Warner Instant Archive really seems like a desperate and even arrogant move by an old world giant looking to cash in on the internet age but failing to understand the market. You won't even find Warner Bros cartoon classics such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. It's hard to see how Warner Archive Instant will find success when its most exciting offerings are black and white reruns of The Adventures of Superman and 77 Sunset Strip. Even these Baby Boomers would probably find more worth watching on Netflix. In return you only get access to about 200 titles at launch, although you're unlikely to find much worth watching unless you grew up in the 1940s and 50s - not exactly a key demographic for online video service. ![]() Warner Bros seriously expects you to pay $US9.99 per month for access to Warner Instant Archive, more than you'd pay for a Netflix or HuluPlus subscription. It's a US-only service although you can tap into it from Australia using many of the usual geo-dodging tricks (although the Hola plugin for Chrome doesn't work). Last month Warner Bros launched Warner Instant Archive - an online video service letting you watch Warner Bros classic movies and TV shows stretching from the 1920s to the 1990s. What's really disturbing is that content is slowly disappearing from Netflix as the content owners lock it away in their own services, a trend that's likely to have a long-term impact on Australia's online video offerings. ![]() ![]() It's not that hard to bypass geoblocking to access them from Australia, although you might be underwhelmed by what you find. While the online video situation is slowly improving in Australia, the US-centric Hulu and Netflix are still seen by many people as the gold standard.
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