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Technology Stocks : Netflix (NFLX) and the Streaming Wars -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (289)	4/24/2010 9:46:40 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2280

Aside from reporting their first quarter results, I could not find anything that would have accounted for the pop. Perhaps a bit of this...... Analyst: Consoles to add millions of Netflix users .....and the realization that their distribution model has won the game (at least for now): "The Model Has Changed" aka Creative Destruction: Netflix (+100%) vs. Blockbuster (-60%) Mark J. Perry CARPE DIEM Friday, April 23, 2010 SACRAMENTO BEE -- First, people decided they didn't want to drive to the movie theater. These days they aren't too keen on driving to the video store, either. In a sign of the times, Netflix saw its stock price top $100 a share Thursday after posting blowout earnings – the same week that another Blockbuster outlet closed, this one on 29th and K streets in Sacramento. Blockbuster and Hollywood Video are closing local outlets as nationally, both companies feel the heat from game changers like Netflix and Redbox, which rents movies for $1 a night out of vending machines in supermarkets. Brick and mortar video stores are under pressure from the online world, just like record stores and booksellers before them. We want to rent DVDs quickly by mail or pick them up at the supermarket. And that's if we bother handling a physical disc at all. Increasingly, we just stream movies on laptops and smart phones or download them right to our PlayStations or Xboxes, so we can watch them on our flat-panel TVs. "The model has changed," said Maithu Bai, owner of Awesome Video, an independent video rental store on Freeport Boulevard. "It's not just here; it's across the nation. In these times, people want something new." MP: The chart above shows that since last September, Netflix stock has more than doubled while Blockbuster's stock has declined by more than 50%. Posted @ 10:47 PM mjperry.blogspot.com