In a change of conversation that would make Don Draper proud, Netflix has picked up its blogging pen and accentuated the positive, even as hundreds of titles provided by
Starz Play blinked away this week. The first bit of good news? Content that's coming instead of going includes several movies that scored trophies at last weekend's Academy Awards,including Best Picture winner
The Artist, and Best Documentary winner
Undefeated that will arrive "later this year, plus Best Animated Feature
Rango that goes live on the service March 31st. That extends to movies in theaters too, as last weekend's top two,
Act of Valor and
Good Deeds, are
pay-TV window exclusives for Netflix. The other positive note is that it achieved a
goal of offering closed captioning on 80 percent of the hours streamed by the end of last year, and notes 90 percent of streaming is now done on devices that have been updated to support optional captions. The bad news there is that some embedded TV and Blu-ray player software might not be able to be updated for captions, and progress on adding captions for that last twenty percent of content may be slower since it's content that isn't viewed as often. So, is the red envelope company doing enough to keep you hanging around, or are you going to blow through the last few eps of
Lillyhammer and pull the eject button?
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Does it make much sense to raise your prices, telling your subscribers it is so you can add more streaming content, only to lose 800+ movies and shows from Starz? Something I would like to ask Netflix, but I am sure the answer would just raise more. Working at DISH I have seen this happen before in the television industry many times, but it seemed like Netflix was immune to everything until last year, but it has also made me happy that I quit using Netflix when they increased the price. But there is good news, they are giving their customers 3 academy award winning movies through the year, and expensive in theater pay per view movies, that will help. Make me very happy that I switched to Blockbuster @home, I still have all the Starz content, streaming on my computer and television and DVD by mail.
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