Netflix May Delay New Releases for 30 Days
Posted by Craig on November 16, 2009 at 2:30 am
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The popular movie rental service Netflix has been so successful that Hollywood may be taking a big axe on it to chop it down. Users pay for a monthly subscription and have the ability to rent an unlimited amount of movies without late fees. They choose from the enormous online library of movies and then receive them in the mail, and can mail them back to Netflix for free with express shipping. I have been a Netflix convert and love the system. The vast library allows me to see documentaries and independent movies that I never would have seen before. Netflix has been a huge reason to the demise of Blockbuster and Hollywood is feeling the affect.
Users aren’t buying DVD’s the same way they did before the service because they can just get them on Netflix, watch, and return to get the new latest movie. Well those days may be coming to an end. Hollywood execs have been in talks with Netflix to lower the price of the movies to the service if they will wait 30 days
before releasing brand new titles. This would try to then push fans to spend money they don’t need to spend on expensive DVD’s. This ultimately would cut costs by a lot for Netflix, but it also has the potential to lose a lot of customers.
This is another attempt for Hollywood to grease their way to make more money. And ultimately I don’t think it will work. The newest releases are in limited supply on Netflix and sometimes difficult to get. I have waited 30 days before trying to get a new release in the past, although Netflix has been better lately at getting movies out. I wouldn’t cancel my subscription, I also use the movie rental service to get a lot of movies I have not seen, not the big blockbusters I had already seen. A lot of users share my approach, and also with the online streaming abilities, they will not lose many users. DVD’s still are expensive and I have saved a lot of money from switching to Netflix opposed to buying DVD’s or renting from Blockbuster.
I believe Netflix will do this and as a company should because it will save them a lot of money. Hopefully the company can translate the savings and put a lot of it back into the company to help out the users.
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