Netflix cans Qwikster, service staying whole

@Senor Whopper
Yeah dont they realize that in a few short years there will be no more dvds or blurays. It will ALL be streaming. Then what would they have done? Change Qwikster back to Netflix? Stupid.

@Klearwater Killer

I hope your joking...

It's funny that Blu-ray is gaining in sales, and physical media still brings in billions of dollars every year (which is a lot more than digital). I guess some people will never understand there there are lots of people that don't care for streaming/digital or you know use both.

@Senor Whopper Man, I look forward to reading the book "How Netflix Was Destroyed in a Day"

Seriously, how have they managed to destroy a company like this? First it was the rates, then this idiotic move, then a withdrawal which just makes them look like they are floundering. I have very little confidence in them at this point.

@CoolBreeze221

Even the fastest broadband available in the US maxes out at less than half and even a third of blu-ray's average bitrate. That isn't 'overkill' either on the blu-ray side. There are still films with moire/rainbow/macroblocks on the format even with such a high bitrate. That's why most streaming stuff is 720p (which is less than half of blu's bandwidth). Low bitrate 1080p might be fine a smaller sets to those with less discriminating eyes, but a good 1080p24 encoded blu-ray can look pretty darn amazing, better than your local 35mm cinema*

*4k, 6k, and 8k are scanning resolutions. They are not the resolution of film. 35mm film has on average of 3k-4k of details that can be scanned out. Studios do 8k scans for piece of mind and downsample to 4k. Any scan downsampled to 2k from 35mm will mostly retain all of the detail. 1080p is about 2k (1920 is about 2024) not 1k like some say, you go by horizontal. 2k digital projectors are usually 1920x1080 and are less compressed than blus. Nearly all hollywood films are scanned at 2k with effects at 4k before put back on film. Blus come right from the digital masters. The contact printing process and projected image of 35mm has less than 700 lines. So non-digital cinema is about 720p. I just typed all this because I'm tired of people who say that 35mm has a higher resolution. Technically yes from a scanning stand point, but not in the way you think. Blu-ray beats the cinema. Google it for more info.

@CoolBreeze221
talk to me in 10 years.

@CoolBreeze221
Or simply can't stream due to lack of availability for high speed internet. Obamas plan isn't looking likely for my relatives in the mountains at least. And satellite is pure evil.

@Klearwater Killer
So you're able to get full uncompressed HD streams?

@daytripper
Did i say that? No.
Anyone that thinks technology isnt going to advance past optical discs is a moron.

@Senor Whopper Agree EPIC FAIL by Netflix. Already cancelled my service with them, now I'm just waiting for them to go belly up next.

@xxMayDay31xx

15? I recall paying him exactly 2 and I sorta feel ripped off at that.

@xxMayDay31xx

Man he had like 3 minutes....he could have turned it into a few thousand had he tweeted ads....but his once 15k+ followers are now down to under 11k.....and he didn't do anything with it. Some people don't realize how to us social media...

@xxMayDay31xx

Its a shame he didn't manage to sell his account when he had a chance.

I wonder if he was ever approached by Netflix/Qwikster. I'd imagine them to pony up a fat sum iff they went through with the Qwikster thing.

@SmashZilla

Problem for me was not a different site, I canceled the DVDs because of the price hike.

@DJ Kenneth A ARGH More then...not enough coffee yet. Thoughts still incoherent...

@DJ Kenneth A

:"More THAN"

Coffee can't fix bad grammar :P

@Hunter2223 like I said ;)

@DJ Kenneth A
Netflix changes it's policies and some teenager changing his/her clothes because of that, hilarious.

@DJ Kenneth A Thinly disguised Katy Perry lyrics, at that.

@LordMandos That's what she said!

@DJ Kenneth A

DERP!

@GunnersDream78 couldn't help it. Lack of coffee is making me do things I normally wouldn't.

@kmcroc

i heard that they plan to merge on Dec 21. next year.........

@DoucheSmoke

By worthless content you mean films, correct?

@DoucheSmoke Relevant username.

@Drazzamatazz

this whole moving picture thing will never catch on.

@LENSconcept Did someone say Moving Pictures? I love Rush!

@SMTDante
Myself and the other 5 members here who got this joke salute you, sir.

@dvdjunkie32 how do idiots get to be CEO? Uhhhh didn't he START the company over a decade ago? If thats the case then its not like he was elected to that position then is it....

@ChaseHammerJ

Carlos Mencia never said anything best.

@ChaseHammerJ

I thought his name is Carlos MenSTEALia. So he probably did say it, but not best and certainly not first.

@Haizeus
I dont like Mencia, i was just using his phrase :P

@whylekat
Again dont like Mencia..lol. it was just suppose to be funny reality check to Netflix.

@EVERYONE ELSE
Sorry it was a bad joke/pun/reference

@ChaseHammerJ The important thing is that you recognized you did wrong