If that's your attitude, isn't stealing always going to be "better" than paying for something?
No point in even bothering to try and compete with torrents, the people who aren't willing to pay aren't going to accept any paid option.
It's the same point that Steve made about why you don't need a Blu-ray drive in you Mac. People complained then, but how many of you went out and bought an external Blu-ray drive for your Mac and if you did, how often do you use it.
"In the next five years, Edwards believes the expansion of public Wi-Fi and cellular coverage will make the idea of offline viewing obsolete."
That's in cities, in the US. When are these people going to realise that most people don't live in cities with Western Internet speeds?
I like Netflix. Use to love them, but all the limitations from the studios means that most good movies aren't available for years. Still, I agree that wifi/cell are becoming better and available everywhere. The original programming is starting to set them apart. And if they get into full length movies, they could potentially shake things up.
But Netflix is still in a bad spot. They don't control the content (except what they are producing) and that is hurting. And they dont control the delivery which more and more is controlled by those that control the content (aka Comcast/NBC). Netflix is being squeezed on both ends. If they can create enough content of their own, and if Apple ever delivers on a true cable cutting Apple TV, there could be a great match possible.
So this guy that posted must have not realized many commercial airplanes have wifi and in five years I bet all of them have it.
Anyways, you are paying for a streaming service. His real reason is prob studios don't let them due to piracy concerns. Once you are jb it should be easy to just copy the file so they would have to spend even more money for some type of security and create a new format that will probably hog resources like Java.
followed by like he said it is a bandaid to a relatively short term problem. They have limited resources. Since it is a short term problem that will solve itself why spend the resource on it when they can spend them on something else that bring a bigger return on investment.
followed by like he said it is a bandaid to a relatively short term problem. They have limited resources. Since it is a short term problem that will solve itself why spend the resource on it when they can spend them on something else that bring a bigger return on investment.
This guy must have never commuted on the tube.So this guy must have never flown on an airplane then ...
]For me, Netflix has a very poor choice of shows for the money
The quality of service of the torrented product is often better though, payment aside. Can be viewed offline, used on multiple devices / easily transferrable, no drm, best catalog of product, etc.
"Potential Netflix Customer to Netflix Executive: Me Subscribing To Netflix? Never Going To Happen"
The reliability of streaming services like Netflix is just abysmal (maybe I can blame Verizon for that).
I find iTunes rentals right on AppleTV, for 2.99-3.99, instant gratification, is much better than going and hunting down a way to pirate it safely, waiting for the download.
His point was that it is a waste of money, time, negotiating with rights holders etc. to do something that will be obsolete in 5 years.
To be fair, wifi equipped airplanes are becoming increasingly common.
Let me get this straight - Very poor selection FOR THE MONEY?
It's $8.00 a MONTH!!!
Netflix has a great selection for that money... and they have many new, exclusive shows in the pipeline. Since it's not exactly breaking the bank, you can afford to get shows elsewhere, as well, I assume. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
Yes but you have to realize that Netflix is the deliver. I can just as easily turn the table around and say what good it is to have the content but no ways to deliver them effectively, or mainly cheaply.
I will admit that watching tv shows with the wife has becoming a routine and a form of entertainment for the both of us. But at the same time that's only because Netflix is able to keep the pricing at a acceptable level. If I have to pay the other provider $100+ a month just to watch reruns and commercials I'm pretty sure we will soon phase out watching TV show as an entertainment and go and do something else.
Let's just say that it's because of netlfix and its low rate that we considers this as a acceptable form of investment of entertainment. So from my prespective if the big guys what's to sequence Netflix out then that's fine with me. But just know that I won't pay them a cent for the services. I'll just watch good old news on my digital antenna and spend more time doing something else.
To be fair, wifi equipped airplanes are becoming increasingly common.
I definitely understand his short term point, and people hate managing their content, as we learned with the original Apple TV, but I don't understand why they couldn't just encrypt the file and make it only able to be read by the Netflix app on iOS...
I wouldn't go so far to say that downloadable media will be obsolete in the next 5 years, but that still can't be considered a mark against Netflix, because...yeah, that's not what they do.
You have plenty of options to download movies. iTunes. Amazon. Google Play. Netflix is for streaming.
Download to have offline use is one of the last obstacles that content providers have. Solve that, then the torrenting use drops like a stone.
Um it's not what they do NOW. Netflix began life as a disc only service and only started streaming in 2007 after 10 years of successful business with over 1 billion DVD's shipped to homes.
Every single one of those billion DVD's, and all those delivered since could be watched offline.
So yes, Netflix's CURRENT business model revolves around streaming...
I am 100% confident in saying this is not a technology issue. This is a licensing issue!
Maybe you can. NF has always been reliable for me, never has flaked out. Like ever. Time to look at your internet provider.
To be fair, wifi equipped airplanes are becoming increasingly common.