by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:43 am
nessman wrote:Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Man, I'd like to catch these movies, but Netflix is throttling me down to like one movie a month at this point. .
Why the limit all of a sudden? Demand outstripping supply?
What I read indicates that Netflix "loses money" if you rent more than x number of movies in a month. Not sure what the value of x is. Definitely 30... but we were renting far less than that. 15 a month, maybe?
Netflix still wants to advertise unlimited rentals. Which is horseshit. They pretend to not get your movies to slow you down. The last thing that occurs to them is to be honest about it, of course.
Anyway, I doubt they'll be around in five years. Blockbuster has the ability to not throttle downloads. I predict that they will ape Netflix's business model minus the annoyances and then crush them and then make their own subscription service 100x worse than Netflix's.
[quote="nessman"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Man, I'd like to catch these movies, but Netflix is throttling me down to like one movie a month at this point. .[/quote]
Why the limit all of a sudden? Demand outstripping supply?[/quote]
What I read indicates that Netflix "loses money" if you rent more than x number of movies in a month. Not sure what the value of x is. Definitely 30... but we were renting far less than that. 15 a month, maybe?
Netflix still wants to advertise unlimited rentals. Which is horseshit. They pretend to not get your movies to slow you down. The last thing that occurs to them is to be honest about it, of course.
Anyway, I doubt they'll be around in five years. Blockbuster has the ability to not throttle downloads. I predict that they will ape Netflix's business model minus the annoyances and then crush them and then make their own subscription service 100x worse than Netflix's.