Well, that's one thing I won't be wasting my money on

[oneiriad]

So, Netflix opened their new Danish website today, amidst much getting mentioned in the news media, where you can - if you are a Dane - go and rent movies/series without having to jump through 17 hoops to get it from the American site. Of course, I went and looked at the selection and honestly?

The movie selection seems very small and without any particular rhyme or reason. The same goes for the tv series selection - 18 series, mostly fairly new - oh, and the one thing I had been hoping for with something like Netflix, which is legal access to the new episodes? Yeah, how to put this? Dexter is one of the series available, but only the first four seasons. And so on.

So, not wasting my money, as it offers nothing new and nothing I can't get legally elsewhere. Quite the let-down...

ETA: Apparently, the selection is larger than I thought (albeit still no recent seasons) - except you can only see it if you register as a user. And even with a month's free no-strings-attached trial - no. If they are not willing to show me up front what I would be buying, they are not interested in my money.

Comments

[calvinahobbes]

Yeah, that's what I expected. Apparently there was a lot of hubbub over rights and so on. And either way I never expected to be able to watch episodes as they air. When I can get THAT, that's when I'll get out my credit card.

[oneiriad]

Some people on facebook are talking about the selection being larger than what the website shows, that there is a search box, but I suppose you have to be a registered user to be allowed to use that - which, again, why should I register, when they won't let me see what I would be buying beforehand? (Even if the first month is free - but no thanks, I think).

I think most of the hubbub was hopefuls, assuming that Netflix would actually be something new and interesting and worth paying for, and not just another service akin to what I can already log on to through my television supplier. I mean, considering the marketing campaign and media attention, you'd assume it was something new, right?

[lysanatt]

They really, really don't want to stop people from DL-ing illegally, do they? The industry is so far behind that they seem to be trailing along somewhere last millennium. Rights, my arse. They (film industry in general) might not have realised that the interwebs doesn't care about borders. Sigh...

What a disappointment, I had so hoped that it was worth it, but probably not from what you both say.

[oneiriad]

They really, really don't want to stop people from DL-ing illegally, do they?
Short answer - no. They keep talking about globalization, but the businesses never do seem to keep up. They're all still stuck in the "you-should-buy-what-we-want-to-sell-you" world of yesterday's media. To quote Sherlock: Dull!