They just sent me an email begging me to sign up again. I quit the streaming service because I ran out of interesting things to watch.<p>(Of course the email is a "no reply" - we want to talk at you, not hear from you - and gives no indication that there is any new worthwhile content.)
At the end of the day, it all boils down to content. We're going through an age of amazing television, especially with AMC and HBO. Netflix needs to either provide GREAT content that they create, or they have to get HBO and AMC on board (which is pretty difficult).
I'm sure sports broadcasting rights are really ratcheted down, but It would be cool if they broke into the live streaming side of things. I'm sure they have the capacity to handle a football game or hockey game.
Not surprising. Netflix lost their connection with their core business and stopped listening and responding to feedback. Ultimately, this will be what destroys them.<p>A few names come to mind: Polaroid, Kodak, RIM (ok, not quite yet but soon enough). Any others?
After finding yet one more set of episodes removed from streaming -- in addition to however many movies I'd previously queued up -- I'm about done with Netflix. I'd hung in there because I liked the service and their early attitude.<p>But now, even if this is not Netflix' fault, I think I'm done sending any of my money -- even via the Netflix indermediaries -- to content owners who jerk me around this way.<p>There was a fellow -- in France, IIRC -- who wrote a fairly well-worded if polemic argument for no longer enabling these content owner abusers through one's financial contributions.<p>While I've never been a content pirate (not that I don't endorse some of the associated goals and principles), I'm ready to retreat further into my books and works and do my 2 cents to help "big media" starve -- perhaps, hopefully, at least enough to get hungry enough to try harder to find a better distribution model. Or to help the real content producers (in all their various roles) do an end run around these self-serving, rapacious middlemen.