Netflix kills Qwikster

Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by dpark on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:55AM (#3093754)

The solution to that seems (to me) to be to charge, e.g., $50/month flat, and pay the content owners based on usage. So if you don't watch HGTV, they don't get your money. This would allow access to all the programming without requiring that you pay for what you don't use.

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by derekprior on Monday October 10, 2011 @10:56AM (#3094017)

The dirty little secret is that most of these channels are very cheap. The only expensive ones are ESPN and other sports programming. People who dont watch sports subsidize those that do.

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by ja27 on Monday October 10, 2011 @12:18PM (#3094431)

We've been without cable TV for years. Any time I talk to people about cutting their cable TV the only objection is live sports.

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by jmathes on Monday October 10, 2011 @01:20PM (#3094779)

I went off cable a year ago. The only thing I miss is ads for upcoming movies. Weird, right? Everything else I want I can get online, but I had come to depend on ads to tell me when a good movie was coming.

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by chadgeidel on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:46PM (#3095750)

There are several sites to (text) preview movies, here are my favorites: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/ (action) http://twitchfilm.com/ (thriller/horror/asian) http://io9.com/ (science fiction)

For watching the trailers I prefer Apple's site: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by pilsetnieks on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:06PM (#3095561)

http://apple.com/trailers/

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by BrandonM on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:44PM (#3095740)

My girlfriend always seems to know the plot of every movie. For a while I was wondering when she was finding time to sneak off to the theater, and why she was doing it without me. Her secret was just that she watched just about every movie trailer at apple.com.

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by aidenn0 on Monday October 10, 2011 @01:22PM (#3094790)

It's interesting to see the differences between major sports. It's trivial to replace your cable TV with online viewing for baseball, but impossible for american football.

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by brianbreslin on Monday October 10, 2011 @11:09AM (#3094073)

@derekprior is correct, ESPN runs like $2.85/month vs USA Network which is like $.60/month. (this is what comcast pays them to broadcast it to you).

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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by ams6110 on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:59PM (#3096062)

I'd gladly pay multiples of that price for the ESPNs, if I could buy them a-la-carte.

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