Comments on: Netflix Offers Unlimited Online Viewing

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:08:59 +0000

I’m thinking economically unfeasible in the licensing sense… Someone gets paid each time a video is streamed.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:48:46 +0000

I just switched from Blockbuster to Netflix. I had been very happy with Total Access, but they made the mistake of hopping up the price to $34.95 w/out offering an alternative program that included Movielink integration. Anyways, love the Watch Now feature of Netflix…Don’t see why it should be economically unfeasible, especially if they start utilizing a P2P technology. Maybe they should buy out Joost?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:32:45 +0000

If not that many people use it, and those only for a small number of movies/TV Shows, then making it unlimited doesn’t cost them much and gets them a lot of press and good will. *If*

By: Bob Remlin

Bob Remlin — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:07:47 +0000

Sounds like a great idea. My Vista lovin Dell 30″ will benefit.

To heck with Mack owners. This is why they have iTuned!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:37:26 +0000

Yah, the build-out and licensing are costing them… and ultimately us. Though it’s mostly the shareholders at this time. I don’t recall the details, but in one of their earnings calls they mentioned millions of dollars being set aside for this. Sounds like there could be a cross-platform Silverlight solution in the pipeline, but who knows when we’ll see it.

I’d probably be willing to shave a buck or two off my bill to turn off the online viewing. I’ve got plenty of Slingboxes and Hulu to cover me when I’m mobile. And movies I generally prefer on the big screen. Not to mention, I used to take Netflix DVDs with me to watch on my laptop (before the DVD drive died).

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:25:57 +0000

I wish I were given the option to *not* have the online viewing option and save a buck or two a month on the subscription. I can’t watch the movies online, since I’m a Mac user and the player only works on Windows. But even if they had a Mac version, I’m not really interested in this feature. I just don’t like watching movies on my computer. If it’s truly, honestly free, I don’t really care either way, but this has to be costing them money, and that money has to be coming from somewhere. And I resent paying for something I can’t use, and wouldn’t use even if I can…