Netflix Coming to UK

I moved from Lovefilm to Blockbuster purely because of the Universal problem. If Netflix works I will probably move to that.
 
That would be very sweet indeed :)

Perfection would be if they tied up with Virgin Media and we got Netflix on our TiVo boxes :)
 
Netflix WAS great, until they majorly screwed up and thought they were too big for their own boots.
CEO states that a 50% price increase us due.
Lose close to 1million members.
CEO apologizes, states that Netfliix streaming is gonna split off, new DVD service called Qwikster.
Even more people complain and quit both services.
CEO comes out again and apologizes and now states that Netflix will remain one entity with two services.

With this strong CEO in place, I'm not that confident where they are going!!
Still, $7-8 a month for blu-ray films every few days is still better than competition!
 
Begbie said:
Don't even know of anyone that still uses Blockbuster. Lovefilm busted them years ago.
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I'm asking because we do sole distribution for all Blockbuster stock in the UK at work, we're shipping out hundreds of thousands of units per week, when BF3 and MW3 are out, this will no doubt top a million units per week. This is DVD's, games, consoles...they are still very much in business and we supply more to them at the moment than we did 12 or even 24 months ago.

There is a lot of worry at work about redundancy and if we lost a client as big as Blockbuster because of them going under, it would have a scary impact.

We also do all UK distribution on THQ, Disney/WDSHE, Warner Brothers and a bunch of smaller IRH clients (Elevation, Anchor Bay, Contender, Momentum). I've noticed personally over the last few years that the volumes over our busy Q4 period are dropping and dropping.
 
Nexus said:
Netflix might be huge in the US, but they are far too late to the table in the UK, especially now that Amazon owns LoveFilm.
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The Lovefilm streaming catalogue is very poor, especially on iPad. Netflix have a good chance.
 
SixTwoSix said:
I'm asking because we do sole distribution for all Blockbuster stock in the UK at work, we're shipping out hundreds of thousands of units per week, when BF3 and MW3 are out, this will no doubt top a million units per week. This is DVD's, games, consoles...they are still very much in business and we supply more to them at the moment than we did 12 or even 24 months ago.

There is a lot of worry at work about redundancy and if we lost a client as big as Blockbuster because of them going under, it would have a scary impact.

We also do all UK distribution on THQ, Disney/WDSHE, Warner Brothers and a bunch of smaller IRH clients (Elevation, Anchor Bay, Contender, Momentum). I've noticed personally over the last few years that the volumes over our busy Q4 period are dropping and dropping.
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4 days after posting this, we found out we lost BB as a client at work :(
 
They obviously don't have the infrastructure in the UK to offer anything other than a streaming service.

The key thing is that the streaming service also needs to be available on consoles, set top boxes, apple tv etc.

It's taken long enough to get Lovefilm on most of those and with YouTube also about to launch a streaming service, I think the odds are against Netflix in our country.
 
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