The biggest bonehead mistake was splitting up Netflix into 2, new companies.  Netflix would now only be streaming and the DVD mail-order section would become Qwikster. [see Netflix parody video]  Now customers could pay for 2 different things with 2 different websites to track and maintain.

Kids, this is why they invented testing new ideas out on control groups first.

The Netflix/Qwikster debacle will now go down in history as one of the bigger corporate blunders right up there next to another big red company.  If you are old enough, and I realize some of you are not, there was a time when the Coke company had a similar brain fart.

The idea was to bring out a new version of the loved Coke drink.  New Coke was reformulated in 1985 by The Coca-Cola Company to replace the original formula of its flagship soft drink, Coca-Cola. New Coke originally had no separate name of its own, but was simply known as “the new taste of Coca-Cola” until 1992 when it was renamed Coca-Cola II.

Why Coca-Cola II stuck around for so long I’ll never know.  Why they added “II” to the end is also mind-boggling.  It sounds like a sequel and we all know that sequels in the 80′s were always watered down versions of the original movie.  Except ‘Breakin’.’

‘Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo’ is awesome.

With the angered customers using social media to mock and openly chastise Netflix the company reversed its position and has now decided to ditch the Qwikster.   The blunder isn’t big enough to kill the company but the current leadership might be.  Hopefully they will get their act together and stop messing around with Netflix and do the only thing everyone really wants, add the good stuff to the streaming members.

Netflix has botched their once successful business plan that had a loyal following with an epic lack of communication and confusing business plan.  Price hikes and an unnecessary split of the company into two entities, Netflix and Whogivesadamnster, have divided and angered customers.

The heads of Netflix were on television and sat down on NBC’s Saturday Night Live to issue an official apology to the users. It clears some things up…kinda.

NBC Universal

NBC, USA Network and SyFy programs will be added that include the pop-culture series Psych, the geek-tastic Battlestar Galactica, as well as all the back catalogs of NBC shows like Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock and The Office.

The good news is the addition of new material.  BSG and Psych are awesome additions but the newest episodes of SNL and sitcoms like The Office are great.

The NBC deal with Netflix is another middle finger to Apple, which NBC has fought with for years over the prices of their shows in the iTunes store.  NBC claims that the value of their shows are more than the $.99 price tag Apple offers for TV show rentals.  Instead, it is OK to stream as much as you want for $9 a month.

You don’t need a calculator to figure out that NBC’s logic doesn’t add up there but who cares.  Anyone with a Wii, XBox, PS3 or Netflix-capable streaming device can enjoy in the muddled logic.  The deal should kick off the new additions to the Instant Streaming section some time next week.

* Episodes from every season of NBC’s signature comedy franchise “Saturday Night Live,” including day-after broadcast of the upcoming 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons plus hundreds of episodes from the first 35 years of “SNL.”

* Every episode from the last season of the multiple Emmy® Award-winning series “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Law & Order: SVU,” as well as earlier seasons of those shows renewed for streaming from Netflix under the current deal.

* All prior seasons – and eventually next year’s final season – of “Friday Night Lights,” the small-town drama surrounding high-school football in Dillon, Tex.

* All prior seasons of USA Network hits “Psych,” the comedy featuring James Roday as a fake psychic who solves crimes with his best friend, Dule Hill; the drama “In Plain Sight,” starring Mary McCormack as a U.S. Marshal in New Mexico; as well as all seasons of “Monk,” starring Emmy® Award and Golden Globe® Award winner Tony Shalhoub in the title role. Prior seasons of all three shows are available to watch instantly at Netflix for the first time.

* More than 75 prior season episodes of Syfy’s mainstay “Battlestar Galactica,” as well as prior seasons of the network’s popular series’ “Destination Truth” and “Eureka” – all streaming from Netflix for the first time.

No streaming or torrents back in those days. Man, those days really sucked now that we think about it….

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Grab your copy of “Star Trek” (on sale today – DVD/Blu Ray or catch it on Netflix) because it’s the best movie of the year and because of all the great bonus stuff.

One lucky chap went through it to find a stray R2-D2 flying around in space.  This little Easter Egg pops up early and we’re gonna be looking for R2 to make sure this isn’t a photoshop trick by Gizmodo.