[Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix

[Tone]

here's something that works great, the Apple TV.  check it it out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Rene" <emrene at earthlink.net>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:22 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix


> 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?
>
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