In a change of conversation that would make Don Draper proud, Netflix has picked up its blogging pen and accentuated the positive, even as hundreds of titles provided by
Starz Play blinked away this week. The first bit of good news? Content that's coming instead of going includes several movies that scored trophies at last weekend's Academy Awards,including Best Picture winner
The Artist, and Best Documentary winner
Undefeated that will arrive "later this year, plus Best Animated Feature
Rango that goes live on the service March 31st. That extends to movies in theaters too, as last weekend's top two,
Act of Valor and
Good Deeds, are
pay-TV window exclusives for Netflix. The other positive note is that it achieved a
goal of offering closed captioning on 80 percent of the hours streamed by the end of last year, and notes 90 percent of streaming is now done on devices that have been updated to support optional captions. The bad news there is that some embedded TV and Blu-ray player software might not be able to be updated for captions, and progress on adding captions for that last twenty percent of content may be slower since it's content that isn't viewed as often. So, is the red envelope company doing enough to keep you hanging around, or are you going to blow through the last few eps of
Lillyhammer and pull the eject button?
Netflix Watch Instantly's life after Starz includes Academy Award winners, more captions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Here I thought that Netflix raised prices on their subscribers to acquire more streaming rights to programs, maybe they forgot to add in that doesn’t count for what we already have since they never went back to the table with Starz. I guess I made the right choice when I dropped Netflix before the price increase went into affect, because I would overly livid if I was paying more money and then lost 800+ streaming movies and shows. Working at DISH for a number of years I have seen content be acquired and lost by providers many times, it won’t spell the end of Netflix by any means, but it is a bit of speed bump in their plans. I found on DISH online I had just about as much content, more streaming movies then television shows, but I scan always find what I am looking to watch, and unlike Netflix, I still have my Starz streaming content available to me when I want.
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