Netflix Turns Focus Back to Disc

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

Warner Bros just came out and said that it wasn't their pulling content off NetFlix, it was because they no longer have license for it, they were licensing it from Epix. That license expired so they can't provide it any longer. So your concerns about studios pulling content off NetFlix is incorrect. I knew this didn't make any sense because Warner just inked a deal with NetFlix this year. Also the number of titles is less than half the number originally quoted.



http://tv.yahoo.com/news/netflix-str...070648617.html

Again, as noted by EVERYONE, this adding and subtracting of titles happens all the time including by services owned by studios like Crackle, HBO and Epix.

SO AGAIN, NOTHING WAS "PULLED" FROM NETFLIX. TOTALLY WRONG AND MISLEADING.

They also added bunch of titles. Off to watch MI 2.

Not very modern that one? Just watched ghost protocol on bluray, it looks ace. Should be on netflix by 2015. (Only joking)

[slick1ru2]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Not very modern that one? Just watched ghost protocol on bluray, it looks ace. Should be on netflix by 2015. (Only joking)

Ghost Protocol is streaming on EpixHD. I get Epix. I also own it on disc. Its been streaming since about the same time it came out on disc. I won't own the first two in the series because they are vastly inferior, a rental only.

Also, NetFlix has some titles at about the same time they are released in the movie theaters or released on disc. Movies like Deadfall, Safe, The Grey and Coriolanus.

I see that House of Cards is going to cost about the same as subscribing to NetFlix for half a year. Not very cost effective.

And speaking of not very modern, Warner's new overpriced streaming service is full of titles like Gilligan and Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Overpriced and most likely doomed were responses from online media sources.

Renting is hardly anything great. With the lack of stores, declining number of Kiosks its both hard to find a place to rent or if you do their limited number on hand means a good chance they won't have the title you want. As for via mail, my list on Blockbuster@Home is so depressing that they replaced the wording of "Long Wait" with "High Demand". Its ridiculous.

Flight is "Medium Demand",Homeland Season 1 discs are all "Very High Demand". The new Red Dawn and Total Recall "Very High Demand" along with Hitchcock and the new Hobbit movie. These movies came out awhile ago and people just have them sitting in their house, they can't be watching them over and over. I imagine that Blockbuster doesn't have many copies either. I could go on and on, Taken 2, End of Watch, Parental Guidance, Gangster Squad, Django Unchained, The Master, Wreck It Ralph, My Week With Marilyn, etc have ALL been OUT OF STOCK since release and won't be in stock for months or longer. I realistically have a better chance of seeing them streaming.

The truth of the matter is the studios are attacking rentals with crippled rental discs probably becoming the norm. And they delay rentals too while more and more they are releasing streaming versions before physical ones. So don't make out rentals of physical discs as a Utopia.

I am guilty of sitting on movies too. I am going to go watch the Lincoln Vampire Hunter movie. I suspect since I got it easy it sucks, literally. Although I did enjoy the book. Wonder if its disabled. O note, its coming up this month on HBO so barely watching it before I could stream it on HBO Go. Barely.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

Warner Bros just came out and said that it wasn't their pulling content off NetFlix, it was because they no longer have license for it, they were licensing it from Epix. That license expired so they can't provide it any longer.

Even Slate.com got caught with their tech-illiterate rumor-patsy pants down:

* Correction, 8:00 p.m.: This post previously said that movies from the Universal library would also become exclusive to Warner Archive Instant. They will not.

Update, 10:36 p.m.: Joris Evers of Netflix writes in to say that Netflix often licenses movies on an exclusive basis and sometimes chooses not to renew less watched titles. He also notes that many of the movies expiring at midnight were part of a deal Netflix had with Epix.

* Correction, May 1, 1:07 p.m.: This post previously stated that these titles would become exclusively available on Warner Archive Instant. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. tells Slate that the films being removed from Netflix’s streaming service do not belong to Warner Bros.

Um....anything else you wanna clear up there, while you're at it, guys?

SO AGAIN, NOTHING WAS "PULLED" FROM NETFLIX. TOTALLY WRONG AND MISLEADING.

Titles (mostly MGM via ThisTV.com) expired, but nothing was pulled to be evil and conspiratory like StarzPlay. Netflix does seem to attract paranoid rumormongering ever since that...y'know, Q-thing.

FWIW, four of the "Obscure British studio" titles on my queue that were supposed to "expire" came back two days later. Go figs.

They also added bunch of titles. Off to watch MI 2.

I'll pass on the complete Futurama series, thanks, but it'll be retro to give the Airport Year-Trilogy a spin.

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Not very modern that one? Just watched ghost protocol on bluray, it looks ace. Should be on netflix by 2015. (Only joking)

Umm, yeah, I guess you would be, since....it's already been on Netflix for four months now, and available through June '14. Go look.

(One of the little presents from "We Get Big Movies!(TM)" EpixHD, along with Hunger Games, Captain America and Hugo. If we get Avengers and Expendables 2 by August, we'll know the deal's still good.)

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Even Slate.com got caught with their tech-illiterate rumor-patsy pants down:


Um....anything else you wanna clear up there, while you're at it, guys?



Titles (mostly MGM via ThisTV.com) expired, but nothing was pulled to be evil and conspiratory like StarzPlay. Netflix does seem to attract paranoid rumormongering ever since that...y'know, Q-thing.

FWIW, four of the "Obscure British studio" titles on my queue that were supposed to "expire" came back two days later. Go figs.



I'll pass on the complete Futurama series, thanks, but it'll be retro to give the Airport Year-Trilogy a spin.



Umm, yeah, I guess you would be, since....it's already been on Netflix for four months now, and available through June '14. Go look.

