Following its failure to separate its DVD and streaming businesses with its loud and unpopular Qwikster rebranding effort, Netflix has taken subtler tactics to segregate its two types of customers: buying up the domain DVD.com.
In another assault on Netflix's library, Warner Bros. has announced that it will double the viewing window for new releases, meaning viewers will now have to wait 56 days for A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas and other Warner releases to show up at Netflix.
Warner Bros has announced that it will stop shipping all DVD and Blu-ray versions of the eight Harry Potter films on December 29, putting them back "in the vault" to increase scarcity — and the value of future, yet-to-be-made special editions.
Buying an UltraViolet title on disc also gives you access to a digital copy
Recent moves suggest the company has forgone customer satisfaction for its bottom line
Now online streaming and mailed DVDs are billed separately
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