Weeks after enraging customers by announcing a price hike, Netflix has subscribers up in arms again. Netflix is splitting into two different companies, the DVD mail-rental company announced Sunday. Netflix will now predominantly be a film streaming service, while their offshoot Qwikster will handle mail-delivered DVDs. Rebecca Greenfield, staff writer for The Atlantic Wire, says this signals the beginning the “new dark age of movie watching.”
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