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Netflix Keeps Getting Reamed: The Best Streaming Movies Might Go Away - Streaming - Gizmodo
The freshest movies on Netflix Watch Instantly come via Starz Play, an arrangement where Starz resells Netflix their movie licenses. As predicted, studios are playing hardball with Netflix, and Disney movies could be the first to poof from instant streaming. Disney's currently in negotiations with Starz for the rights to its movies over the next few years, and it wants a lot more money from people who watch Starz online—like through Netflix—and if things go badly, it could mean no more Disney or Dreamworks movies on Netflix streaming, according to Bloomberg.

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http://gizmodo.com/5670190/20-of-all-peak-us-internet-traffic-is-netflix-streaming
A recent study says that 20 percent of all downstream internet traffic during peak times in the US is Netflix streaming. No wonder Netflix is considering disc-less, streaming-only subscriptions. The stat, though surprisingly high (we assume the other 80 percent is porn, torrents and Kyle FaceTiming himself), shows why Netflix is aggressively pushing into streaming, even at the expense of its disc catalog. For new releases from a bunch of major studios, Netflix users will have to wait a month to rent the discs. This, in exchange for slowly building a better streaming library.
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Wow. Just imagine where it will be when Netflix streams more HD content, or when Hulu or others start providing internet based TV.
 
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jlb1705;1797693; said:
I wonder what everybody's watching. I have my queue stands at 100 right now, and only 18 are available for streaming.
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jlb1705;1797693; said:
I wonder what everybody's watching. I have my queue stands at 100 right now, and only 18 are available for streaming.
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We're watching Arrested Development on the stream through Netflix. :banger:
 
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jlb1705;1797693; said:
I wonder what everybody's watching. I have my queue stands at 100 right now, and only 18 are available for streaming.
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These are things I've added to my queue (I usually watch them more often in the summer)

Comedy Central Presents (with about 100 different performances by comedians)

Past seasons of The Office, 30 Rock, South Park, Friday Night Lights (waiting till summer to try this), Arrested Development, 24 (never watched it), Chappelle Show

Lots of childhood/family classics like Karate Kid, Hook, Monsters Inc, Forrest Gump,

SNL best of (Walken, Farley, Carvey)

Action flicks (X-Men, Ironman, Star Trek, Spy Game, US Marshals, Terminator 2, Star Trek First Contact, Air Force One, Quick & The Dead, Batman Returns)

Wall Street, Donnie Darko, Hot Shots Part Deux

etc.
 
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jwinslow;1905098; said:
Netflix streaming every Star Trek series starting in July


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I grew tired of the streaming offerings around the first of the year. It seems everything worth a damn wasn't being offered or had expired.

Since then they've brought back Archer: Season 1 and have made about half of the older Bond films available as well.

In other news, they've also reached a deal to start streaming Mad Men around the same time as Star Trek - in July.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MEUL401.htm

Meanwhile Dish Network has purchased the corpse of Blockbuster. It'll be interesting to see what they do with that acquisition. Was Blockbuster even doing any streaming before they went belly-up? I cant think there's too much that this purchase could offer DN to help them compete in the market for streaming content. Even the name "Blockbuster" can't be worth all that much anymore - they did a good job running everything into the ground over the last decade.
 
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jlb1705;1905200; said:
I grew tired of the streaming offerings around the first of the year. It seems everything worth a damn wasn't being offered or had expired.

Since then they've brought back Archer: Season 1 and have made about half of the older Bond films available as well.

In other news, they've also reached a deal to start streaming Mad Men around the same time as Star Trek - in July.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MEUL401.htm

Meanwhile Dish Network has purchased the corpse of Blockbuster. It'll be interesting to see what they do with that acquisition. Was Blockbuster even doing any streaming before they went belly-up? I cant think there's too much that this purchase could offer DN to help them compete in the market for streaming content. Even the name "Blockbuster" can't be worth all that much anymore - they did a good job running everything into the ground over the last decade.
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Blockbuster streams movies, but you have to pay for them individually. The infrastructure is there for DN to offer streaming similar to Netflix.

The worst thing about this is it's one more company that relies on tv content for much of their revenue, so anything they can do to reduce streaming online helps their bottom line (like AT&T and Comcast limiting downloads so they can protect their revenue from cable).
 
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jwinslow;1905202; said:
Or the studios refused to let them air new releases in HD to protect their precious revenue streams.
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There's no doubt this is going on. For me though, the overwhelming majority of new releases are the antithesis of "worth a damn". Besides, I've been a Netflix subscriber for about six years at this point. To me, a new release is whenever a movie comes out on Netflix. They can delay that by two weeks, a month, three months, six months... I don't care. If I think it might be worth it I'll watch it when it gets to Netflix.

Where I really get bothered is with catalog films - the kind of stuff that's been out of theaters and on DVD for years - being available for streaming and then expiring and disappearing. The Jerk is the latest example I can think of. There's no way that anything other than licensing it to Netflix is generating revenue for the studio. It's not as if people like me see it disappear from their instant queue and go, "Shit, I guess I'm going to have to go out an buy it on DVD now." I just get pissed off and then eventually forget about it.
 
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I'm not sure if this is even true, but I remember refusing to rent from Blockbuster in high school (when they were huge) because they censored videos to fit their beliefs. (Censoring meaning they would only carry conservative versions of videos and not carry some at all-- not that they actually went in and edited the content.)
 
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