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

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.

Esp. the stuff that's on NetFlix cuz it's on Starz or IFC or whatever.

i really need to get a roku box

tell me more about it. Mrs Adam can get one cheap from work

roku is pretty cool. we've had occasional low-quality issues, but not that many. very easy interface.

I don't understand how it magically connects to the Internet.

magic?

woah

you have a wii so I don't think you need one.

it doesn' tmagically connect to the internet, it connects to your local wifi.

but if your wife can get one cheap for me that would be lovely.

Can I request your wife do the same, Adam?

Oh it isn't an official work thing, just a dude who is selling his haha

But if you like theme parks, I can get you a good deal

we might need that soon too. ian asks to go to disneyland roughly 700 times an hour. ok that is an exaggeration.

FIne. Do you know how expensive that place is for "normals"?? *shudder*

it doesn' tmagically connect to the internet, it connects to your local wifi.

Oh. I don't have one of those.

you can also just plug it into your internet connection if you have a router.

not bad

what is up with netflix not getting new movies on DVD until like a month after they're available in stores? saw "bored to death" in target the other day, netflix has it coming out oct. 19. similar deals with "get him to the greek" and "macgruber"

Apparently the movie companies have decided to dick over NetFlix by offering these things to OnDemand and Target, Walmart, etc, first.

argh fuck them
you are a dying industry, get over it, record labels and book and magazine publishers already have

Funny you should ask.

i think their model is slow and steady for online and just hold down a solid catalog and that's the model I'll support.

oh my god you're gonna have to wait a month to see macgruber

if you miss of-the-moment parodies like macgruber when they first come out you might as well not see them

For example, “Robin Hood,” starring Russell Crowe, is available to stream on Amazon but will not be available on Netflix until Oct. 19.

I completely forgot this had even come out.

And yeah, I don't really mind waiting a month to see new releases, since if I really wanted to see it that badly, I would've seen it in the theater.

truth bomb right there

OnDemand used to be a month behind the DVD street date iirc

any oldsters remember when you couldn't buy VHS/DVDs until a few months after they hit the video stores? (who paid like $89.99/copy)

I remember throwing a tantrum when I was 12 and breaking a rented VHS tape in the process and then freaking out because I thought I would owe $89.

(Actually, I have no idea what happened with this.)

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first VHS my parents bought, cost $49 on sale at Specs in spring '85.

Raiders was our first video too. the electronics store in the mall had all the tapes behind glass w/ holes to stick your hand in to view a box. shit was wicked $$. i learned to copy rentals real quick.

When I bought the coaxial cable at Radio Shack that allowed me to copy videotapes, I was in hog heaven. This was '95, I think. I still own some of those transfers.

unless those originals has "copyguard."

I remember that for a rented video tape I saw at my sister's apt, we had to rent a VHS player too. And they were large and heavy back then.

I held out on buying a VCR until the price had plunged to about $350.

saw goonies recently for the first time on VHS and that shit looked HI-DEF, not kidding. hold on to your decks!

I have a) a baby and b) no money so I'm seeing all of my movies at home these days.

and obv it's not a huge deal to see mcgruber a month later but part of the deal with netflix is that it's "just like getting dvds from the video store except they come to your house!" except it's not, when netflix doesn't get the movies for a month after every one else. and maybe right now it's just mcgruber (which noted movie critic and bon vivante s1ocki LOVED btw) and other dumb shit but I think these staggered releases are some shady shit and probably eventually the studios are going to think "hey why don't we just hold back everything from netflix" and basically it just sucks

i wonder why all these asshole movie companies don't just bend over backwards to help out the people with no money to give them.

it's bending over backwards to release their movies on dvd to everyone at the same time?

i mean, i can see why it's a little frustrating to you, obv. But you can't deny that there is money to be made in releasing a DVD for sale ($14) a month earlier than a Netflix rental (appx $2 to $7)