{"id":807,"date":"2011-07-23T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2011-07-23T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T13:30:53","slug":"netflix-or-how-not-to-change-your-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/23\/netflix-or-how-not-to-change-your-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix, or, “How not to change your business model.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

TechCrunch published a piece <\/a>yesterday about the backlash to Netflix’s recent pricing changes. \u00a0This chart really brought it home for me.<\/p>\n

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With that single act, Netfix’s management brought the public’s\u00a0perception\u00a0of their company from rating higher than the next two competitors combined <\/em>down to parity with the lowest sludge filled sub-basement level occupied by DirecTV. \u00a0DirecTV was formally owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation; <cough> a model of management\u00a0efficiency\u00a0and ethics if ever there was one <cough>.<\/p>\n

Personally, Netflix is hanging by a thread in our household. \u00a0Their support for Windows Media Center, tenuous as it may be, is enough for me to keep the service for now. \u00a0If they should ever drop support for MCE I would drop Netflix quicker than you can say ‘cracked DVD’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TechCrunch published a piece yesterday about the backlash to Netflix’s recent pricing changes. \u00a0This chart really brought it home for me. With that single act, Netfix’s management brought the public’s\u00a0perception\u00a0of their company from rating higher than the next two competitors combined down to parity with the lowest sludge filled sub-basement level occupied by DirecTV. \u00a0DirecTV … Continue reading Netflix, or, “How not to change your business model.”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,22],"tags":[87,83,85],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-media","category-it-seems-to-me","category-windows-media-center","tag-mce","tag-netflix","tag-windows-media-center-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t