EzyFlix shuts down streaming service
Months after the arrival of big players, an earlier streaming service ends its run after 2 years.
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Streaming TV and movie service EzyFlix has been discontinued, as the streaming war heats up in Australia.
On its website a notice says, “Thank you for having been a part of EzyFlix. Access Digital Entertainment has decided to end the service offered on this site. If you have rented or purchased any movies or TV shows, these movies are no longer available on EzyFlix.”
EzyFlix launched in May 2013 with 2000 titles, but has more recently had to compete with the likes of Netflix, Stan, Presto and Quickflix.
In June last year founder Craig White told Gizmodo, EzyFlix.tv was the 21st Century video store for tech-savvy millennials.
“EzyFlix.tv is not a subscription video-on-demand service and has no monthly fees or lock-in contracts. We allow customers to buy the films and TV shows they love from $2.99, or casually rent new release movies for $5.99 without any monthly obligations or subscription.”
The Australian Financial Review says it contacted EzyFlix for comment but did not get a reply before publication.
11 Responses
I didn’t even know Ezyflix existed. I’m glad that I never bought movies from them though. I see a lot of people think a physical copy is better than digital. I would say yes and no, yes because you do own it and you can play it whenever you want but no as well because eventually the player or disk gets ruined (scratches, old age, etc) and players become obsolete and are replaced by newer formats (VHS replaced by DVD, eventually will be replaced by Blu Ray, who knows what will replace that).
Where as a digital copy is (in most cases, not in Ezyflix’s case apparently) stored in a “cloud” in a personal account that you have access to for as long as you want (or as long as the company doesn’t go bankrupt). Considering how popular Apple and Google are, it’s a safe bet buying from iTunes/Google Play because I just can’t really see them going broke in the next 20 years or so. Have…
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Yep – another vote for physical media from me, for this exact reason.
Until recently I believed the hype that, with streaming services, you can view any title at any time. And then I found out the truth.
With most streaming services, you only have access to the TV show or movie for as long as the streaming service owns the rights to that show.
Netflix, for eg, only buys the rights to a show like Supernatural for a limited number of years (the time period varies according to what they’re prepared to pay). Once this period expires, Supernatural will be removed from their catalogue and you will no longer be able to view it on Netflix. Of course, a different streaming service would probably pick Supernatural up and start showing it, but then you’d have to subscribe to the 2nd streaming service if you wanted to view Supernatural again.
If a movie or TV show is one I’d like to watch again down the track, I try to buy it in a physical form or…
Hmm, see I dont have a problem to that scenario. Subscriptions to rental services like this and even something like Foxtel are always at the whims of rights management – my issues is paying an amount (lets say $30 for a new release) for a movie and losing access to that because the site no longer exists and they give you no way of downloading a digital copy of it
This is why physical media should never die. You pay $30 for that disc, you can play it wherever, whenever on whatever. And if that discs distributor goes bankrupt, you can still use that disc
This definitely makes me think about buying favourite movies or tv shows on DVD.
This is going to come down to whether people were really only purchasing a licence to use the product (as with computer software) and whether that licence is truly in perpetuity or simply for the lifetime of either the purchaser or seller.
I don’t buy movies but, as with the two JJ’s, this is why I prefer my music and the occasional TV series to be a physical product. Plus, the sound quality is better and I like the booklets and liner notes that you get with them.
I always feel uneasy about services like these – it’s the same as buying anything on Fetch TV, once you stop your subscription, you lose access to the content you’ve purchased. Much prefer something like iTunes where you can download a copy, or indeed buying the DVD/Blu-Ray and ripping that.
Wow, so anyone that forked out money to legally own movies from the site, are not even entitled to what they legally purchased. There are already people saying they are going to consumer affairs, about this, as they there was no warning given, or for that matter no way of getting a physical copy on a computer before they shut down. No wonder I only buy DVD and Blu-ray.