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ando wrote:and a Woody Allen splurge

And apparently those Allen titles are in HD. We'll see.

SamLowry wrote:in Genealogies's case, I don't believe it has ever been available at all

I got Genealogies the the week Ruiz passed away.

A Serbian Film has been removed from your Queue. We no longer offer this movie for rental. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you find many other movies to enjoy at Netflix.

This messaging is new, right? If they're now being this blunt about dropping discs they used to carry, it doesn't bode well.

The '66 Batman? Not unless they've resolved a decades-long rights issue. We'll probably see The Day the Clown Cried on DVD before we see Batman.

Is it available in any country? Do you know what exactly the rights issue is?

They sometimes show it on TVLand, though not in the past two years.

The issue is that Fox owns the TV show and DC Comics owns the character.

Perkins is right; I imagine one company has one conception of the character while the other has another.

I've heard there are bootleg sets out there sourced from the original tapes, in great quality...

Perkins Cobb wrote:

A Serbian Film has been removed from your Queue. We no longer offer this movie for rental. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you find many other movies to enjoy at Netflix.

This messaging is new, right? If they're now being this blunt about dropping discs they used to carry, it doesn't bode well.

Their messaging is, at least on my account, wildly inconsistent; I've had titles disappear, move, etc. without the slightest explanation; I've also had messages pop up and then not correspond to any concrete activity on my queue. Their site is obviously programmed by morons.

I'm guessing they were planning on carrying Serbian Film due to the number of people whose "saved" queues it must have been in... then I imagine they heard what it was about and decided otherwise, pathetic schoolmarms that they are.

As for Genealogies, I guess I should have moved that up my queue earlier... it's not a good sign, though -- is their new policy to remove a filmmaker's films immediately after his death?

knives wrote:They sometimes show it on TVLand, though not in the past two years.

There is a TV channel called the Hub, that has been showing these for about the past year. I got em all on my DVR.

Speaking of the Hub, they also show The Wonder Years. There was some discussion of this series on the previous page and disappointment over Netflix using different music. I can confirm that the episodes on the Hub have the original Joe Cocker theme, but I don't know if any other music has been replaced.

kidc85 wrote:

The '66 Batman? Not unless they've resolved a decades-long rights issue. We'll probably see The Day the Clown Cried on DVD before we see Batman.

Is it available in any country? Do you know what exactly the rights issue is?

This series, if we speak of the series, has been running almost daily in Canada on a cable channel called Teletoon Retro for a few years. Not sure whether the music has been messed with. It also apparently runs in many countries worldwide; the myriad legal issues with respect to music, unpaid walk-ons, IP ownership, etc. are discussed further at the Wikipedias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(TV ... home_video

I find it odd though that Sony can release the '40s movies.

Feego wrote:Speaking of the Hub, they also show The Wonder Years. There was some discussion of this series on the previous page and disappointment over Netflix using different music. I can confirm that the episodes on the Hub have the original Joe Cocker theme, but I don't know if any other music has been replaced.

I've seen three of the Wonder Years episodes on Netflix. The theme song is a live version of Cocker's "Help with my Friends", but I heard Byrds, Buffalo Springfields, Tommy James, etc. during the episodes themselves. As long as it has "Tears of a Clown" during the School Dance episode, I'll be a happy camper.

Warning: nostalgia-factor is HIGH with this series. It got really dusty in here at the end of the first episode (if you remember what happens, you know why).

For those who haven't already noticed, The Walking Dead film and season one television series were added today. The 4.5 rating (highest I've ever seen on Netflix) piqued my interest for I've never watched either the film or the tv series. Can anyone here vouch for such a high rating?

Oh, thanks.

ando wrote:instantwatcher.com doesn't take those measurements into account, do they? But I suspected it was too high to be believed. Ha.

Actually, I took my post back because I see it also gives a complete average when you click on the title's main page that is indeed 4.5

And I took mine back.... Good Lord. I'm watching the movie. Much simpler.

Netflix has abandoned Qwikster.

They'll remain one site, one login.

This is a nightmare from which I cannot wake up.

Today's Times Article

Well, at least I have no excuse not to finally watch The Mask. It was added today.

DVDs stay on Netflix website, Qwikster name gone

I wonder now if he is going to readjust the pricing structure.

Now somebody's gonna have to merge these damn threads back together!

“We underestimated the appeal of the single web site and a single service,” Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman, said in a telephone interview. He quickly added: “We greatly underestimated it.”

This made me laugh.

In a time where people want one device that makes calls, emails, stores their music and movies, lets them read the news, book a dinner or theater tickets simultaneously...I could see how he'd under-estimate people's desire for convenience.