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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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9/19/11 10:15am
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Netflix spins off DVD business |
Netflix is spinning off it's DVD renting business as a separate company named Qwikster. Netflix will just be focusing on streaming video. Qwikster will rent physical DVDs, Blurays and even videos games. No new changes in prices.
Guess now we know why Netflix wanted to separate the streaming and DVD rental plans.
Not too crazy about the name though.
http://www.dailytech.com/Netflix+to+Spin+Off+DVD+Service+with+Qwikster+CEO+Apologizes+for+Lack+of+Communication+/article22771.htm |
IvanDF  Title: Veni, vidi, vici
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Registered: 2004-11-28 11:24:08
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Date Posted:
9/19/11 10:15am
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Netflix spins off DVD business |
yea I don't get this move, I'm on board for the video game rentals, but I dont get why you have to change the name of the dvd rentals.
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Lannai Posts: 103
Registered: 2004-10-7 21:55:56
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Date Posted:
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Netflix spins off DVD business |
These guys are driving me MAD. How hard is it to not screw up a perfectly good business model. I don't know who the buffoon is that is making these decisions...but it can't possibly be the same guy who created the business (and yes I read the email they sent me). This pretty much guarantees I quit. I'll keep my $23 a month and just use redbox. Splitting the website so I have to use separate sites for my dvd and streaming stuff is ignorant. That means I now have to manage 3 profiles on 2 different sites. Total imbeciles...
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Lannai Posts: 103
Registered: 2004-10-7 21:55:56
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Date Posted:
9/19/11 10:15am
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Netflix spins off DVD business |
Ravynmagi posted:
Netflix is spinning off it's DVD renting business as a separate company named Qwikster. Netflix will just be focusing on streaming video. Qwikster will rent physical DVDs, Blurays and even videos games. No new changes in prices.
Guess now we know why Netflix wanted to separate the streaming and DVD rental plans.
Not too crazy about the name though.
http://www.dailytech.com/Netflix+to+Spin+Off+DVD+Service+with+Qwikster+CEO+Apologizes+for+Lack+of+Communication+/article22771.htm
And yes...dumbest name ever.
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Vyxar  Title: Arbiter Elegantiarum
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Registered: 2002-3-13 04:54:08
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Date Posted:
9/19/11 10:15am
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Netflix spins off DVD business |
You have a company that offers 2 services. What in Gods name makes you think that splitting them up so that you have to maintain 2 portals for customer access/service is going to save you money?? I could honestly sort of bend my head around the idea that the streaming and disc by mail services were 2 different things and needn't be automatically lumped together. But my God, this guy has gone bat [profanity] crazy.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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My guess is Netflix sees the DVD rental business declining and the streaming video business booming. So they want to spin off the DVD business and let it go die quietly without it's name attached to it. *shrug*
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Notice tho they are still bleeding customers from the price change and should be going under soon.
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Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
Posts: 55
Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
9/19/11 10:15am
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Netflix spins off DVD business |
Greybear1andonly posted:
Notice tho they are still bleeding customers from the price change and should be going under soon.
Umm ya I don't see that happening anytime soon considering Netflix accounts for 20% of US Bandwith Usage.
That's a lot of customers.
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Karsus_the_Great Title: This is a title.
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Registered: 2003-4-12 21:33:04
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Date Posted:
9/19/11 10:15am
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I wonder how this is going to effect you as netflix started shafting you with the game of, stream this tv show, season one disc one is only on dvd only, disk 2+ available for streaming...
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Date Posted:
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It's like New Coke...
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