Netflix To Add 1,500 Blu-ray Titles in 2008
Video Business reports that Netflix will be significantly increasing the selection of Blu-ray titles in 2008.
McCarthy also said today that Netflix will add as many as 1,500 Blu-ray titles to its existing 400 titles this year as customers ditch Toshiba’s discontinued HD DVD format and converge onto a Sony’s Blu-ray format. He said he didn’t know what effect more Blu-ray titles would have on earnings.“It seems apparent that content will cost us more,” McCarthy said. “Whether we raise prices will be entirely a function of churn, subscriber acquisition costs and gross margins.”
This HD/Blu Ray love affair is annoying. Folks are like the new hippies. Fuck you.
Posted by: Plus | February 29, 2008 at 05:12 AM
You're just jealous because you don't have one. Simple as that. Get with the times.
Posted by: MCWHAMMER | February 29, 2008 at 06:17 AM
Plus needs to chill out.
Unfortunately, NF will only have 1 copy of each title!
Posted by: eviltimes | February 29, 2008 at 12:40 PM
"Sony’s Blu-ray format" ?
Posted by: who cares | February 29, 2008 at 01:12 PM
I had *no* idea that Jenny McCarthy worked for Netflix. As Paris Hilton says, "That's hot!"
http://www.askmen.com/galleries/jenny-mccarthy/picture-1.html
Posted by: Edward R Murrow | February 29, 2008 at 02:36 PM
Blu-ray disks will cost more, but the subscribers who get them will have to actually watch them rather than immediately make a copy and send the original back, which is what a lot of people do with standard DVDs.
Posted by: Karl S | February 29, 2008 at 03:36 PM
The poor babies.
Posted by: Rich | February 29, 2008 at 07:12 PM
Any word on if NF may start to sell off their HD-DVD's ?
Posted by: David | March 01, 2008 at 04:07 PM
Sounds like Netflix might be considering a separate subscription plan for Blu-ray rental - i.e. different prices for different out at a time options, separate queue, etc. I can't visualize quite how it would work.
It does seem that Netflix has two kinds of subscribers - those who want as many Blu-ray rentals as they can get, and those who are perfectly happy either upconverting or just playing at standard definition.
I would also think Blu-ray renters would not turn over Blu-ray titles as fast, if for no other reason than the typical Blu-ray title has tons more extras - thus renters would hang on to them longer.
Posted by: CJ | March 02, 2008 at 12:06 AM
A premium plan for people who want Blu-ray in addition to regular DVDs makes sense to me. If I'm expected to pay higher rates for a service I'm not interested in using, I'm jumping ship.
Posted by: Will squared | March 03, 2008 at 03:04 PM
"A premium plan for people who want Blu-ray in addition to regular DVDs makes sense to me. If I'm expected to pay higher rates for a service I'm not interested in using, I'm jumping ship."
I guess you must use the Netfix Watch Now/Instantly/Movies, otherwise you would be enraged. Speaking of which, the only way that has been confirmed (at least I think it has been confirmed) of possibly getting Netflix InstantWatching to the TV is the (latest?) LG Combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player.
I guess a lot of PS2 owners must've jumped ship when they realized Sony was going to end up ramming part of the cost of Blu-Ray onto the backs of gamers.
Posted by: leonardodicrapio | March 03, 2008 at 03:45 PM