. Maybe it's just the geek in me, but I know plenty of people who happily watch movies on laptops or at their computer. I do it if I don't have time to commandeer the TV in our house, and I don't suffer for it. I don't miss special features much either (the exception last night was This Film is Not Yet Rated because those extras were bitching and worth staying up until 3 am for). The pricing is right (you pay nothing more for the streaming, just you get as many hours as you sink dollars into Netflix, and if that isn't a hook more sweet than the guy giving you the first hit for free, I don't know what is), the company sound....eeeee!!!!
::refreshes Netflix homepage::
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Date: 2007-01-25 10:19 pm (UTC)Basically, Netflix is streaming videos soon, and I am creaming my shorts over it!
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Date: 2007-01-25 10:25 pm (UTC)second point, sounds right up your alley :D
btw, if you watched the SotU address the other night and noticed the whole creepy Bush/Chaney drinking water thing its on Youtube now :D
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Date: 2007-01-25 10:28 pm (UTC)Also, poor Teddy Kennedy. He's like so old and he has to put up with this shit.
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Date: 2007-01-25 10:50 pm (UTC)but if you ever wondered if our current administration are really automatronic and not live people, this would pretty much make you wonder...
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Date: 2007-01-25 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-25 11:11 pm (UTC)very true
maybe that is why bush had to stop talking when cheney and him drank at the same time, whoever controling them both had to take a breath?