Netflix Prepares for a Streaming Only Subscriptions Future
Netflix seems to have found the recipe of success with its Watch Instantly streaming service. The service has been activated over 1 million times on Xbox Live or about 10% of all subscriptions. That’s probably why Netflix is considering offering only the streaming service in the future. The Watch Instantly service currently holds about 12,000 movies while the disc collection has about 100,000 titles available. So it looks like we’re a long way to go until Netflix will make the permanent switch to streaming only subscriptions. What do you think? Ready to make the switch?
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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July 5th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Netflix must be rethinking the online-only option since they chose to force users from Window Media player to Silverlight. A large percentage of current users report huge drops in quality, low frame per second rate, and intrusive image compression on anything other than a powerful late-model PC. Given users tend to use older second PCs or lower-powered laptops for their online viewing, Netflix reputation for high quality streaming is falling fast. To top off the questionable decision to move users to a downgraded platform, Netflix are refusing to allow users unhappy with the new player to revert to the previous one. Netflix may have been running well ahead at the start of the online streaming revolution, but bad technology decisions will surely drag them back in with the rest of the mediocre pack. Furthermore, their plans to offer an HD-quality service for the growing number of users with more than adequate bandwidth have taken a very distant back seat, given that the Silverlight player is incapable of providing good quality on the standard resolutions they offer now. The available bandwidth is no longer the limiting factor, but rather the poor performing Microsoft Silverlight player (apparently still performing very poorly for fullscreen video in the beta version 3) is crippling Netflix’s ability to offer a quality service.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Absolutely not! And neither are a lot of other subscribers. The internet, especially in the United States, just doesn’t have the bandwidth for that kind of traffic. A lot of folks are stuck with internet with usage restrictions that would outright forbid downloading an entire movie in much less than ten minute chunks.