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I'm a DVD + Streaming customer. How will I be able to tell when a movie is released on NetFlix, but not Qwikster (e.g. Zombie Girl, etc), without having to compare the well-buried New Releases sections of two separate websites against each other? Is there going to be a growing disconnect between what becomes available on DVD and what becomes available on streaming?
For that matter, how is HackingNetflix.com going to deal with covering two separate websites, if at all?
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Issues Apology; Names DVD Division Qwikster; Will Offer Game Rentals
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted an apology on the Netflix blog about the way they communicated the price increase and why they're spinning off the DVD division as Qwikster ("A Netflix Company."). Hastings named Andy Rendich, who spent the past 12 years running the Netflix DVD service, as CEO of...
"And given the dynamic nature of our catalog that list can get long over time."
Preemptive damage control.
Netflix Explains Why They Removed the "Saved" Section of the Instant Queue
Brent from Netflix posted the thinking behind removing the "Saved" title section of the instant queue on the Netflix blog: We stopped showing titles that were at one point available for streaming. We did not delete those titles; we merely stopped showing them on the instant Queue page until we ...
I think I agree with "Mike".
Netflix has enough bad press about losing Starz already. Announcing the removal of the Saved Instant Queue would just draw further attention to the Starz fiasco, as the Saved IQ would be a huge spotlight on the quantifiable degradation of their streaming library.
NF must have figured the bad PR that quietly disappearing the Saved IQ far in advance would cause would be less than the bad PR of large chunks of queued streaming content suddenly falling out of everyone's queues into the purgatory of the Saved list, possibly never to return.
The lesser of two evils.
Netflix Removes "Saved" Titles from Instant Queue
Update: Reader Jason discovered that you can use Feedfliks to recover your "Saved" titles from youor instant queue, but it might not work for long. Netflix removed the "Saved" titles section from the Instant Queue (the DVD queue still has a "Saved" section). I was unable to get a response from N...
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