Netflix watch instantly getting worse and worse

[Roose]

all i watch is tv shows and documentaries. movie selection is poop.

[Deftone007]

http://www.streamingsoon.com/ Is a great source for new additions as well as items that will be leaving Netflix soon.

Almost everything on that list is complete crap. I have netflix I only keep streaming cause my kids use it.

[whyusocrazy]

Its a cheap service wtf you expect?

If you watch more then 4hours you get your money worth, whats with all the complaints?

[Pert]

They still carry enough shows/movies that I enjoy, but the new(ish) XBox interface is just so atrocious, I don't know what they were thinking.

[bergmann620]

Netflix is pretty well fucked at this point. If they ask us to pay another dollar a month, 32 million people will cancel. If they don't charge another $20 a month, they'll never be able to secure rights to any decent properties.

Turns out businesses get pissed when you make more off of them than they make off of them.

Bottom line, we need to support the small guys and the content creators and tell the distributors to go fuck themselves.

[SqueektheWeek]

What Starz offered was only 2% of their watched content in the last year, down from 8% the previous year.

They are moving towards offering exclusive content like the fact that they are making new episodes of arrested development.

Hulu is going the same way with new content but they are starting from scratch with new shows in production.

[Silhouette of Seraphim]

Netflix is great for older shows. Every episode of every series of Star Trek, all of Battlestar, all of Stargate. If there's older series that you want to watch but never did, Netflix is great and can provide hours and hours of TV

That's exactly what I use it for. Wish they'd add Boston Legal to the Instant Play, been waiting a long time for that.

I did however see probably the single most awful movie ever made on Netflix. It was impressive. Even worse than a Uwe Boll flick.

[Porcell]

I guess my point is that I could browse through Netflix and probably find 1000 hours worth of stuff that I'd be interested in watching. A lot of people are saying "It sucks" because you can't find a specific program or a specific movie you want to watch?

As soon as I realized that I don't care about watching live TV or the absolute newest movies and that Entertainment was Entertainment, I was so much happier.

Just look at Best of Netflix Steaming list and some of the great stuff on there. Casino, The Big Labowski, Apollo 13, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Machinist, Memento, Pulp Fiction, Boondock Saints, Ironman 2, Reservior Dogs, True Grit, Punisher, Goldeneye, Ronin, Dirty Hairy.

And on and on and on.

And that's just the movies. Currently 58 of IMDB's top 250 movies are available for steaming.
Then all of the seasons of all of the shows that are available.

You MUST be able to find SOMETHING you want to watch on Netflix. It's not for "I really feel like watching Steel Magnolias tonight. Is it on Netflix. No. WTF is this shit, Netflix sucks balls!!!!" No.

[Meleti]

I just mooch off my sister's Netflix so I dont spend much time worrying about how much value my (non-existent) dollar is getting.

But it seems to me that Netflix is much better for television shows than movies. In the last six months-ish I've watched Top Gear, Stargate SG-1, Law & Order, Firefly, Bones, and probably a few other shows I can't remember. There are also some original shows popping up, like Lillyhammer.

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And that's just the movies. Currently 58 of IMDB's top 250 movies are available for steaming.

A very high percentage of these are pre-1970. Most of them, I'd guess.

There are almost no good movies from the last ten years on Netflix, and very few from earlier decades until you start hitting the oldies.