Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

WAIT A MINUTE, I'M CHANGING THE REEL ON THIS NEW BLOCKBUSTER 'THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY'. THE CANNISTERS WERE JUST DROPPED OFF VIA PONY EXPRESS LAST MONTH.

That's half-whiny to you!

Inglorius Basterds has been at the top of my queue since it was released on DVD and it is still listed as Very Long Wait.

I agree that after a while, this gets pretty annoying.

"this is a degree of whiny tight-assery that should be filed under some word that "first world problems" won't adequately cover"

This is amazingly rich.

xp Weird - I just put IB in my queue to see, and it was listed as available "Now". Oh, Netflix, you and your shady algorithms.

Sure, but will it say "Now" when it's time for Netflix to actually send it to you?

Good point!

It's interesting that you would see different availability. You're both looking at DVD, not Blu-ray?

do you guys live near each other?

I added Paranormal Activity to our queue about a week before it was released, but there were two movies ahead of it. When I sent the disc before it back I checked the availability and it said "Long Wait", but it still showed up in our mailbox two days later.

yeah I hit em up for Serious Man like 4 days ago and it said "long wait" but then it arrived on Saturday

Yeah I get Long Wait movies all the time (like BLACK DYNAMITE.)

I'm glad I posted here, because it is clear that you people are the reasons for my long waits! first few movies on my queue that have been getting skipped: A Serious Man, Zombieland, Black Dynamite... and then Hurt Locker and Inglourious, which I got so sick of waiting for I just bought them on Blu-Ray (cheap on amazon).

Well I got Black Dynamite on Friday and returned it the next day. Same with Hurt Locker.

Yeah its awesome because I call them and say, "hey, could you please not send this movie over to richie aprile (rockapads) and send it over to me instead?", and they are always like, "sure! no problem".

i knew it!

Don't worry, I'm going to go after Alex in SF's movies next. You should start getting yours again!

I have Black Dynamite out right now, btw.

plz to hurry so i can watch, lol, and post my opinions to the black dynamite thread. thx.

-r.a.

Out of 455:

Very Long Wait
Paranormal Activity
Zombieland
Beau Travail
Inglorious Basterds

Long Wait
Igby Goes Down
Band of Brothers Disc 1
Gladiator

Short Wait
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre
Family Nest
The Deer Hunter
Ball of Wax
Country Boys Disc 1
The September Issue
Dead Snow

That's really weird because I just now checked my queue and Zombieland is 3rd on the list and says 'Now'.

When I sent the disc before it back I checked the availability and it said "Long Wait", but it still showed up in our mailbox two days later.

I've never had to wait very long for a "long wait" movie, tbh. Usually two or three days.

watch less new movies, they generally suck

Maybe you should watch more new movies, which suck less

FWIW, 3 of the very long waits are blu Ray.

Do you guys all live near each other? I would think wait time would correlate very closely to which distribution center you were closest to.

Apparently the one copy of Inglorious Basterds at the Austin distro center is in constant demand. I guess ol' QT is pretty popular around here...

I'm in Chicago.

I was only ever annoyed when I got a movie after a wait and then it was too scratched to play.

that's annoying, but also a situation where they will send you a new copy as soon as you report the problem.

They're customer service has been great. There have been some issues with syncing on the watch instantly movies, and each time I've reported the issue, they've given me a credit on my account.

isn't it also a function of now many movies you rent per month? i'm absolutely terrible, keep things for weeks (i do use Roku all the time though) so Netflix is dying to keep my business - I think I got Hurt Locker the day after I put it at the top of my queue, same w Inglourious Basterds.

This is something that really bugs me with how they prioritize things. The more moeny you spend and the more movies you can get at once, the slower your service is. Kind of strikes me as ass-backwards.

Netflix, every time I think "Oh I'm just going to cancel this for a few months" and go to the website and see how cheap it is and how many movies I get, I can't bear myself to do it. Recently I moved and where I moved to there is a 1-2 day return on movies if I mail them out in the morning at the post box down the street.

Yeah, I watch 3 a week easily, sometimes more. That's not even including streaming stuff. No matter how pissy I get, it's still well worth my money until I get to the point where I've seen everything I want to see. It seems like it would make more sense that they would send new movies to people who watch and return movies quickly, but I guess not.

I don't know about that, because I've had friends who had their accounts essentially throttled for returning movies too quickly. A couple years ago a friend of mine was laid off and burning through movies, he'd get the mail and watch a movie he just got only to drop in back in the mail later that same day. Eventually they started holding movies 3-4 days before sending them to him and when called, they told him his account had "suspicious activity". I don't know if they thought he was just borrowing and copying them or what, but it was pretty weird.

http://feedfliks.com

I keep an eye on this to make sure I'm getting my money's worth. With DVDs and the Instant Watch movies I view, I'm spending 59 cents a movie. I'd say that's worth it. Hell, I've been a Netflix member for 10 years, I doubt I cancel it anytime soon.

shit tons of Comedy Central/MTV/Nickelodeon shows just added, Chapelle's Show and Reno 911 will keep me busy for a long time

I put A Serious Man on our queue when it first came out on DVD in February, it's been on the top of our queue the entire time, and they are just sending it to us today. Don't usually have to wait that long for a new movie, especially a popular (ie not obscure) one. I wonder why it took so long?

They're just not buying as many discs. They're in this limbo right now where they are pushing streaming at the cost of new releases in a number of ways. It's cheaper for them and will probably be good in the long run, but it's pretty aggravating for users at the moment. I think eventually they want to stream everything and charge instant premiums for new movies. When everything is available that will be great for most people (although I'll be the old man with my blu-rays).

just got the disc from netflix that lets you stream stuff to yr wii. pretty awesome except now I feel like there's another pile of movies in my house I'll never get around to watching.

fair warning, the wii/netflix interface is pretty annoying

I like the wii/netflix interface! But I'm just weird that way.

yeah, I only played with it for a couple of minutes, seemed kinda chaotic but I guess if you add things to yr instant queue using the website it's a little easier to manage. my main issue is there doesn't seem to be any parental controls, which presents a challenge in letting the little ones watch up and pee-wee's big adventure without exposing them to the likes of antichrist and flesh for frankenstein.

Or 9 Songs which is also on Watch Instantly

antichrist has a talking fox in it so it has to be good for kids, right?
but srsly, that is a good point. we have netflix on demand going through Roku now, and yeah, no parental controls as far as I can see. don't have to worry about that at the moment w/ a 10-month old, but it does seem like something that should be available.

If I was 12 years old today I think it would take me about 6 minutes to realize I could sort the Watch Instantly catalog by the tag 'steamy'.

they liked the fantastic mr fox so...

I guess it's not any worse then when their mother left her dexter dvd in the player: "there were people getting killed so we turned off the tv"

another quarter in the therapy jar lol

Why do things keep being taken off of streaming Netflix? Are they rotating stuff or what?

Yeah, they rotate stuff.