[Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix

Cbandmantracker cbandman1949 at surewest.net
Tue Sep 20 21:24:06 UTC 2011


I like the idea of having Netflix around, given the reason that I have found 
that with jaws 12, it is much easier to navigate around their site and 
knowing that I can rent some of their movies and turning them back at my own 
leasure.
I'm not much for listening to the movies on the computer and with some hope 
that there might be a chance with Netflix in the future selling some of the 
movies to the general public. As I love the  idea of collecting old time 
ScFI movies from the early 50's
even paying out $18.00 Per moth is well worth the cost, given the reason 
that it is much cheaper the having Cable TV or those small little Pizza pan 
dishes.
I do agree with elizerbeth with her idea as well and giving sjpecial thanks 
for the person who has come up with this desscussion site for the many of us 
who are visually impaired and blind.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Russillo" <plrussillo at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix


> Hi Elizabeth, I don't use Netflix, but this calls for resolutions at next 
> year's convention, and an action alert for NFB to bombard them (with shock 
> and awe!!!) with emails calling on them to keep accessibility in mind for 
> the blind.
>
> Peter
> ----- 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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