JJZolx;609188 Wrote: > Why should any company be expected to offer a service that costs them > money and generates no revenue?
I didn't say they should and who said the old way wasn't generating revenue? I said the take over company 'probably' sees a NEW place to generate revenue. Additionally, because I didn't set up their business model years back when they were offering it for free. It was their decision in the first place to offer it for free and for as long as it has gone on, it has to have been making money somehow some place. If for nothing else all the free information they were able to mine from us, the user base. I am sure somebody in the recording or radio industry was and is willing to pay to get that info. JJZolx;609188 Wrote: > This also makes perfect sense to me (even though I don't like it). > Netflix sees their future as a video streaming service, and less and > less as a DVD exchange system. I would venture that streaming is much > more lucrative for them in comparison to operating their DVD > distribution centers and then adding in all of their postal fees. The > costs of physically processing and mailing discs can only go up, while > streaming costs are likely to fall. And yes that makes perfect sense if NetFlix's business model is changing and they want to force it, profits be damned. To me, it makes no sense to alienate the people that made you successful. I do stream NetFlix on my Roku players, but I also like to have access to movies via DVD on the Tuesday they are released. I don't want to wait another 18 months to two years to stream them for $8 a month. Hell by that time, I can see it on Network TV for no cost! So I am looking for other companies to give my dollars to for just released DVD rentals. Part of NetFlix's problem is to much success. The movie companies only allow X amount of new DVDs to be bought as rental releases. NetFlix has become so successful that their customer base far exceeds the number of DVDs they are allowed to obtain. I had "Gran Torino" at the top of my Queue in position 1 for a month before its release and it took them 9 weeks to finally send me a copy to watch. Not that its all bad, because of Hula Plus, the better half can watch any episode of "Grey's Anatomy" from any season except the current season when before only Season 5 and 6 were available via streaming. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: ModWright Platinum Signature Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Wood Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1, Vandersteen V2W Subwoofer Living Room: Transporter, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Office: Touch with Vandersteen VSM-1s Kitchen: Touch in-wall mount w/ Thiel Powerpoint 1.2s Bedroom: Squeezebox BOOM Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Around the House: SliMP3, SB1, SB2, SB3 Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85478 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
