They don't have rights to stream any decent movies, those are all still just discs. Exactly one time in the last three years when I've gone to search for a movie I wanted to watch was it available for streaming.
They don't have rights to stream any decent movies, those are all still just discs. Exactly one time in the last three years when I've gone to search for a movie I wanted to watch was it available for streaming.
That seems hyperbolic. Just browsing around (I decided to cap this at 5 minutes):
The Interview
Forrest Gump
Major League
Pirates of Carribean
Hot Fuzz
Armageddon
Kingpin
A League of Their Own
Inglorious Basterds
Scarface
Django Unchained
Legally Blonde
E.T.
Days of Thunder
The Princess Bride
Crocodile Dundee
Clear and Present Danger
V for Vendetta
Galaxy Quest
Running Man
Big Trouble in Little China
Talladega Nights
Kill Bill (1 and 2)
Star Trek Movies (including The Wrath of Kahn)
Tommy Boy
Team America World Police
Lilo & Stitch
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Wayne's World
Clerks
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
They don't have The Godfather.
Contrast this with the DVD/Blu Ray model: if it's available for sale you can rent it from them. There's not a mishmash of rights and availability dates.
...I've had Netflix for years, and I can knock out two movies a night.
Rapidly running out of quality content here. They don't acquire at the rate people consume. If you've been watching Netflix for a while, most of what's left to you is Asylum/Sci-Fi Original movies.
I think you consume movies at a much higher rate that the average person. The stats I can find estimate on average people watch between 1-3 movies per week.
At the moment I do have some Daredevil episodes queued up, but Netflix doesn't produce original content I watch at a rate worthy of keeping my subscription. Out of laziness or habit, I have my subscription year round, but the smarter thing would be to sub up for a month or two per year to binge watch Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Orange is the New Black.
The lack of same-as-audio-language subtitles should be an issue for some association of hearing impaired people to fight. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if legislation mandating access is required in some cases. Seems rather discriminatory to let people select audio language, but then require them to be able to hear just fine.
Of course, torrents almost never have this issue. (And have proper rewind/forward/skip/audio adjust[1] features.) At least half the time of the rare times I found something on Netflix, I just torrent it anyways as it's a superior experience.
1: Seriously, Netflix has been around for how long? And still no dynamic range compression for nighttime watching? Or "volume boost" for really quiet sources (or shitty playback systems)?