Category Archives: Netflix
Rumor-Mongering: Netflix In Bed With Limbaugh
You’d be hard-pressed to name a company that had a worse year in 2011 than Netflix. So it seems perfectly appropriate Netflix would be taking a bunch of crap for being a supporter of Limbaugh, despite its claims that it’s not. Related articles Limbaugh Boycott Targets Netflix, Other Advertisers(huffingtonpost.com)
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Time for Reed to Fly
Netflix released its 3rd quarter earnings yesterday. Just shy of one million customers declined to swallow the price hike and left the service over the course of the quarter. In July the stock was near $300. Yesterday it fell below $100. Related articles Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers in three months, stock tanks (mercurynews.com)
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Netflix Goes Schizophrenic
It just gets deeper, this hole that Netflix is digging for itself. I received an email this moring from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, regarding the huge price increase. The text of the letter and a further explanation can be found here. I messed up. I owe you an explanation. It is clear from the feedback [...]
Negotiating With Netflix.
Image via Wikipedia As many of you are probably aware, the new pricing structure for Netflix went into effect yesterday, Sept 1. It would be more accurate to say the pricing structure goes into effect for each customer based on their billing date after Sept 1. My billing date is late in the month, so [...]
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From Dusk Till Dawn
I came across this movie while browsing Netflix. It stars George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as quasi-bad guys. It also stars Juliette Lewis, Selma Hayek, Harvey Keitel and Fred Williamson. It is directed by grind house enthusiast Robert Rodriguez. I won’t reveal any of the plot other than to say it is a very [...]
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Rumor Has It The Cost of Netflix is Going Up (UPDATED)
Image via CrunchBase Perhaps dramatically so. Subscribers are supposedly going to be informed by email this evening. UPDATE: It’s no longer a rumor. Egads. People are not happy. So for instance, our current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans: Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming [...]
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Free Month of Netflix
If you’ve never tried Netflix, you can check it out with a free 14 day trial. But I have a special offer. If you are interested I can expand that free trial to an entire month. Let me know where to send the email offer. If you are a regular visitor here you have read [...]
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Mad Men Coming To Instant Netflix
I missed Mad Men when it first appeared a few years back. Although it has been highly acclaimed and all as among the best shows ever to air on television, I thought of it as a series you had to be aboard as it left the station and not one you could hop on east [...]