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Netflix New Releases for January 22nd, 2013

Here's the full list of new Netflix DVD releases this week (detailed list): Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Fat Kid Rules the World, Nature Calls, Abel's Field, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Keep the Lights On, Nobody Walks, Officer Down, The Paperboy, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Pina, Searching for Sugar Man, The Imposter, The Men Who Built America, Tai Chi Zero, and Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis. 

Interesting streaming releases in the past week include XIII, Primer, The Switch, Death Race 3: Inferno, Gravity, Lars and the Real Girl, Dreams of a Life, and The Good Doctor.

Netflix New Releases for January 15th, 2013

Here's the full list of new Netflix DVD releases (detailed list):  To Rome with Love, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, The Possession, Pitch Perfect, 16-Love, 17 Girls, About Cherry, Counterpunch, Talhotblond (2012), Branded, Love Me, Detropia, The Other Dream Team, 5 Broken Cameras, Farewell, My Queen, UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar, and UFC: Ultimate Submissions 2. 

Interesting streaming releaeses in the past week include Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, For Greater Glory, October Baby, Stoked, I Married a Mobster, Bloomberg Game Changers: Twitter, Guns, Girls and Gambling, and Painted Skin: The Resurrection.

Netflix New Releases for January 8th, 2013

Here's the full list of new Netflix DVDs this week (detailed list): Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, The Bourne Legacy, Dredd, Ted, Frankenweenie, Ice Age: Continental Drift, That's What She Said, The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, The Inbetweeners Movie, Game Change, Touchback, Jack & Diane, Now Is Good, Compliance, Samsara, Stone of Destiny, Midsomer Murders: Dark Secrets, Midsomer Murders: Death in the Slow Lane, Midsomer Murders: Echoes of the Dead, Midsomer Murders: The Oblong Murders, Sleep Tight, and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Best Of Widget. 

Interesting streaming releases in the past week include Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Butter, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Man in the Iron Mask, The Usual Suspects, The Warriors, Wargames, The Untouchables, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sahara, The Machinist, Escape from Alcatraz, The Hunt for Red October, and Pumpkin

Netflix Suffering Another Streaming Outage on New Years Eve

Update: TechCrunch reports that the outage only impacted the DVD website:

“We are experiencing some technical difficulty with the Netflix DVD Web site, which as a result may not be available for all members. Our engineers are working to address this issue. Netflix streaming is not impacted.”

Readers (and Down Right Now) are reporting troubles with Netflix streaming. Netflix also suffered a major streaming disruption on Christmas Eve. 

Is Netflix streaming working for you? I am able to stream movies, and I'm located on the East Coast. 

Netflix New Releases for January 1st, 2013

Here's the rather short list of new DVD releases this week (detailed list): Looper, Cosmopolis, The Trouble with Bliss, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Little Birds. 

Interesting streaming releases this week include The West Wing, Masterpiece Mystery!: Wallander, The Lying Game, Nantucket Film Festival's Comedy Roundtable, lipe Esparza: They're Not Going to Laugh at You, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home.

Serious Netflix Streaming Outage on Christmas Eve

Update: Netflix on Facebook reports that Netflix streaming should be online again after a serious outage that lasted more than 12 hours. 

NewTeeVee reports that Amazon Prime was still available last night while Netflix Streaming was down, but we're on the East Coast and had trouble accessing Amazon Prime last night to view a movie. I agree with NewTeeVee that there are now alternatives to Amazon Web Services, and after an outage like this Netflix must at least be thinking about service providers that don't compete directly with them. 

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Netflix Streaming was down most of Christmas Eve for many customers, and the first official acknowledgment came from the NetflixHelps Twitter feed at 1pm PST. 

TechCrunch reports that the outage is due to problems with Amazon Web Services, as noted on Twitter by Netflix Cloud Architect Adrian Cockcroft. 

Did you experience a Netflix streaming outage on Christmas Eve? 

Netflix New Releases for December 25th, 2012

Here's the full list of new DVD releases this week (detailed list): The Dark Knight Rises, The Well-Digger's Daughter, The Words, ParaNorman, Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey, and Trouble with the Curve.

Interesting streaming releases in the past week include Fire with Fire, The Polar Express, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, Sleepwalk with Me, Skins (new seasons), and A Bag of Hammers.

Netflix New Releases for December 18th, 2012

Here's the full list of new Netflix DVD releases this week (detailed list): Total Recall, Arbitrage, Resident Evil: Retribution, 10 Years, Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Sleepwalk With Me, Stolen, The Good Doctor, Hermano, Killer Joe, Liberal Arts, Red Hook Summer, Premium Rush, Forrest Griffin: The Ultimate Fighter, and UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. 

Interesting streaming releases in the past week include Assassin's Bullet, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, 7 Below, The Reef 2: High Tide, Cleanflix, Moneyshot, FDR: American Badass, Thaandovan, Lost Girl, Love, The Queen of Versailles, and The Assault.

Netflix New Releases for December 11th, 2012

Here's teh full list of Netflix DVD releases this week (detailed list): Savages, The Portrait of a Lady, Mansome, Trade of Innocents, Chernobyl Diaries, Beloved, Collision Earth, A Christmas Story 2, The Watch, Why Stop Now, La Casa de la Risa, and Gayby. 

Interesting streaming releases in the past week include: Bones, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Craigslist Joe, The Courier, Farmageddon, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tinker Bell, The Tigger Movie, The Rescuers Down Under, Pocahontas, The Muppet Movie, James and the Giant Peach, Fox and the Hound, Dumbo, The Aristocats, Alice in Wonderland, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, and The Adventures of Tintin.

Netflix Signs Exclusive Deal with Disney for Theatrical Releases

Netflix announced a new and unique multi-year deal with Disney that will bring Disney theatrical releases exclusively to Netflix streaming, starting in 2016.

Pauline Fischer, Vice President, Content Acquisition for Netflix, had this to say about the deal:

I’m incredibly pleased and excited to tell you that Netflix will be bringing you exclusively, starting in 2016, theatrically released movies from The Walt Disney Company and its renowned studios, including Disney, Pixar and Marvel.  In the meantime, we’ll have an amazing selection of Disney movies including Disney classics, catalog movies, and popular non-theatrical movies for the whole family featuring beloved characters like Tinkerbell, Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, to name a few.

For us, this is a really big deal – for the first time in our largest market -  new Disney movies will be available when and where you want to watch them on Netflix rather than on a premium cable channel.  Our popular “Just for Kids” section, which is especially programmed for children under twelve, will now have such beloved Disney theatrical classics as “Dumbo,” “The Aristocats,” and “Pocahontas” and new favorites like “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and the “Air Bud/Buddies” franchise on top of the incredible range of Disney Channel, ABC Family and Disney XD shows already available to stream on Netflix.

Thanks to Dail, Tony, Snoopy, Christopher, Kyle, Noor, and everyone else for sending this in.