Vent about Netflix

[Tinkermommy]

They took half of Season 1 and all of Season 2 of Spartacus off of streaming!

I don't know if this is Netflix's fault or Showtime but it is so frustrating.

They keep taking episodes on and off.

There are some movies I have in my queue that when I go to watch them they are gone too!

It's just frustrating!

 

[LuvOrlando]

Usually they warn you with a countdown of some kind, it does stink & I am not a fan of it either but I guess that's how they rotate things around and keep people interested.

 

[surfergirl602]

They took half of Season 1 and all of Season 2 of Spartacus off of streaming!

I don't know if this is Netflix's fault or Showtime but it is so frustrating.

They keep taking episodes on and off.

There are some movies I have in my queue that when I go to watch them they are gone too!

It's just frustrating!

Because of this and because of the new ruling that they can't get new releases for a month or so after they are released, we no longer use netflix.

 

[Praying Colonel]

They took half of Season 1 and all of Season 2 of Spartacus off of streaming!

I don't know if this is Netflix's fault or Showtime but it is so frustrating.

They keep taking episodes on and off.

There are some movies I have in my queue that when I go to watch them they are gone too!

It's just frustrating!

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a Starz decision, not Netflix. According to this, Starz is wanting 10 times more money to renew its deal with Netflix, and this may be Starz' way of applying pressure.

 

[Toad_Passenger]

I wouldn't be surprised if it's not a Starz decision, not Netflix. According to this, Starz is wanting 10 times more money to renew its deal with Netflix, and this may be Starz' way of applying pressure.

I'll have to search for a link, but I also thought I read that Starz only wants them to show older episodes for shows that are currently "in-season."

 

[TwingleMum]

wrong post

 

[BellvilleDad]

My wife thought I was obsessed with Lost, but I was more obsessed with watching the whole thing before it got pulled.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

I'll have to search for a link, but I also thought I read that Starz only wants them to show older episodes for shows that are currently "in-season."

That makes sense, otherwise it's effecting their DVD sales.
But I understand the frustration. They used to have all seasons of The I.T. Crowd, and now there are just 2.
Oh, and I wanted to watch The Graduate. It wasn't streaming, so I ordered it from Amazon. About 2 weeks later, it was streaming.


ETA: They have all 4 seasons back! If you want to laugh like crazy, watch this show. It's one of my favorites!

 

[TwingleMum]

My sons loved Oswald and it seems to be gone also

 

[HelenePA]

http://instantwatcher.com/ this place will give you a list of new and titles expiring soon

 

[Toad_Passenger]

That makes sense, otherwise it's effecting their DVD sales.
But I understand the frustration. They used to have all seasons of The I.T. Crowd, and now there are just 2.
Oh, and I wanted to watch The Graduate. It wasn't streaming, so I ordered it from Amazon. About 2 weeks later, it was streaming.


ETA: They have all 4 seasons back! If you want to laugh like crazy, watch this show. It's one of my favorites!

I believe the IT Crowd thing had to do with the quality of the uploaded files. When Season 4 first went up, it was up and down for about a week because of "quality problems." It did kind of suck, though, a friend of mine wanted to watch it (based on my glowing recommendation!), but they only had Seasons 1 & 4. Why watch something that you can't see the middle?

I'm glad 2 & 3 are back, since The Dinner Party & The Work Outing are 2 of the best episodes!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

http://instantwatcher.com/ this place will give you a list of new and titles expiring soon

 

[Tinkermommy]

http://instantwatcher.com/ this place will give you a list of new and titles expiring soon

Thanks!

 

[FireDancer]

It is almost certainly a Showtime issue, not Netflix. Netfilx would like to stream every show the second it is released. This is yet another example of content owners making it harder for people to actually view their content and if they make it easier to pirate than to watch the show legally the way you want to watch it (as in streaming not buying DVDs) that is what people will do.

The television industry has learned about as much about modern content delivery as the movie industry has which is very little.

 

[Kat77]

That makes sense, otherwise it's effecting their DVD sales.
But I understand the frustration. They used to have all seasons of The I.T. Crowd, and now there are just 2.
Oh, and I wanted to watch The Graduate. It wasn't streaming, so I ordered it from Amazon. About 2 weeks later, it was streaming.


ETA: They have all 4 seasons back! If you want to laugh like crazy, watch this show. It's one of my favorites!

I just watched my way through The I.T. Crowd. Very funny!

 

[Kat77]

http://instantwatcher.com/ this place will give you a list of new and titles expiring soon

Thanks!

 

[scrapquitler]

They took half of Season 1 and all of Season 2 of Spartacus off of streaming!

I don't know if this is Netflix's fault or Showtime but it is so frustrating.

They keep taking episodes on and off.

There are some movies I have in my queue that when I go to watch them they are gone too!

It's just frustrating!

Probably a contractual thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it's like the thing with the Satellite Companies and the various TV channels where they take the channel off the air while they negotiate a contract.

 

[scrapquitler]

Because of this and because of the new ruling that they can't get new releases for a month or so after they are released, we no longer use netflix.

Doesn't bother me a bit. If I've waited 6 months to watch a movie, a few more weeks isn't going to make a difference.

 

[bicker]

Premium services have realized that streaming and even DVD releases relatively soon-after-broadcast have a very significant negative impact on their core revenue: Subscriptions. I know I dumped HBO and Showtime and switched to using Netflix, exclusively, for movies and the television series broadcast on the premium services. So I'm paying $10 per month for the combined content of three services (HBO, Showtime and Starz) instead of $15-$20 per month to each one of them. That's a very substantial cut they're experiencing.

 

[KristaTX]

We tried Netflix (streaming only) for a couple of months after we bought a Blu-Ray player. I wasn't impressed at all, and we discontinued it. It just seemed like a bunch of TV shows and mostly oddball movies we'd never heard of.

We watched an episode of "21 Jump Street", but the video was not very clear.

The movie options stunk and it was a struggle to find anything we wanted to see. I did enjoy the movie Babies, and there was some Bruce Willis movie about people having robots living their lives for them that we kind of enjoyed. But we had to search long and hard for that. And the Bruce Willis one was kind of jumpy. We couldn't tell if it was the streaming or if it was supposed to look like that.

I guess Netflix must be way more enjoyable if you have movies delivered to your house, because we sure couldn't figure out why so many of our friends LOVE Netflix and have been customers for years.