Geek S**T The SIXTH

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Dear Derek,

I messed up. I owe you an explanation.

It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing.

For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn’t make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming. Most companies that are great at something ? like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores ? do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us). So we moved quickly into streaming, but I should have personally given you a full explanation of why we are splitting the services and thereby increasing prices. It wouldn?t have changed the price increase, but it would have been the right thing to do.

So here is what we are doing and why.

Many members love our DVD service, as I do, because nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD. DVD is a great option for those who want the huge and comprehensive selection of movies.

I also love our streaming service because it is integrated into my TV, and I can watch anytime I want. The benefits of our streaming service are really quite different from the benefits of DVD by mail. We need to focus on rapid improvement as streaming technology and the market evolves, without maintaining compatibility with our DVD by mail service.

So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are really becoming two different businesses, with very different cost structures, that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.

It?s hard to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to ?Qwikster?. We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name ?Netflix? for streaming.

Qwikster will be the same website and DVD service that everyone is used to. It is just a new name, and DVD members will go to qwikster.com to access their DVD queues and choose movies. One improvement we will make at launch is to add a video games upgrade option, similar to our upgrade option for Blu-ray, for those who want to rent Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 games. Members have been asking for video games for many years, but now that DVD by mail has its own team, we are finally getting it done. Other improvements will follow. A negative of the renaming and separation is that the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites will not be integrated.

There are no pricing changes (we?re done with that!). If you subscribe to both services you will have two entries on your credit card statement, one for Qwikster and one for Netflix. The total will be the same as your current charges. We will let you know in a few weeks when the Qwikster.com website is up and ready.

For me the Netflix red envelope has always been a source of joy. The new envelope is still that lovely red, but now it will have a Qwikster logo. I know that logo will grow on me over time, but still, it is hard. I imagine it will be similar for many of you.

I want to acknowledge and thank you for sticking with us, and to apologize again to those members, both current and former, who felt we treated them thoughtlessly.

Both the Qwikster and Netflix teams will work hard to regain your trust. We know it will not be overnight. Actions speak louder than words. But words help people to understand actions.

Respectfully yours,

-Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix

Anybody else get this?

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Estimated time of survival in the parts of the city where the infected be:

20 seconds.

In case you are wondering: Dead Island.

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[quote]orion wrote:
Estimated time of survival in the parts of the city where the infected be:

20 seconds.

In case you are wondering: Dead Island. [/quote]

Is it worth the money? That’s all I want to know.

There would have to be some major work on CGI scenery and “sandbox game play” for me to get this.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:
Estimated time of survival in the parts of the city where the infected be:

20 seconds.

In case you are wondering: Dead Island. [/quote]

Is it worth the money? That’s all I want to know.

There would have to be some major work on CGI scenery and “sandbox game play” for me to get this.[/quote]

Sandbox game play yes, CGI I dunno.

However, depending on where you hit them and with what makes a major difference when it comes to how the zombies look.

But, if you want to roam around, get a car. Roaming around on foot is bad, mmmkay?

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Dear Derek,

I messed up. I owe you an explanation.

It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing.

For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn’t make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming. Most companies that are great at something ? like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores ? do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us). So we moved quickly into streaming, but I should have personally given you a full explanation of why we are splitting the services and thereby increasing prices. It wouldn?t have changed the price increase, but it would have been the right thing to do.

So here is what we are doing and why.

Many members love our DVD service, as I do, because nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD. DVD is a great option for those who want the huge and comprehensive selection of movies.

I also love our streaming service because it is integrated into my TV, and I can watch anytime I want. The benefits of our streaming service are really quite different from the benefits of DVD by mail. We need to focus on rapid improvement as streaming technology and the market evolves, without maintaining compatibility with our DVD by mail service.

So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are really becoming two different businesses, with very different cost structures, that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.

It?s hard to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to ?Qwikster?. We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name ?Netflix? for streaming.

Qwikster will be the same website and DVD service that everyone is used to. It is just a new name, and DVD members will go to qwikster.com to access their DVD queues and choose movies. One improvement we will make at launch is to add a video games upgrade option, similar to our upgrade option for Blu-ray, for those who want to rent Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 games. Members have been asking for video games for many years, but now that DVD by mail has its own team, we are finally getting it done. Other improvements will follow. A negative of the renaming and separation is that the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites will not be integrated.

There are no pricing changes (we?re done with that!). If you subscribe to both services you will have two entries on your credit card statement, one for Qwikster and one for Netflix. The total will be the same as your current charges. We will let you know in a few weeks when the Qwikster.com website is up and ready.

For me the Netflix red envelope has always been a source of joy. The new envelope is still that lovely red, but now it will have a Qwikster logo. I know that logo will grow on me over time, but still, it is hard. I imagine it will be similar for many of you.

I want to acknowledge and thank you for sticking with us, and to apologize again to those members, both current and former, who felt we treated them thoughtlessly.

Both the Qwikster and Netflix teams will work hard to regain your trust. We know it will not be overnight. Actions speak louder than words. But words help people to understand actions.

