Netflix probably won’t boost its support for 3D...
Netflix probably won’t boost its support for 3D movies, the company said Friday, but wouldn’t immediately say whether it will abandon 3D content altogether. It launched 3D streaming in January and has a “few dozen” such titles now, said spokesman…
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Joris Evers. But 3D streaming “isn’t something we will look to expand as it is used very little,” he said. The company “experimented” with Blu-ray 3D offerings earlier, but “only shipped very few units” to subscribers, said spokeswoman Karen Barragan. Netflix wouldn’t say if it plans to offer Blu-ray 3D titles again or reconsider its plans for streamed 3D movies, especially in light of the strong theatrical 3D showing of the movies Gravity and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Separately, Netflix had an outage Thursday night that lasted about 40 minutes and “impacted streaming on most devices” in parts of the U.S., Canada and Latin America, said Barrigan. The outage started at 6:45 p.m. PST, and affected about 30 percent of streaming “starts across devices” used by subscribers, said spokesman Jonathan Friedland.