Comments on: Netflix and its “Qwikster” bombshell: What you need to know

By: Never mind about Qwikster: Netflix will keep renting DVDs | here's the thing

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:21:15 +0000

[…] splitting in two, with Netflix.com devoted to streaming videos while DVD rentals would head to a new site, called Qwikster, the home video giant has made an sudden about-face.In a blog post Monday morning, Netflix CEO Reed […]

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:13:00 +0000

In reply to Hunt.

Have you tried OnLive yet? It’s a site that lets you stream games to your PC or Mac, using a small downloadable client. Not perfect, but very interesting.

Here’s the site:
http://www.onlive.com/

And here’s my review from a year ago (keep in mind that a lot of things have changed about the service since then, but you get the general idea behind it):
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100702/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc3028

By: Nicholebrody

Nicholebrody — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:42:00 +0000

As long as the price will stay the same for the plan I have now, streaming and dvd by mail, I’ll keep it. If it goes up again, I’m done.

By: Hunt

Hunt — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:16:00 +0000

I believe games will eventually go streaming because of the lost/stolen disc problems as well. I don’t know why they haven’t done this already. I say put the top 200 to 300 titles including the brand new games the day of their release online for download and have xbox live and PSN charge you monthly like gamefly and other game providers. Let the systems monitor the games you have and number of games you’ve downloaded. When you’re done with one just delete it from your system and will open up a slot for another game to be downloaded. This would solve the lost/stolen game dilemma. Boom.

By: Week in review: Netflix to split in two; Facebook’s new “Timeline”; Kindle goes to the library | here's the thing

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:18:04 +0000

[…] library branches are now lending Kindle books, and find out how to jump-start a stalled iPhone.Netflix and its “Qwikster” bombshell: What you need to know Pretty soon, you’ll have to visit a new site called “Qwikster” to rent DVDs from […]

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:25:00 +0000

In reply to Andrew Stephen Huettner. Good point—again, it all depends on how you used Netflix.com in the past. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

By: Andrew Stephen Huettner

Andrew Stephen Huettner — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:51:00 +0000

Although it is fairly inconvenient to have your account and queues on different site, it will eventually benefit me if not many other people. I use instant watch all the time. I love it! best thing since vibrating chairs 😉 but on the other hand i don’t use the DVD by mail very often but don’t want to cancel it. Splitting the sites will allow me to put just the DVD portion on hold without putting my instant watch on hold.. That sounds like a good deal to me! So all in all, I’m for the changes..

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:06:00 +0000

In reply to Sheri. Well, the good news is that our DVD queue will be ported over to the Qwikster site—or at least, that's what Netflix is promising. Still, I agree; splitting the site in two sounds like it'll be more helpful for Netflix corporate that it will for us. Ugh.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:57:00 +0000

This is horrible. I didn’t mind the price increase (it’s still cheap, fast and awesome), but the splitting of DVDs and streaming into two sites will make my “entertainment management” much harder. I flip back and forth on an almost daily basis and keep an eye on when I can get a movie via streaming, then take it out of my DVD queue. It’s a lot of administration that is already a bit cumbersome with two different lists to flip between (I’ve always wished they’d integrate them), but with two separate, unintegrated sites, that’s going to become a major headache.

My biggest fear is that they won’t port my DVD queue over to Quikster for me. Any idea, Ben? Will I have to re-add the, um, 411 movies to my Quikster queue?

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:39:00 +0000

In reply to Cyndi. I'm curious to see what the prices are for gaming rentals—and how long it'll take them to actually send the game discs. I use Gamefly.com right now and the prices are OK, but the discs take anywhere from several days to a week to show up. With Netflix—err, Qwikflix—DVDs usually show up on my doorstep in one day.