{"id":8663,"date":"2012-02-21T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:26:51","slug":"weinstein-company-in-starz-out-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/entertainment\/weinstein-company-in-starz-out-for-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein Company In, Starz Out For Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, famous for keeping the U.S. postal system relevant with their red envelopes of rental DVDs, continues the struggle to provide content in digital streaming format. Tuesday&#8217;s multi-year deal with the Weinstein Company guarantees them streaming rights to such movies as <em><a title=\"The Artist - IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1655442\/\">The Artist<\/a><\/em>, a silent film nominated for 10 Academy Awards. The Weinstein releases will air via Netflix before their release on the leading pay television channels. Unfortunately, a three-year-long deal struck with the Starz network expires next week, cutting Netflix off from streaming many Walt Disney movies and other studios&#8217; content.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if Netflix can survive in the hostile environment they&#8217;re operating in. Currently, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings names HBO as their biggest competitor, but they face direct competition from Amazon&#8217;s and Walmart&#8217;s internet streaming services as well as from the traditional premium television providers.<\/p>\n<p>In my personal experience as a Netflix subscriber who opted for the streaming option since it was a brand new offering, I&#8217;ve felt the quality of their content deteriorating with time. In recent months, I&#8217;ve started questioning why we even pay the monthly fee for their service? I&#8217;ve noticed an increase in the number of documentaries and a sharp decrease in the number of top-tier recent movies. The overall experience reminds me of browsing the VHS tape and DVD bargain bin at the local Big Lots store. One of the stronger arguments for our family retaining Netflix streaming was the amount of kids&#8217; programming still found there. With Starz pulling out, I&#8217;m not even sure how that landscape will look. Maybe the deal with the Weinstein Company can reinvigorate a flagging interest in the Netflix streaming content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, famous for keeping the U.S. postal system relevant with their red envelopes of rental DVDs, continues the struggle to provide content in digital streaming format. Tuesday&#8217;s multi-year deal with the Weinstein Company guarantees them streaming rights to such movies as The Artist, a silent film nominated for 10 Academy Awards. The Weinstein releases will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47],"tags":[2216,2218,562,1242,230,2217,2215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8674,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions\/8674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}