Netflix will begin streaming DreamWorks films starting in 2013. Lovely. See you in two years.
It is every cinephile's dream to instant play the complete Beverly Hills Chihuahua trilogy.
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
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I would say it probably has fewer movies, but it's selection is more mainstream. However it's model is quite different from netflix's (except if you have a paid for Prime account, with some titles).
I do have Prime account. Does it mean i get free streaming? I couldnt figure from reading.
If you've paid for the account (in other words, it's not a free Amazon Student, or Amazon Mom account), then some of the titles will be available for free streaming.
see this: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sa_menu_aiv_piv_t10?ie=UTF8&...
Re: Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
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Netflix often hid high demand movies from customers on the new releases page. They would showcase new release movies on their main webpage & in marketing, but if you actually signed in to your account & looked at the new releases section you would find those movies either hard to find or missing altogether. I would not find it surprising that they might tweak their algorithm to direct people to lower cost content.
Lower cost in what sense? I was under the impression that Netflix didn't pay per viewer, but rather, licensed the content to stream as much as they want for a certain time frame. Is that not correct? edited to add: Here we go. From the Q2 investor conference call -- "For streaming content, we buy like our industry and pay television and network TV buys and cable networks, which is you have to commit upfront, and you…
I am not sure if it's as clear cut as that.
"The disappearance of Sony’s movies resulted from a clause in the Starz agreement. According to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because contract terms are confidential, it includes an undisclosed cap, which has recently been exceeded, on the number of people who can watch Sony movies online."[1]
So perhaps Netflix could tweak their algo to avoid recommending movies that might have said caps. I have no proof they're doing this specifically though. Though maybe this cap was on total users rather than on number of views per title. I do know they would hide high demand new release DVDs in effort to reduce the demand on the movie, which in theory would allow them to purchase fewer copies.
[1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/0...
Re: Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do have Prime account. Does it mean i get free streaming? I couldnt figure from reading.
If you've paid for the account (in other words, it's not a free Amazon Student, or Amazon Mom account), then some of the titles will be available for free streaming. see this: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sa_menu_aiv_piv_t10?ie=UTF8&...
Thanks for the link. I've had prime account for over a year, and I am discovering there were free movies.