SECTION 5

ahknight:

Netflix jacked their rates for Instant Watch + DVD delivery and gave a lame-ass excuse for it. It was calculated to be lame, however, because if they used the real reason for it prices might go even higher.

The Internet’s memory is short so let’s go back a week ago to when Netflix…

Netflix HAS GOT TO get more deeply into the independent production business. Having to squelch your numbers in order to satisfy Studios’ licensing restrictions (ridiculous anyway) is not a platform upon which one can scale. Netflix has got to be more independent of the Studios so that the Studios are not dictating Netflix’s policies. 

HOUSE OF CARDS is a good start, but it’s being treated as a “test” (at least publicly) and not as the first of trend at Netflix.

The more successful Netflix becomes, the more it freaks out the Studios. Netflix throwing blankets over its success in order to insure programming is the wrong direction (and will only work for so long).

It’s like a woman covering up her dynamic personality and stunning intellectual assets in order to “make her relationship work” because her boyfriend is intimidated by her.