Netflix (DVD Delivery Discussion Only)
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I rented Juliet of the Spirits about a month or two ago. I can confirm that the DVD was the Criterion edition. Does that help?psufootball07 wrote:If Mishima is placed in the wrong DVD cover, and in fact is the Criterion release, can anyone confirm or deny whether the Juliet of the Spirits DVD is in fact the Criterion or some other release?
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I got this email today:
So now I know why they've been throttling me again lately.Netflix wrote:As a member of the Chavez vs. Netflix settlement class, you will receive a free upgrade to the next plan level for one month. Assuming your membership remains active for the remedy period, this benefit will automatically start with your next billing period and will appear in your Membership Terms and Details page.
No further action is necessary on your part.
NOTE: If your Netflix account is on hold, your upgrade will automatically apply for the next billing period after you remove your account hold.
Learn more about this settlement at: http://www.netflix.com/settlement
-The Netflix Team
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Is this really true? In my experience, when an OOP title was upgraded, if they got a reissued edition it would be integrated into their surviving stock of the old version, and you'd have know way of knowing which one you'd get. Whether or not they changed the cover art on the site was irrelevant.domino harvey wrote:Guys, if it's still getting shipped out, the odds are very good that you will be sent the most recent version of the film.
For the most part, this has caused me to stop Netflixing Criterion (and other) reissues, and just rent them from brick-and-mortars instead, so I haven't had much recent experience with this frustration -- but I can report that a friend rented Shoot the Piano Player from Netflix about a month ago and received the old Fox Lorber, not the Criterion.
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I didn't say it's infallible, but think about it for most cases: If the old disc is out of print and wasn't available on Netflix right before the Criterion was issued, why would you ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever assume you would be getting the old out of print edition that sells for $$$$ on second-hand sites? If the disc is of a film that was still available from Netflix before Criterion reissued it, the Criterion will get folded in and eventually replace the old disc because people lose discs, they get scratched, &c.
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Just saw this notice at the top of my queue:
IMPORTANT: Your DVD shipments might be delayed…
We're sorry to report that we've been experiencing issues with our shipping system, so some of you are not receiving DVDs in a timely manner and some of you have not received emails letting you know we got a DVD back from you.
We apologize and we'll be automatically issuing credits to all of you whose shipments have been delayed. Our goal is to ship DVDs as soon as possible and to provide a personalized email update to you if your DVD shipment was delayed.
We're sorry for any inconvenience we've caused you and thank you for your patience.
The Netflix Team
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Aha, I see your misconception now, Domino. When Netflix's inventory on OOP DVDs drops below a certain level, they'll take it out of circulation and mark it as "save" instead of "add" on their website. But if a new edition comes out, they'll add whatever was left of the old versions back into the inventory along with the new ones. So you can still get a crappy Fox Lorber Pierrot Le Fou, although I guess your chances are slimmer than with something that stayed in print closer to its Criterionization (like those awful Pioneer Cassavetes DVDs).
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Interesting. As I know little of Netflix's internal affairs, may I ask where and how you learned of such a OOP policy? I'm not saying what you state is not accurate, but I am curious.Perkins Cobb wrote:When Netflix's inventory on OOP DVDs drops below a certain level, they'll take it out of circulation and mark it as "save" instead of "add" on their website.
What is this "certain level" below which an OOP title is taken out of circulation? Even with only 15 or 25 copies of a particular film on hand, hundreds of subscribers each year would have access to it. I could imagine some OOP titles becoming valuable and a few unscrupulous subscribers purloining the DVD, claiming they never received it. But I wonder how often this actually occurs?
It seems to be in Netflix's best interest to keep a title listed as "available" for as long as possible. Sadly, once a title has gone out of print, it could be years before there's a reissue. The longer Netflix keeps an OOP title available to subscribers, the more they gain in terms of competitive advantage.
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Anyone else having Netflix problems right now? I saw on another message board that this thing is wide spread right now. They say theyll give credit for them not shipping out DVDs, but seriously this sucks, well at least I still have all the extras to go through on Mishima and Vampyr for the library.
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Yeah, I got an e-mail about it, what do they mean by credits though?psufootball07 wrote:Anyone else having Netflix problems right now? I saw on another message board that this thing is wide spread right now. They say they'll give credit for them not shipping out DVDs, but seriously this sucks, well at least I still have all the extras to go through on Mishima and Vampyr for the library.
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You can watch the most of the film of Salo on Youtube. That is if you so desire.
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