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It sounds like Qwik-E-Mart from the Simpsons bonded to Napster. Terrible name, and ten years out of date.
What Do You Think of the Qwikster Name?
I think John Gruber at Daring Fireball asked the right question: "Why not the obvious? Mailflix?" There are many variations on "Flix" that Netflix could have bought, and other names like Flickr (my favorite) and Netdisc (both from Gizmodo's list). Dave Zatz worries that it'll be confused with Qu...
They really can't make Prime monthly. If they did that, people would only buy it when they wanted to buy two or three things with Two Day Shipping and then cancel it at the end of the month. They lose money on the deal in terms of pure shipping costs as it is. A one-year commitment shows that you're the type of customer who will buy enough stuff from Amazon to make it worth their while (meaning they'll make the money they lose of practically giving away premium shipping on the volume of your purchases).
Now if they split the video service off from Prime and charged seven or eight bucks a month for THAT, then it would work. Maybe they could still include it as a freebie for Prime users too, or at least offer it at a discount to Prime users.
Amazon Adds More Streaming Titles & Buys TV App Developer
NewTeeVee reports that Amazon is getting serious about streaming, and in addition to recently adding 2,000 CBS titles, Amazon signed a deal that added another 1,000 NBC Universal titles. This brings the total to 9,000 streaming titles for Amazon, and 20,000 for Netflix (via SF Gate). We need to ...
Streaming's down here. I get the same error message that's shown in the picture.
Netflix Streaming is Down Tonight (Sunday) - Fixed
Update: NetflixHelps announced around 2am EST that the streaming issues have been fixed. Netflix streaming was unavailable for about 8 hours for some customers. Update: (12:36am EST): NetflixHelps and Netflix on Facebook confirm the outage: For those of you having difficulty streaming tonight, ...
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