07-06-2012, 12:55 AM
I dunno. If you wanna give people entertainment, a TV show with 3 seasons is worth a heck of a lot more time-value than a single big-name movie and probably costs less to get the rights to.
They have every Star Trek series, for example. iTunes seems to have most of them but I'm looking at TOS and it's $2.99 per episode (lol).
If I want to watch a movie I can rent it through iTunes or Amazon. If I want to sit down and "watch something", Netflix is the way to go. Way more bang for the buck than trying to use the pay-per-view services for casual TV watching.
Or to put it another way, I don't think Netflix can make their money offering 2-8 hours of entertainment per month as people watch big name movies. The value is in getting them to watch an hour of TV every day, spreading it around on various shows and older movies. Incredibly good value for $8/month.
They have every Star Trek series, for example. iTunes seems to have most of them but I'm looking at TOS and it's $2.99 per episode (lol).
If I want to watch a movie I can rent it through iTunes or Amazon. If I want to sit down and "watch something", Netflix is the way to go. Way more bang for the buck than trying to use the pay-per-view services for casual TV watching.
Or to put it another way, I don't think Netflix can make their money offering 2-8 hours of entertainment per month as people watch big name movies. The value is in getting them to watch an hour of TV every day, spreading it around on various shows and older movies. Incredibly good value for $8/month.