Science News Daily || Netflix dumps Qwikster, keeps DVD service ...

Qwikster Netflix In a short blog post today, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced a total reversal of the recent plans that so mildly inconvenienced and irked us. Instead of spinning off the physical media side--DVDs, Blu-ray, and now video games--into a whole new website to be called Qwikster, Netflix will now keep all that stuff under the Netflix umbrella. In other words: please calm down, customers. Nothing is changing. Netflix's original plans called for the company to spin off its physical from its digital stores--now that the subscriptions are separate, why not make the stores separate? That called for a new site, to be called Qwikster, that housed all the physical media and was for all intents and purposes totally distinct from Netflix. But Netflix is now abandoning that plan, ditching all Qwikster-related projects and keeping physical media cuddled up with digital at Netflix.com. This is likely a result of the company's dramatic stock fluctuations rather than public outcry (the AP says custom

Netflix kills Qwikster

The leading online video streaming service has killed a product that should have never been born. read more

4 hours ago from TG Daily

Netflix Abandons Qwikster; DVDs Will Stay at Netflix

Qwikster Netflix In a short blog post today, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced a total reversal of the recent plans that so mildly inconvenienced and irked us. Instead of spinning off the ...

5 hours ago from Popular Science

Netflix Abandons Plans to Rename DVD Service 'Qwikster'

Reed Hastings, the CEO of the popular DVD-by-mail business, sent an email to customers offering an apology and an explanation for a recent rate hike and service transformation that had customers ...

7 hours ago from FOXNews

Source: http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/internet-news/cluster116965924/

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