This is a chart of where the top 100 highest grossing films from 2011 were available to stream.
Shit Netflix, get it together.
I recently abandoned my Roku box for Apple TV and I realized that this chart shows me exactly why: there is very little I want to watch on Netflix streaming anymore. I’ll watch an old 30 Rock episode every now and then and have been catching up on Downton Abby’s first season, but beyond that I’m not getting much.
I know it’s not Netflix’s fault per se, but it’s certainly not my fault for having no use for the half-assed content they’ve got to offer.
Innnnnterrrrrresting.
This seems about right. I’m not a huge movie-watcher anymore, but have seen a good chunk of the old “classics” in my time. So when I wanna watch something nowadays, it usually falls into two categories: Something I love and already own on DVD/Blu Ray, or something that came out in the last year which I missed while in theaters. For the former, duh, and for the latter, I drop $5 to stream it on Xbox or direct TV On-Demand, which seems to get just about everything worth watching as soon as it’s available on DVD. If some months I spend $10 on this, but most months $5 and many months $0, this seems like a better deal than $8 a month for access to stuff I don’t really wanna watch.
