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MovieFlix.com Reaches 2.5 Million Members
November 13, 2007

The online movie service, MovieFlix.com announced today thats website membership has reached 2.5 million subscribers.

The company, which offers a free basic subsription model and premium model to more popular titles for $7.95, says the significant increase in membership is attributed to the rising prevalence of both broadband and wireless Internet connections and the site's expanded film selection of over 4,000 titles.

"We're extremely pleased to see our membership numbers growing so rapidly. MovieFlix provides a unique combination of high speed streaming video and rare, classic and hard to find movies. This niche market has proven to be larger than expected and our members tend to be real movie buffs who are extremely loyal," says MovieFlix cofounder and CEO Opher Mizrahi.

MovieFlix.com, founded in 1998, is a privately held company based in Hollywood. Its library contains movies, short films, independent films and television shows in over thirty popular categories -- many of which are offered to members for unlimited free viewing.

It has 4,000 movie titles, of which 250 are adult titles, said its spokesman Robert Moskovits.

MovieFlix has two subscription models: a free basic package, which entitles users to about 1,500 titles available only on a Real Player; or for $7.95 a month, they can upgrade to a MovieFlix Plus subscription package, which includes more popular movies and unlimited downloads, and access to a Media Windows Player, said Moskovitz.

Posted by Ned Randolph on November 13, 2007 | Comments (2)


March 24, 2008
In response to: MovieFlix.com Reaches 2.5 Million Members
Krickit2 commented:

I tried their service -- Don't waste your time or money. I started with the free service that plays everything in realmedia which is so compressed that the quality is trash. So I read around the website and it seemed to indicate that I download it in WMP if I bought the subscription. That is not true. You still download in the same crappy realmedia quality. Also I called to cancel my subscription within an hour after I purchased it and was told they they could cancel it but could not give me a refund. I would have to e-mail the billing department at the supplied address. A big part of their movies are old public domain movies that have not been restore and and then add the real media compression. Even at 9.95 a month it is not worth it. I would rather pay more somewhere else for better quality or buy the actually DVD's at Dollartree type stores.




July 25, 2008
In response to: MovieFlix.com Reaches 2.5 Million Members
Mark commented:

I joined just to see what they had. Took 2 minutes to join and then I decided to cancel. There is no mention of canceling your membership anywhere on the site or in your receipts. I finally had to email customer support. They emailed back asking for information on why I was cancelling and then at the end said if I still wanted to cancel I HAD TO CALL THEM! I only have a pay-as-you-go cell phone. IT's going to cost me money to cancel my membership. Bottom line. Don't bother with these people. It's not worth the hassle.





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