[Las Vegas Dave]

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[highlander_UW]

I love my netflix account, and if they're going to put more content online that's even better. I probably watch about half my viewing streaming online.

This particular deal doesn't feed into my viewing directly because I don't watch much of the current crap being made, but if Netflix is focusing on streaming they are bound to put stuff I want as well.

[Las Vegas Dave]

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“Our continued goal is to expand the breadth and timeliness of films and TV shows available to stream on Netflix,” said Netflix official Ted Sarandos in a statement. “Historically, the rights to distribute these films are pre-sold to pay TV for as long as nine years after their theatrical release. Through our partnership with Relativity, these films will start to become available to our members just months after their DVD release.”

Blu-ray, We Hardly Knew Ye

So where does this leave Blu-ray? The high-def successor to DVD has its proponents certainly, some of whom see the format as a great way to bring 3D entertainment to the home. But the consumer demand for 3D TV remains questionable, and Blu-ray is increasingly looking like an anachronism in today’s online-oriented world. Content deals like today’s Netflix-Relativity pact highlight the growing importance of the Internet as an entertainment-delivery system. It also gives consumers yet another reason to pass on that bargain Blu-ray player at Costco.

The fact that many new Blu-ray players have built-in Internet streaming (with Netflix access) is a good indication of their true value. Soon, I suspect, they’ll be used more as set-top boxes to access online content rather than as disc players.

[Jmouse007]

Headline is totally misleading. Netflix will not kill Blu-ray, it is just another option to receiving content. As for me, I would rather own a high-def Blu-ray HARD copy of a film rather than a DVD or a downloaded compressed file of the movie saved to a hard drive. The last time I checked, hard drives CRASH and there goes all of your "saved" movie content. Also, the quality of video streaming via Net Flix et, al comes no where near the quality of a high-def Blu-ray disk.

"Nail in the coffin"... hardly

[bert]

I discovered Thepiratesbay.org and the bitstrem software utorrent.

Thepiratesbay.org has tons of tv shows, movies and music that are downloaded via utorrent.

My first try was for all of the episodes of The Pacific.

unlike netflix, it is with out cost

[LibLieSlayer]

BluRay will be here for a long, long time to come... downloads and streaming cannot compete in bandwidth (quality) for video or the audio codecs of HD and you do not own anything... just a view. Sorry... America will never buy into this microsatan idea... savvy.

LLS

[edge10]

“Get Him to the Greek,” “Grown Ups,” and “Robin Hood,”

If the first two are examples of films they are proud of, I feel sorry for them.

[moonhawk]

Just got my first BR player, and signed up for Netflix. Streaming is not an option for me because of my lousy “broadband” connection, and I wouldn’t want it to be unless they could equal the video and audio quality of Blu-ray.

That said, my very expensive player has issues with the scratches on nearly every disc I’ve rented, at least one of which has gone back unwatched. They’re sending another copy, but what a pain.

It’s too bad, because the service is outstanding.

The only thing that will bury Blu-ray, though, is when solid state storage becomes cheap enough to put content on flash card type devices that would eliminate moving parts and damage from careless handling. Now THAT would be cool. :-)

[CharlesWayneCT]

Blu-ray isn’t going anywhere. Eventually DVDs will be gone, and everything will be blu-ray, because it won’t be worth it to the companies to make two sets of every disk.

Already, a lot of special content is only available to blu-ray purchasers, it used to be that you could always get all the special features by buying a 2-disk special edition, but (for example) Alice in Wonderland required a blu-ray purchase to see most of the special features.

And since a good blu-ray player is hardly more expensive than last year’s good DVD player, soon everybody will be buying blu-ray players.

And since it really doesn’t cost any more for a company to press a blu-ray disk than a regular DVD, relative to the set-up and delivery and packaging costs, there’s no reason that within 5 years blu-ray disks would be cheaper than old DVDs simply due to volume.

I haven’t done blu-ray yet because I got lost in the “don’t buy old blu-ray players since they changed the format”. I know that at some point the players are all being sold with upgrade capability, but I don’t know which ones are or aren’t, and I’ve been afraid to buy old clearance models.

But I figure soon I’ll do it, even though I now have two regular DVD players that are home theatre systems, meaning they have my sound built in and so my upgrade cost is more than just a player.

Of course, my “home theatre” only cost me $180, since I bought a clearance item. So it’s not like I have a large investment like most people. The only thing I bought that costs real money are the TV sets, (and the monthly payment for my content, currently FIOS).

[Constitution Day]

Netflix has THE MOST annoying pop-up/pop-under ads ever. They are relentless.