Netflix (DVD Delivery Discussion Only)

[swo17]

Dear Perkins Cobb,

How many more free DVDs do we have to send you to get you to stop complaining about our company?

Sincerely,
Your friends at Blockbu--April fools! It's Netflix

[D50]

Last week was the 4th week in a row with consecutive 1 day shipping. My mailman and Netflix hub are on a roll.

[Perkins Cobb]

They seemed to be improving, but then I had a couple turn up three days late last week. If I keep getting 12 that will, indeed, have the desired effect of mollifying me, but I have to assume there's some kind of formula behind that which will turn off the faucet at some point.

[D50]

After nearly a month of 1 day service, usps and nf are back to their miss and hit self, aka the new normal. My library in the mean time is covering the gap, though they did have a couple of essential art house films that are cataloged as Criterion Collection.

[D50]

Xavier Dolan's Mommy shipping soon! Maybe tomorrow.

[Perkins Cobb]

As of this week the door seems to have slammed shut on all those extra discs, as abruptly and mysteriously as it opened.

[Michael Kerpan]

Netflix Streaming now makes me scroll down about 20 rows of suggestions/recommendations in order to find the movies I already I have said I want to watch.

[gorgeousnothings]

Netflix Streaming now makes me scroll down about 20 rows of suggestions/recommendations in order to find the movies I already I have said I want to watch.

This is something to do with its algorithm/coding. My friend had the same problem and apparently if you don't watch anything from "My List" in a while it slowly moves further down the page until it's at the very bottom. Just watch something from your list and it should pop back up closer to the top.

[Perkins Cobb]

Good lord.

Oh, and my extra discs suddenly started up again after a week or two of only getting the number I'm supposed to. No idea as to the logic behind this, but it's actually a pretty good deal now, as the number of discs that arrive late has gradually dwindled to only 10-20%.

[D50]

For tomorrow:

[movielocke]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/bu ... ?referrer=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Down to 33 centers, heavily automated and the source of all their profits.

[Perkins Cobb]

Very interesting. Confirms a lot of things we've deduced the hard way here over the past year or two. I just wish they'd reported the worst cost-cutting measure Netflix has used to keep the DVD division profitable: the major cutbacks on acquisition of new disc releases.

[D50]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/bu ... ?referrer=

Down to 33 centers, heavily automated and the source of all their profits.

"next-day delivery service for 92 percent of its subscribers."

85 percent of the time...

"Netflix now counts more than 65 million streaming members in more than 50 countries... ...company expects its streaming business to just break even globally through 2016"

"Netflix has 5.3 million DVD subscribers, a significant falloff from its peak of about 20 million in 2010; still, the division continues to churn out hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year."

[captveg]

"Netflix now counts more than 65 million streaming members in more than 50 countries... ...company expects its streaming business to just break even globally through 2016"

"Netflix has 5.3 million DVD subscribers, a significant falloff from its peak of about 20 million in 2010; still, the division continues to churn out hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year."

A lot of that has to do with their aggressive expansion into those world markets. Once that infrastructure is established those costs should go down significantly.

[Numero Trois]

Once that infrastructure is established those costs should go down significantly.

And once geo-blocking is done away with in Europe.....

[D50]

Squeaky wheel got some grease.

[Perkins Cobb]

Their new system for e-mail alerts as to what has been received and shipped is a disaster, of course, but at least the phrasing opens the door for yuks.

We sent you All the Sins of Sodom‏

[D50]

Their new system for e-mail alerts as to what has been received and shipped is a disaster, of course, but at least the phrasing opens the door for yuks.

I've found that you can get a reaction from them if you reply to the email alerts with comments, complaints, etc., even though you instantly get the form mail stating they "aren't able to respond to each message."

The 9 disc fire hose mailing above (The Turin Horse was added) was in response from a phone call, where the tech said he'd send me my 2, and an extra 2, and the supervisor said he'd send 2 on top of the 4, total of 6, and they ended up sending 9.

[colinr0380]

It sounds as if you may be the Andy Dufresne of the Netflix queue D50! Send them two messages a day rather than just one now that they have responded!

[Perkins Cobb]

Ask them to compute the value of pi to the last digit and see if you can bring the whole mainframe down!

[flyonthewall2983]

Instant to part ways with Epix at the end of next month.

[flyonthewall2983]

FWIW, it appears Hulu has picked up a new deal with them probably similar to the one they made with Showtime.

[EricJ]

Instant to part ways with Epix at the end of next month.

Darn, first StarzPlay and now Epix--There go the last of the "real" mainstream-studio theatrical movies on Netflix. :(

(Well, if I'm ever in the mood for a gay drama, an indie horror movie, or a food-scare documentary...)

[flyonthewall2983]

They still have deals with Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm and The Weinstein Company, so I think they'll be okay. Plus they still have loads of older mainstream movies in their library.

Interesting you brought up Starz, because I'm wondering when they'll make a play for getting back in the online game again. They had a good thing going with Netflix, and it's still a little beyond me as to why they left.

[EricJ]

They still have deals with Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm and The Weinstein Company, so I think they'll be okay. Plus they still have loads of older mainstream movies in their library.

And Dreamworks, of course, who not only have exclusive deals for their movies, but to also try to get Netflix to rescue their studio by pimping every single danged character who ever appeared in a DWA movie into a new Netflix Original Series.

Interesting you brought up Starz, because I'm wondering when they'll make a play for getting back in the online game again. They had a good thing going with Netflix, and it's still a little beyond me as to why they left.

Guess they wanted to go it alone, especially after Netflix customers complained that the StarzPlay movies were so much poorer quality encoding than the movies Netflix got from other sources (back when Netflix was selling HD as their big draw, and Starz was stuck in DVD-quality SD), which didn't improve relations between the two.
We'd sure take 'em now, though.