Netflix offers more blu
- Posted March 1st, 2008 at 23:34 EDT by
- 12 Comments
Due to the overwhelming demands that the Blu-ray consumer has been causing for Netflix, they are preparing to finally beef up their arsenal of titles available. They've stated that somewhere around 1,500 titles will be brought in for rental usage by its customers.
It is not yet known how many of these titles will be unique and how many will be just a surplus of stock for their already in-stock items, fortunately, it will more than likely cut down wait times for those queued items.
We figure that these figures are in complete relation to the format war finally ending and Netflix now recognizing that they need to offer a wider and deeper selection for their subscribers. One of the side-effects to this however is the fact that it may increase costs for the consumer. With high definition movies coming at a higher expense rate in comparison to standard definition, it only makes sense. Take this with a grain of salt for now though, as nothing has been set in stone.
"It seems apparent that content will cost us more. Whether we raise prices will be entirely a function of churn, subscriber acquisition costs and gross margins." CEO Barry McCarthy stated.
We'll let you know if and when they decide on a price increase or not.
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pandaSmore
- 2:16am GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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@ IRONMAIDEN
The format war isn't over yet it's still Blu-Ray Vs. HD VMD.
It was on Engadget.
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BC1973
- 5:01am GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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Blu Ray has beaten HD DVD but as good as it is I do not think it will ever beat DVD as the format of choice. Everyone I know including all my family have a DVD player in one form of another and when you can pick up a new DVD player for £10 in the UK then I can't see Blu Ray ever becoming the single format. All the same I am proud to be in the BLU RAY camp.
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Paranoimia |
Paranoimia- 6:02am GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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The industry wants to move us to hi-def - don't forget, Sony and Toshiba didn't just decide to come up with these new high-capacity discs... the INDUSTRY asked companies to come up with a new media for HD content.
So the industry will eventually force it upon consumers by phasing out DVD, meaning that the only way to watch new films will be to buy a new player. I'd guess that within 2 years, we'll start seeing some smash-hit movies released on BD only, and that will increase until DVD is dead. After all, more and more movies are filmed in HD these days, so why waste time down-scaling everything for DVD and losing quality?
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vipergts2207 |
D-Smitty- 4:22pm GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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@ pandaSmore, how many people have even heard of HD VMD. Blu-ray finally ended the war with HD-DVD. Any war with HD VMD was over before it started. Also, how many movie studios support HD VMD, because all of them support blu-ray now.
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