(One of the little presents from "We Get Big Movies!(TM)" EpixHD, along with Hunger Games, Captain America and Hugo. If we get Avengers and Expendables 2 by August, we'll know the deal's still good.)

Not in the UK. Ghost protocol is nowhere to be seen. You guys get it early because you got the cinema release earlier. The bluray has been out for a while now in the UK. The clue was in my location.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

Ghost Protocol is streaming on EpixHD. I get Epix. I also own it on disc. Its been streaming since about the same time it came out on disc. I won't own the first two in the series because they are vastly inferior, a rental only.

Also, NetFlix has some titles at about the same time they are released in the movie theaters or released on disc. Movies like Deadfall, Safe, The Grey and Coriolanus.

I see that House of Cards is going to cost about the same as subscribing to NetFlix for half a year. Not very cost effective.

And speaking of not very modern, Warner's new overpriced streaming service is full of titles like Gilligan and Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Overpriced and most likely doomed were responses from online media sources.

Renting is hardly anything great. With the lack of stores, declining number of Kiosks its both hard to find a place to rent or if you do their limited number on hand means a good chance they won't have the title you want. As for via mail, my list on Blockbuster@Home is so depressing that they replaced the wording of "Long Wait" with "High Demand". Its ridiculous.

Flight is "Medium Demand",Homeland Season 1 discs are all "Very High Demand". The new Red Dawn and Total Recall "Very High Demand" along with Hitchcock and the new Hobbit movie. These movies came out awhile ago and people just have them sitting in their house, they can't be watching them over and over. I imagine that Blockbuster doesn't have many copies either. I could go on and on, Taken 2, End of Watch, Parental Guidance, Gangster Squad, Django Unchained, The Master, Wreck It Ralph, My Week With Marilyn, etc have ALL been OUT OF STOCK since release and won't be in stock for months or longer. I realistically have a better chance of seeing them streaming.

The truth of the matter is the studios are attacking rentals with crippled rental discs probably becoming the norm. And they delay rentals too while more and more they are releasing streaming versions before physical ones. So don't make out rentals of physical discs as a Utopia.

I am guilty of sitting on movies too. I am going to go watch the Lincoln Vampire Hunter movie. I suspect since I got it easy it sucks, literally. Although I did enjoy the book. Wonder if its disabled. O note, its coming up this month on HBO so barely watching it before I could stream it on HBO Go. Barely.

Renting is not in doubt. Eventually streaming will win that battle. What it won't win is the sell-through. If that means we go rental only in the future, it represents a rubbish future for enthusiasts. Hopefully bluray will stick around for another decade.

[slick1ru2]

Some form of physical media will be around.

[slick1ru2]

NetFlix is going to be streaming better quality than Blu-ray, and SOON. They are using the same technology that Sony is going to be using this summer to stream 4K to their new 4K TVs.

According to industry estimates, a 4K video — which delivers four times the resolution of 1080p HD — typically would require 18 to 20 Mbps encoded in MPEG-4 H.264. Eye IO declined to disclose the bit rate for its compression of 4K content “at the request of Sony and other studios” that it is working with. But Eye IO CEO Rodolfo Vargas claimed the company’s compression yields 4K assets that use less than one-third the bandwidth Sony initially expected from other vendors.

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news...ce-1200489195/

[JavaJulien]

Kind of makes me concerned prices are going to go up if they're going to use this.

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

NetFlix is going to be streaming better quality than Blu-ray, and SOON. They are using the same technology that Sony is going to be using this summer to stream 4K to their new 4K TVs.



http://variety.com/2013/digital/news...ce-1200489195/

lol, that tech is STILL not as good as blu-ray quality. the rubber and the road don't exactly meet in real world scenarios.

[slick1ru2]

Originally Posted by wormraper

lol, that tech is STILL not as good as blu-ray quality. the rubber and the road don't exactly meet in real world scenarios.

I am going with THX's opinion, not yours.

THX identified eyeIO as a company sharing its dedication to progressing the delivery of professional content without compromise of fidelity or video quality and as a trailblazer in HD and Ultra HD Internet video streaming technology. As such, eyeIO becomes the first in the video streaming industry to receive the new THX Digital Cinema Encoder certification, a rigorous testing program that employs sophisticated, state-of-the-art digital picture quality analysis where THX golden-eye experts validate the video output of a professional grade encoder.

The new THX Digital Cinema HD Video Encoder certification program tests 46 critical data points in six major categories using evaluation test material developed by the top seven Hollywood studios to produce a score that objectively assesses picture quality. A THX score of 90 on a scale of 100 is considered “THX Excellent Quality“ and eyeIO’s H.264 first-generation encoder was able to produce an exceptional 95.528 score at an Internet streaming bitrate of 5.8 Mbps—an astonishing performance metric in today’s professional digital media.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eyeio-...125600814.html

[slick1ru2]

They are using the new approved codec, H.265 which is up to 75% more efficient than MPEG-4 AVC used for Blu-rays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Ef...y_Video_Coding

[rickah88]

Funny how some people totally ignore the thread topic: Disc rental.

[slick1ru2]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Funny how some people totally ignore the thread topic: Disc rental.

And the title is totally wrong. It should read,

Netflix Turns Focus Back To Disc, Yeah Right.

[slick1ru2]

http://www.bizjournals.com/losangele...ntals-but.html

Mar 4, 2013, 12:31pm PST
Netflix passes 4 billion rentals, but focus is on streaming

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

And the title is totally wrong. It should read,

Netflix Turns Focus Back To Disc, Yeah Right.

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

Exactly! He always excels at being "that guy".

[slick1ru2]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Exactly! He always excels at being "that guy".

Don't attack the messenger if you don't like the message.

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

Don't attack the messenger if you don't like the message.

[slick1ru2]

Originally Posted by rickah88

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2