

Netflix to cease carrying new HD DVD titles










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Netflix Should Drop Both
By aju on 2/11/2008 12:51:02 PM , Rating: 2
Netfilx should drop both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. They should pump more resources into providing HD content online. They already provide unlimited hours of movie and TV shows (7000 choices) online for viewing on your PC and they are getting ready to release a set top box so you don’t even need a PC. Most people willing to drop all that cash on a Blu-Ray setup would be better off getting a HTPC setup or buying the new set top box. Why spend all that money on media, postage and envelopes when you can just stream it? Then it would not matter what political games the studios play, you could have our HD anyway.

I am sure someone will complain that that would take too long to stream HD content, but that is a moot point because you have to wait a few days to get it via the mail so what’s the big difference? Microsoft already has HD content on Xbox Live, so it can be done. The worst case would be you might have to let it buffer for a bit, but even if you had to wait a day our two for it to download, it would still be faster than snail mail.

The cool part is that it would screw the hardware manufactures who force the consumer into buying unnecessary hardware because they are too greedy to agree upon a common format. For instance, if Blu-Ray wins, all the current owners of HD-DVD players will get screwed and they will be forced to by Blu-Ray which costs more and provides less features and no online content. Sure it may do so in the future, but current Blu-Ray stand alone player owners will be screwed as they have no hardware to hook up to the internet with.

I say Netflix should tell them both to %&*# off. Do not buy either and get your HD content online.

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By Chaser on 2/11/2008 1:13:43 PM , Rating: 2
Netflix is responding to demand. It's profitable for them.

Neflix is lucky to not have you running their company.

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By sweetsauce on 2/11/2008 1:44:43 PM , Rating: 2
For once i agree with you, they are responding to demand, but not in the way you think.
The company is partnering with LG Electronics to develop a set-top box that will allow you to stream movies from the internet straight to your television -- look for it in the second half of this year
Im sure they really care about how blu and hd-dvd are going to do.

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By TerranMagistrate on 2/11/2008 8:18:44 PM , Rating: 2

As Netflix has proven today, yes they definitely do care hence their decision. Physical media for movies will continue to lead for quite a long time. Until we all start getting T1 connections to DL those 24GB+ movies.

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By darkpaw on 2/11/2008 10:14:42 PM , Rating: 2
I'd hate to download 24gb on a T1, pretty much any DSL and Cable is faster then that except for the cheapest options.

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By bighairycamel on 2/11/2008 2:14:08 PM , Rating: 2
Dude, have you SEEN the movie selection for online viewing? 7000 choices... of suck. Most of the stuff is B movies or 5-15 year old movies. The TV show selection is OK, but the movie selection needs improvement. It's not even worth mentioning until they start adding new releases, with which I'm not sure how licensing works.

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By Oregonian2 on 2/11/2008 2:37:36 PM , Rating: 2
Actually that's the kind of stuff I get from netflix every week. Or even older movies (esp stuff from the late 60's and 70's). Newer stuff I can just see on DirecTV (where we've all the movie channels, many now in HD).

RE: Netflix Should Drop Both
By nemrod on 2/11/2008 2:25:42 PM , Rating: 2

Everybody has a fast internet connexion?

By TerranMagistrate on 2/11/2008 8:26:20 PM , Rating: 2
That's the unfortunate part for all the Blu-Ray haters: most people don't.

Full mainstream popularity for HD downloading on demand is not going to be a reality for a long time. With the way ISPs are charging more for bandwidth and such, this scenario has plenty in common with the HD-DVD format and none of it good.

