Netflix DVD business to become Qwikster 3939 Responses

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• kgvs72

  Sep 19, 11, 6:08 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  Yeah, I got that email this morning. Doesn't seem like a smart move to me, changing the name of your wildly successful, game-changing business after over 10 years, but maybe that's why I'm not the CEO.

  • Two different queues!– kgvs721/3

    Doubtful.– monospaced2/3

    I hope not.– kgvs723/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 6:09 a.m. – Permalink

• kgvs72

  It looks like they want to kill the dvd by mail business so that it survives as a game rental service.

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 6:10 a.m. – Permalink

• randommail

  Them separating the financial books was just a matter of time.
  It makes sense.

  • Not for their customers.– DeSiard

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 6:42 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  As stupid a move as their Web based Instant Queue updates from a while back. I bet that CEO believes every scripted word attributed to him in that email. Bunch of fluff crap.

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 6:43 a.m. – Permalink

• Handel

  The DVD
  1995 - 2011

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 6:47 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  The rise and fall of Netflix is in the making...

  • <-- This.– d_rek

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 6:48 a.m. – Permalink

• BattleAxe

  the last two movies I saw at home came from Red Box and Crackle

  • 2 DVDs 1 Streaming– BattleAxe

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:14 a.m. – Permalink

• pastpastdue

  Two different queues, "but your ratings will be the same at first" and then grow differently according to how you use the services, according to the CEO's comments on Facebook.

  Terrible idea. Netflix isn't about the DVDs OR the streaming. It's about the movies.

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:14 a.m. – Permalink

• ok_not_ok

  Dear Customer,

  I messed up. I owe you an explanation.

  It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing.

  • fucking lol!– ok_not_ok

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:14 a.m. – Permalink

• JSK

  Thinking long term and ignoring the short term.

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:16 a.m. – Permalink

• stoplying

  Qwikster? What a horrible decision on a name ffs

  • I really think they split the business in order to introduce game rentals. Over time, the dvd service will fade out.– kgvs721/2

    In time, disc based games will fade out as well & Qwikster is a horrible name– Nitrus2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:40 a.m. – Permalink

• iheartfun

  Fail Fail Fail.... especially since starz is leaving there ass too. Now there really won't be anything to watch.

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:49 a.m. – Permalink

• Miguex

  I just happened to cancel my Netflix account a minute ago, and now I see this... I guess I was not the only one.

  It was great at first, but when they jacked up the prices, you start to realize that their streaming service should be having more options, they make you wait to get something on DVD because it's not available for streaming.

  It was good while it lasted...

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:49 a.m. – Permalink

• CygnusZero4

  Why dont they just call the streaming service netflix, then the dvd rental service homeflix? If they are insistent about changing the name, at least have something that makes more sense and is less confusing.

  • That's a million dollar idea!– mg331/5

    Because HomeFlix is a real Estate virtual tour company.– ETM2/5

    mailflix– bulletfactory3/5

    ermm - actually no, nevermind– bulletfactory4/5

    that'd be too smart, they don't get it...– popfodders5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:51 a.m. – Permalink

• popfodders

  who cares, companies do this all the time, what's the fucking difference. If Netflix were bought out, they'd be some arm of another company anyway. Pshhhhhhhhh....

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:51 a.m. – Permalink

• CygnusZero4

  Not only is the name change stupid, but the netflix streaming is incomplete. If that is their main service they want to push now, well they might want to think about finishing it first. Dark Knight isnt even up there. So their main service doesnt even have the 2nd most successful movie ever made? Uhhh....

  • < THIS– monospaced1/2

    LOL!– popfodders2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:54 a.m. – Permalink

• DRIFTMONKEY

  Brand poison.

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 7:58 a.m. – Permalink

• stoplying

  They should've called it Coaster, cause that's what all DVDs will be used for.

  • ha– lvl_13

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 8:32 a.m. – Permalink

• vaxorcist

  the name... strange.... there are other businesses with names like that ....

  http://robert-c-potter.searchwar…

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 8:35 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  The thing that's very dumb and inconvenient about this is that, I'm assuming disc and streaming queues will be managed separately now and have no connection between the two.

  So, I guess we won't be able to go through the disc list online and simply watch the ones that are available streaming. Maintaining two separate lists will be idiotic at best, and total bullshit at worst.

  • THIS is what annoys me the most.– duck3

  

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  Dog-earSep 19, 11, 8:50 a.m. – Permalink