Netflix is shuttering its original business

[Cmaier]

Netflix kills DVD-in-the-mail business, upgrades ad-supported plan from 720p - 9to5Mac

The newsiest part of this story may be that Netflix has continued to mail DVDs to customers as a subscription...

9to5mac.com

I was a customer of the DVD-by-mail thing for years, but not recently. Surprised it took them this long to shut it down.

 

[rdrr]

The days of yore, Blockbuster, Netflix DVD in the mail, Redbox. Actually saw a Redbox the other day, and thought to myself (how quaint).

 

[Citysnaps]

Netflix kills DVD-in-the-mail business, upgrades ad-supported plan from 720p - 9to5Mac

The newsiest part of this story may be that Netflix has continued to mail DVDs to customers as a subscription...

9to5mac.com

I was a customer of the DVD-by-mail thing for years, but not recently. Surprised it took them this long to shut it down.

The way I watched The Sopranos, back in the day.

 

[Hrafn]

Well, darn. Some of their offerings aren’t available to stream.

 

[Edd]

Ruh-roe, on the password crackdown. The only goddamn service where I actually use someone else’s account for a change.

 

[Renzatic]

The days of yore, Blockbuster, Netflix DVD in the mail, Redbox. Actually saw a Redbox the other day, and thought to myself (how quaint).

There's still one just down the street from me. I didn't think they were facing extinction yet.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I continued to get DVDs for longer than most people specifically because new releases were always available on DVD and it was spotty when they would be available on streaming, on which services, and some never went to streaming or it was many, many months later.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

If only the quality of movies kept up with the technology for viewing them.

 

[Eric]

If only the quality of movies kept up with the technology for viewing them.

I just don't get this, they seem to have endless money to pay for these productions and actors just to make really shitty movies. You would think they would allocate some of that towards decent scripts.

 

[Citysnaps]

I just don't get this, they seem to have endless money to pay for these productions and actors just to make really shitty movies. You would think they would allocate some of that towards decent scripts.

Perhaps that's the result of password "sharing" now being so pervasive, resulting in reduced revenue, and thus lower quality movies.

 

[Yoused]

I just don't get this, they seem to have endless money to pay for these productions and actors just to make really shitty movies. You would think they would allocate some of that towards decent scripts.

Flops are, at least, a write-off. But the production companies do have a (metaphorical) book of movie-making standards and formulas kind of like how reporters use the Chicago Manual of Style to guide their writing. They just keep framing concepts by the book and hoping for one out of hundreds to pay off. Kind of like throwing fecal matter at the wall.

In a decade or so, you will have your own personal moviebox. You will tell the AI what kind of story you want and it will build a plot, construct the script and render the movie, perhaps drawing from the internets, perhaps using locally stored data/tempates.

There is an old aphorism that says there are something like 36 possible plots. Some exact, small number, obfuscated by the wealth of details that can overlie them.