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If you rely on a mobile device to manage your
Netflix DVD queue, adding entries for titles that aren't available for instant streaming, then you should get ready to get mad. The company has, bizarrely, decided to nix that button on what it calls "streaming devices," which seems to be a blanket term for anything that isn't the Netflix website. So, soon when someone at dinner mentions some movie with an obscure title that you'll never remember you won't be able to add it from your phone's mobile app, nor your
Roku, nor your
Xbox 360.
Curious decisions like this aside,
The Hollywood Reporter recently ran a fun story describing what various Hollywood executives make of the company's chances. For its part the company plans to
keep on expanding and adding more content, like the
recent deal with ABC/Disney. TBS CEO Phil Kent made a thinly veiled threat to not license any content available on Netflix, while
HDNet's Mark Cuban (who recently thought
Netflix was set to implode) subscribes to the opposing camp's newsletter, saying Netflix is "absolutely a friend to producers and distributors -- they are found money that is monetizing library assets as DVD sales fall." What's your call?
Netflix removing 'Add to DVD Queue' button from streamers, execs debate the company's future originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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