They have to increase their library size and have new movies to be competitive..

I'm personally all for it.

For the people saying they are using their wii... you are not getting HD. Netflix through my 360 or PS3 looks stunning for what it is(believe it's 1080I).

What I'm curious about is blu-ray, and if they are going to quit sending those out... I love my 1080P movies..

 

How about people that like the special features and such? You don't get that stuff when you stream, and sometimes the special features are more interesting than the movie itself.

 

Some of the discs they send out don't have the special features. I just got Despicable Me for the kids and it says on the start up with a message that it is a rental disc and the special features weren't available.

 

I don't think it matters on which game console you have. It mostly depends on if the movie is offered in HD by netflix and how good your internet speed and TV are. There is only a handful of movies on netflix that actually stream in HD.

 

I don't own a wii, an X-Box, a PS3 or a Blu-Ray player, I have no plans to ever own any of them so Netflix can kiss my butt. If they do decide to make this change I'm moving over to Blockbuster...

 

Wii does not output HD so it doesn't matter if you have the fastest Internet in the country.

 

Any streaming source - any cable, satellite or internet content provider - ALL use lossy compression to preserve precious bandwidth. (An uncompressed 1080/24p BD bit transfer rate is a sustained 54Mb/sec- so do the math, lol).

(Dirty little secret - the actual frame rate for a progressive-scanned BD video stream is 24 fps, and is 2D only - any 3D transfers will use 50 fields/sec interlaced. Sneaky bastiges )

As such - none of them will ever truly compare to a native non-compressed source such as Blue-Ray. This also includes the audio channels.

(An uncompressed 1080p signal's worst-case digital bit-rate requirement is 1.486Gb/sec).

This will only get worse with the looming advent of 4K and other future variants.

Luckily the vast majority of the unwashed masses will not notice as most of them never set up their displays, or their audio, properly to begin with.

And for more than a few, the convenience trumps the difference in quality.

There will however, always be purists....



MGD

 

I have been a member of netflix for the last 3 years and have loved it. I havent steped foot in a movie rental store since and it has been wonderful. I am one of those that lives just outside of the high speed internet thing and streaming movies is just not an option. I will hate it but I will be forced to cancel my netflix membership if they get rid of the dvd's.