QF is still a thing ? 

The comments on the Stuff article are amusing.... people calling for CC to block it, and Sky to drag them into court etc - must be Sky employees :)

They will only be able to give us 3,4+ month old movies .

To be honest , just another service offering a product thats stuck in the past. Give the people current releases to stream.
Wait 3-6 months and its just encouraging piracy. We want to stream new movies now, in 3,4 months we arnt interested

Imagine if music or game industry tried the same thing .....
sorry you cant stream the latest songs or buy them on itunes .
You need to wait 3 months before we let you access that song ,album, game from your home.

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They will only be able to give us 3,4+ month old movies .

To be honest , just another service offering a product thats stuck in the past. Give the people current releases to stream.
Wait 3-6 months and its just encouraging piracy. We want to stream new movies now, in 3,4 months we arnt interested

Imagine if music or game industry tried the same thing .....
sorry you cant stream the latest songs or buy them on itunes .
You need to wait 3 months before we let you access that song ,album, game from your home.

 

When you put it like that, yes I agree. Wasn't someone looking at this a year or more ago? Essentially its a high price designed to allow you to stream it now, instead of going to the cinema, I think it was about $50. Cinema type price.  If that came to pass, you can stream it now, and pay a cinema price, but you would need to wait a few months to get the cheap price, aka NF iTunes etc

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QF is still a thing ? 

 

 

 

It said in the article that Stuff Pix had bought the NZ rights package off the NZ branch of Quikflix, so I assume QF have exited NZ.

Which makes Stuff Pix basically a replacement for Quikflix, which had a reputation as a highly desirable service, making it a hugely profitable operation (or not).

Google "Paddy Buckley" and you'll see he was GM of Quickflix NZ, which appears to have closed top office (not sure about service?).

If all they are doing is taking over Quickflix rights, then it'll be a poor service.

I checked out a number of services to compare my DVD queue on Fatso (after they announced they were closing).

With 81 movies in my Fatso queue...

• Fatso had 64 available before they closed
• Neon had 5
• Netflix had 11
• Quickflix had 0
• Alice had 27
• Aro had 61

Alice has launched a DVD postal service. Aro always had one, but it is not cheap...but they say they are working on it. Both Alice and Aro don't include new or recent releases in their schemes.

Cheers,

Phil

It's not much of a replacement for video stores. 600 films is pretty pathetic, and equates about 2 percent of the around 30,000 titles that I have read Aro Street Video has. I know several people with more films than that (legally) in their home collection.

Having said that, I might use it for casual viewing of the odd recent release film if:

• it's seamless to use - easy to get on the TV, without obnoxious DRM or other hoops, and doesn't require a computer to be hooked up to the telly etc (I don't watch movies on my laptop)
• I can purchase casually rather than an ongoing subscription
• films are available in a decent resolution/bitrate/quality, in terms of both picture and sound (at a bare minimum, at least 720p and 5.1)
• it has decent and recent films that I actually want to watch, and
• the pricing is reasonable.

Unless all of these things are true, I'm not interested.

Very difficult market to start up in and compete in I suspect. But good luck to them. 

"...odd recent release film..."

Yeah that's the bit I'm not expecting to see on their service.

Phil

I would pay $75+ a go to stream a currently in theater film at home on my TV.

It costs me more than that to go to the theater and hire babysitters etc.

I miss movies because of the planning it needs to go into organizing the events.