[Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix

[Elizabeth Rene]

Has anyone noticed how increasingly inaccessible the Netflix Watch Instantly 
Website has become?  Has anyone noticed how it's become even more 
inaccessible since Netflix announced its split fee system and the Great 
Divorce between Streaming and DVD's?  (Or was it child abandonment? 
Qwixter, the company now to be responsible for DVD's, seems soon to become 
the purveyor of orphan technology.  Witness the fact that Netflix is 
offering DVD subscribers the choice to get video games by DVD.  Didn't DVD 
games go obsolete in the early 90's?)

I'm ranting about this because I called Netflix a couple of weeks ago to ask 
why the Watch Instantly pages had become so hard to read with JAWS.  This 
had always been so easy.  The rep told me that the images on the screen were 
constantly moving, in order that more choices might be displayed, and that I 
could solve my access problem by using the DVD pages to find movies that 
offered streaming as a viewing option.

Shame on him!  Netflix had already begun to implement its business 
restructuring plan.

Does anyone else out there care about getting movies online on their TV's or 
computers?

I've loved Netflix because I can sit right next to my computer screen and 
look, up close, at anything I think I truly must see.  And I've hoped that 
Netflix might someday incorporate DVS into its DVD's and streaming 
technology.

Fat chance now.

Guess I'll just have to read more and watch less.

Elizabeth



Did you, like me, hear about all of this on NPR or some other news service 
before that letter came in the e-mail from Netflix's CEO?