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Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
- icarus_drowning 15y agoWell, it certainly is nice to see that Netflix's promise of securing higher-quality content is at least partially coming to fruition. Also, it is nice to see a content creator finally start talking seriously about internet streaming versus traditional cable as a means of content delivery.
- swanson 15y agoGot excited for new content on Netflix Instant -- then read further and saw it wasn't taking effect until 2013...I am now less excited.
- mitjak 15y agoDreamWorks Animation, not DreamWorks. That's a much smaller subset of the DreamWorks catalogue. Link bait.
- felipemnoa 15y agoBut it could potentially open doors to the bigger catalog if things go well.
- viscanti 15y agoThere's a lot of things that could happen before there are any meaningful results from that. Even if it's initially a smash hit (however that might be defined), they'd want to see how it does over a longer time span. A year would be the minimum time before anyone else would be making decisions based on that. I also don't think it adds a lot of additional information that isn't already there. They already have all the Starz content, which they'll likely be losing. But content owners have a model they can see currently. Adding a few additional animated films won't likely change much, and it will be at least 2 years before any meaningful results are out. There's a much better chance that between now and 2 or 3 years down the road, that something else more significant takes place. Netflix, upon losing the Starz streaming rights, could be out of business. Individual studios could be doing streaming on their own, and finding success with that.
- antimora 15y agoI am still waiting when I can play Netflix on Linux.
- ZipCordManiac 15y agoNot the ideal solution, but you could try running VMWare and see how the playback is.
- bryanallen22 15y agoYou can use the netflix extension for chrome. Look in the chrome app store. Edit: According to rglullis, this is wrong. I have left it for context. Sorry - I had read something about it, but it appears to not be true.
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- rglullis 15y agoI'm sorry, but I will have to call bullshit on that one. I "installed" the app, which only took me to the website. I selected a movie and got a page showing their requirements page. It mentions "PC", Mac and Chrome OS. No love for linux, at least not right out of the box.
- DiabloD3 15y agoThe Linux Chrome plugin is still being beta tested. Netflix has mentioned that it might be available sometime next year. In the mean time, buy a Roku and plug it into one of your monitor's other outputs.
- burgerbrain 15y agoAmazon's instant movies play superbly on Linux.
- antimora 15y agoHow is the movie selection compared to Netflix?
- kloncks 15y agoNetflix will begin streaming DreamWorks films starting in 2013. Lovely. See you in two years.
- jonknee 15y ago2013 is about 15 months away. Not exactly around the corner, but not two years.
- jamesbkel 15y agoWell, it sounds like it starts sometime in 2013, not necessarily Jan 01. Also, it sounds from the article like Dreamworks will be slowly rolling out past titles, so it could be even longer.
- snorkel 15y agoIt is every cinephile's dream to instant play the complete Beverly Hills Chihuahua trilogy.
- stephenjudkins 15y agoWhile I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers. In the longer term, however, I fail to see how Netflix can avoid having its product turn into a commodity. Delivery of digital video to consumers will only continue to get cheaper and easier. Obviously Netflix has gotten amazing deals on bandwidth (see their recent spat with Comcast) but other the prices it pays will only continue to converge with the prices for commodity CDNs. The only major part of Netflix's business that's resistant to commoditization is having a huge base of subscribers that allows them to cut deals directly with studios like Dreamworks. Obviously Netflix is trying to position itself as a cheaper, better middleman between consumers and content producers than the combination of cable channels and cable companies. This could be very attractive to studios in the medium-term, but ultimately why not cut out the middleman? When (not if) quick, flexible, and easy online payment comes to the internet, what's stopping Dreamworks from simply charging and delivering the movie to consumers directly?
- InclinedPlane 15y agoIt will become a commodity. That's a problem for Netflix but less of a problem for us. Netflix could still survive by offering better service or lower margins or what-have-you (isn't internet search a commodity? how does google survive?)
- boredguy8 15y agoThe exception to this was their movie suggestion algorithm. But lately it seems to be pointing me to their cheapest-to-consume content, not the best content given my rating history. (I say this primarily because of the prevalence of old, old movies, of which I am pretty much never a fan.)
- Klinky 15y agoNetflix often hid high demand movies from customers on the new releases page. They would showcase new release movies on their main webpage & in marketing, but if you actually signed in to your account & looked at the new releases section you would find those movies either hard to find or missing altogether. I would not find it surprising that they might tweak their algorithm to direct people to lower cost content.
- dafarian 15y agoWow, they're still kicking!