As we've noted, instead of making their content easier to get, studios are making access via Netflix more cumbersome and difficult in the belief it will help sell more physical media. Time Warner recently convinced Netflix to extend the delay before the company can offer new release DVDs to 56 days, and stopped selling HBO discs directly at a discount. Now Time Warner has convinced Netflix to make it so users can't even add the coming new releases to their queue until 28 days after DVD release. While the belief is that they'll be driving more customers to buy physical DVDs, the reality is that they're driving users to piracy (then signing off on potentially-destructive laws like SOPA in the process).
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Time Warner Makes it Harder to Enjoy Their Product Via Netflix - Users Can't Add Coming Content to Queue
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:45am MST