You would think that Netflix would issue a press release when they passed the 100,000 DVD mark, but they quietly updated the "Press Kit: About Netflix page with the new count:
Netflix, Inc. is the world's largest online movie rental service, offering 7.5 million subscribers access to 100,000 DVD titles plus a growing library of over 8,000 full-length movies and television episodes that are available for instant watching on their PCs.
Blockbuster lists 80,000 available DVD titles on the Blockbuster website, but only offer downloads for rental or purchase through the Movielink service they purchased last year. Blockbuster is expected to add movie downloads to Blockbuster.com, but details and timing have not been announced.
100,000 titles and they can't send me "Jesse James"?
Posted by: eviltimes | April 16, 2008 at 09:54 AM
Or Weird Science Season 1&2? Or the Giants Super Bowl Victory??
Posted by: Angry K | April 16, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Why can't ALL news movies that come out each week be converted to Watch now films? It can't be the technology. Surely it only takes a couple hours per disc to rip. Think of how that would solve their problem of the high demand new release movies.
Posted by: zenubio | April 16, 2008 at 01:46 PM
Zenubio: It's all due to the studios. In most cases they have contracts with other venues (HBO, Showtime, etc.) that stipulates that they get to be the first to show a movie.
Posted by: Im Not A Turnip | April 16, 2008 at 02:19 PM
eviltimes-funny you mention that-when I ordered Jesse James-it took them a extra day to ship it as well-we joked that they only have one copy for everyone.
Posted by: rambaldi47 | April 16, 2008 at 02:33 PM
I can stream video fine with Hulu, ABC, Southpark Studios, even ABC HD, but with WatchNow I get nothing but buffering. I wonder what they are doing different. I know the movies might be longer but I can still sit there with a 50 minute episode of Lost and watch it with out a 2 hour buffer window.
Posted by: Lord Jezo | April 16, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Does that 100,000 include all the Saved movies that are no longer in stock? I used to rarely see a Saved but now they seem to number about one-fourth of all titles.
Posted by: Twerpette | April 16, 2008 at 09:45 PM
"100,000 titles and they can't send me "Jesse James"?"
You're not missing anything. They've probably got more than 1 copy. It took me several weeks to get through that boring piece of crap (sat paused in my DVD player for a while).
Posted by: Jeff R. | April 17, 2008 at 12:50 PM
It doesn't say how many copies of those 100,000 DVDs they have. I know it's just a coincidence, but the top three choices in my queue this week have all had to come from all around the country. The vaunted one day delivery went to crap for me this week.
Posted by: jimofoz | April 17, 2008 at 01:00 PM
Yea Netflix is doing you a HUGE favor by not sending Jesse James.
Bad.......really, really, really bad.
Posted by: sdoug76 | April 17, 2008 at 04:30 PM
How about getting more season of Murphy Brown on DVD/Instant?
Posted by: Ehud | April 18, 2008 at 02:42 AM
Not only the saved movies, but now 50% of my Queue went from no wait to short, long, or very long wait over the last week ( a lot of deep catalog cheesy horror, to be sure). This happened to Blockbuster a few months back, which is when I canceled it.
Posted by: Brian | April 24, 2008 at 07:39 PM
Not only the saved movies, but now 50% of my Queue went from no wait to short, long, or very long wait over the last week ( a lot of deep catalog cheesy horror, to be sure). This happened to Blockbuster a few months back, which is when I canceled it.
Posted by: Brian | April 24, 2008 at 07:40 PM