I like that vudu’s stuff is entirely on their servers and you can be sure if something goes ‘poof’ they are going to be in a world of lawsuits. I did a double check and Netflix has improved the Christmas content. I still would like to be able to custome profile a device. As for the gay lesbo stuff its there and it can’t easily be blocked and one of the great things about these services should be customization to tastes and enhanced parental control. Also It’d be cool. I think neflix should have a cable tv channel offerring. It’d expand their brand and help feed their service. There is so much more they could do. They definently need to get into kiosks or some kind of instant rental system. They may not be hurting now but they risk becoming stagnent. The cable tv companies are coming and some of those who they currently purchase rights from will soon be competing. It is going to get tough in netflix land. Even I have found myself not using them as much since my cable options have improved considerably through xfinity. Maybe its just me but Netflix just isn’t exciting any more. Hulu plus would be good for me if they would just duplicate the service they have on the pc but we can thank the funny money way rights are sold for that not happenning. That is low on my list but I’d like to see a bit of reform on how media and intellectual property is treated legally. I’d like to see it become easier for companies like Netflix to acquire rights to media. I’d like to see the law changed so that Netflix could simply purchase 2 million copies of a movie and then be able to offer up to two million streams. Imagine if a car rental company had to license the rights to rent a certain type of vehicle? They have deals but you’d think it were crazy. A dirt lot in the middle of Alabama can buy and rent any vehicle they want why should media be different? We apply strange counterintuitive rules to things that benefits consumers not one bit.
Amazon didn’t get sued when they removed things from people’s kindles. If vudu loses the license vudu loses the license, there’s nothing they can do about it. Check the terms of use, I’m sure there’s something in there about how movies you bought are not guaranteed to be available forever.
Custom profiles per device makes sense. I don’t doubt there’s gay lesbo stuff on there, they’ve got a pretty wide selection which winds up including odd stuff. I just don’t encounter it.
I think a cable TV channel would be the worst thing for them. Way too much overhead, still more licensing headaches, staff, schedule, negotiating with the cable companies, all to jump into a medium that’s losing viewers... to Netflix. You don’t jump on sinking ships, and you way don’t jump on ships sinking because you torpedoed them.
Netflix hasn’t been exciting for years. That’s part of how you know they’re a good product. Microwaves aren’t exciting either, and we all have one.
Media is different than cars because cars are physical property and media is intellectual property. IP gets distributed, PP gets sold. They HAVE to be vastly different. If they weren’t then I could buy a CD and make millions of copies and sell them but so long as I kept the original all would be well. There’s a lot of problems in how we deal with IP, mostly thanks to Disney’s desire to own their Mouse forever, but if we ever started treating it like cars the entire entertainment industry would collapse.