Respectfully yours,

-Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix

Anybody else get this?[/quote]
Yep in my email this morning. Didn’t read it just deleted it

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Dear Derek,

I messed up. I owe you an explanation.

Respectfully yours,

-Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix

Anybody else get this?[/quote]

Yeah, I think everybody who is a member got one. I posted part of it up above. I just like that they are adding video games.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Dear Derek,

I messed up. I owe you an explanation.

Respectfully yours,

-Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix

Anybody else get this?[/quote]

Yeah, I think everybody who is a member got one. I posted part of it up above. I just like that they are adding video games.
[/quote]

Yep sorry fail on my part.

Yes video games will be a bonus.

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:

Jackman being interviewed about Real Steel he mentions Wolverine being shot soon. That man loves being Logan, can’t blame him as it is a moneymaker for all involved[/quote]

Is it the same director that was originally supposed to direct? He said jackman was too small and jackman was on a 6k cal diet, I hope he keeps that up and gets a lot bigger for the new one, thatd add so much to it. Even if he was as big as wolverine is in the wolveriene x men origins game

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Bujo wrote:
Yeah, I think everybody who is a member got one. I posted part of it up above. I just like that they are adding video games.
[/quote]
Yep sorry fail on my part.

Yes video games will be a bonus.[/quote]
Yep, got it today. No biggie, just that it’s going to be a minor hassle updating queues on two different sites (mail-away and Instant) and tracking two separate bill charges. #firstworldproblems. :wink:

Red Band Trailer for The Thing. Kinda-sorta spoiler (You see more of the creature in different states):

I have to say, the level of CGI-quality reminds me of the infected from I Am Legend and I’m not a fan.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:
Estimated time of survival in the parts of the city where the infected be:

20 seconds.

In case you are wondering: Dead Island. [/quote]

Is it worth the money? That’s all I want to know.

There would have to be some major work on CGI scenery and “sandbox game play” for me to get this.[/quote]

If you liked Fallout 3, then you will probably like this game. If you don’t like First Person Shooters then you probably won’t like this one.

Most of the island is rendered beautifully. There have been dozens of times where I just wander off to see what I can see, much like I did in Fallout 3.

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^Well…about CGI in movie promos, they do a shit load of clean up before the movie is released.

I honestly think they do that now to get fan reaction and then make changes. It will almost always look better in the final movie than in a promo…I hope.

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[quote]Blackaggar wrote:

[quote]kevinm1 wrote:

Jackman being interviewed about Real Steel he mentions Wolverine being shot soon. That man loves being Logan, can’t blame him as it is a moneymaker for all involved[/quote]

Is it the same director that was originally supposed to direct? He said jackman was too small and jackman was on a 6k cal diet, I hope he keeps that up and gets a lot bigger for the new one, thatd add so much to it. Even if he was as big as wolverine is in the wolveriene x men origins game[/quote]

No. The original director was Darren Aronofsky. He dropped out because the shoot would keep him away from his family for too long.

His replacement is James Mangold - he’s a good director but I have my doubts that Jackman will follow through on Aronofsky’s original plan to make Logan more muscular; the reason being that Jackman was a producer on Wolverine and he had enough pull to make Logan bigger then if he was so inclined.

Odds on that Jackman will be more or less the same size in the sequel.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:
Estimated time of survival in the parts of the city where the infected be:

20 seconds.

In case you are wondering: Dead Island. [/quote]

Is it worth the money? That’s all I want to know.

There would have to be some major work on CGI scenery and “sandbox game play” for me to get this.[/quote]

If you liked Fallout 3, then you will probably like this game. If you don’t like First Person Shooters then you probably won’t like this one.

Most of the island is rendered beautifully. There have been dozens of times where I just wander off to see what I can see, much like I did in Fallout 3.
[/quote]

20 seconds.

They see you, long before you see them.

They charge faster than you can run.

You are dead.

I need a car.

And look into the multi player angle.

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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix[/quote]

lol, i simply love the oatmeal, btw gonna start shorting on netflix, those papers are gonna drop baby.

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Just finished reading the last issue of Y the last man, I was so dissapointed with it, they should of sped up a lot of the stupid parts earlier they didnt need to have instead of instantly changing and progressing the character SO MUCH in the last 2 issues. I didn’t think it would have the happiest ending but man I thought that sucked

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Diablo III beta is out.

That means that any social life that i had it’s terminally over

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So I just played the new ace combat demo, damn I’m disappointed. Not much of a fan of the new dog fight mode which seems like its just a quick time event on speed and the controls all together seem to blow ass. I know they wanted it to be more intense but I think they went overboard. Probably pick it up for 20 bucks next year used.

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First “level” of Gears 3 completed last night in Co-Op. So far so good. I forgot how much fun it is to use a chainsaw on someone.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
First “level” of Gears 3 completed last night in Co-Op. So far so good. I forgot how much fun it is to use a chainsaw on someone.[/quote]

its fun but everytime i use a chainsaw on someone i have to go to jail for a few years