Comment but their streaming service sucks.. (Score 1) 490
Have you seen how low bitrate and over compressed Netflix is? It is no DVD or Bluray, which both contain more bits for audio and video. Bluray video is the defacto standard with lossless audio and 25Mbps AVC which fucking owns Netflix's shitty 1-5Mbps blocky detail missing low res Streams.
The biggest problem on top of that preventing modern movies from getting on Netflix is movie studio monopolistic and sabotorial licensing and copyright restrictions. The movie studios refuse to license new films at affordable rates to Netflix, and generally they want a very high rate PER stream therefore they cannot do the current model of allowing you to download what you want at the current rates. With DVD and Bluray they can do this because they purchase so many copies and can rent them out as much as they want, but DVD and Bluray are copyright protected and this prevents Netflix from converting a "disc" copy to another format. Instead they have to license the movies through other much more restrictive terms where each view of a movie gets paid for and cannot be reused or viewed by multiple people like a DVD or Bluray.
Luckily there are many online services you can switch to but the cost is higher. Look at Vudu. Generally they want $4 to $10 per stream. Purchases in HDX format cost $20. So you got there a DVD/Bluray replacement but it costs you more. If Netflix tried to match these guys they would be charging similar rates.
Welcome to the world where movie studios intend to extract $100 a month for digital copies of their new releases, and only old releases are available at the bargin $8.99/mo rate!