Posted on 01/26/2011 8:14:52 PM PST by Slyscribe
Online movie subscription service Netflix (NFLX) is working on an extensive integration with social networking giant Facebook. Netflix hopes the effort will help shift its business over time from household accounts to personal accounts for its video service.
“Our long-term goal is to evolve the Netflix service so that it feels more natural to have a personal account,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Financial Officer David Wells wrote in a letter to shareholders Wednesday. “Our $7.99-per-month plan is for one stream at a time, and later this year we’ll be able to offer consumers some account options to watch multiple simultaneous streams.”
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Good, I’ll stay away from both of them.
Netflix is a great service.
Feed the A.D.D. monster within you.
I don’t have any use for movies so I don’t have any use for Netflix.
Wouldn't want the wife to know about all those women in prison movies I'm so fond of...
/sarc
I like Netflix too. When my cable contract is up I’m pulling the plug on it.
Great! I can watch Godfather 1 and Godfather 2 at the same time instead of watching Godfather 3.
We just told Comcast goodbye today...officially ends Feb 2nd...Netflix and online will be where we go, plus XM/Serius radio.
I suppose who people who have no use for books don’t use libraries either.
Well, I am a Netflix customer, but I would never link it to anything outside of what I am contracted with them for.
Why anyone would expose themselves on facebook is beyond me. It is like grabbing a flag and saying “CLONE ME! CLONE ME! HERE I AM, STEAL MY IDENTITY!”
That or “HERE IS THE REASON I WILL NEVER BE EMPLOYED! LOOK AT HOW I HIT THIS BONG!”
Dumber than dumb.
Will crawl over broken glass before that insidious, invasive, intrusive POS company before they get a nickel from me.
When they learn to respect other people’s bandwidth - maybe then. All their pop-under spams...
Until then, they are in the same shitcan as GE.
They don't only offer movies, but also have commercial-free (unlike Hulu Plus) TV shows, including many interesting documentaries.
I have cut the cable (AT&T U-Verse) cord, and now receive HD channels over an antenna (FREE after initial antenna purchase), and pay only $7.99/month each for Netflix and Hulu Plus through a relatively inexpensive Roku box with no monthly fee.
$16 vs the old $65, with MUCH more to choose from and ZERO (Netflix) to a FEW, SHORT (Hulu Plus) commercials.
Hard to beat.
The Netflix business plan will only succeed if the ISP’s are willing to finance them.
Bandwidth costs money, how fast do you wanna go?
I also now have an account with Hulu-Plus, but other than some hard to find classic TV shows it really really sucks and is not worth the $8 a month. Gonna drop it I think. And I notice the movies are mostly independent films most of which I never heard of, and very left leaning.
Do you have something against the free market? Because it is primarily the free market that allows bastards like me to watch endless streaming movies at the same (or lower) price as you pay to look at a few emails.
Some day there might be some justice. But then that would mean that people would also have to pay for all the content they download, Amazon customers would have to pay sales tax like other retailers, etc.
It's all a mishmash based on who's got the biggest baddest lobbyists in Washington.
Lucky for me the evil scum that run Netflix have bigger badder lobbyists than Comcast.
Or if the ISP's ... who in most cases have government enforced monopolies ... are required by government to carry the content at a "reasonable" price.
All of these decisions will be sorted out in the wonderful free market we call corporate profit funded lobbying.
May the slimiest lawyers win!
Take all the insidious Netflix pop-under/pop-up NEW TABS on multiple browsers and chew on it.
It’s a full-time job to keep this shit off one’s PC.
The free market has consequences, Netflix is a scumbag spammer and I hope they die in this *free market.*
Doing that here. $50 for basic cable or $20 for netflix+huluPlus streamed directly to my Tivo box or computer.
Yea cable loses.
How useless is a 'One Month' subscription to Netflix? How many times a day do I get assaulted with that crap as an attempt to get me to sign up my friends and family?
Fortunately Netflix is not so stupid as to put that crap up while I'm actually watching movies.
Another reason I'm spending more time watching TV shows on Netflix than Hulu which is quickly degenerating into nothing more than a delayed TV broadcast.
BTW, the beginning of all the nightmares on the net is Microsoft's "free" internet browser. If we had to pay for browsers then they would be designed for users. We don't, but the advertisers do. That is why the browsers are set up for advertisers and not for consumers.
That's also why Milton Friedman was proved right once again that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Anyone with a "free" internet browser that isn't spending some amount of money on firewall and anti-virus software is asking for it.
Thank you Bill!
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