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

i'd bet on netflix in the long run; as the times piece points out, it's less cash to break in to the streaming business than to get the postage up but NFlix has been really smart and innovative more or less from jump and they don't appear to be doing anything except moving the goalposts away from competitors at the moment

But are movie studios even making significant money off DVD sales of things like McGruber to individuals anymore?

US DVD sales of Prince of Persia were $15 million last week.

were those all to individuals or does that include sales to distributors, video stores, etc?

also Prince of Persia isn't exactly comparable to McGruber in terms of marketing push and (probably) viewer interest

those are individual sales, so it excludes distributors, rental stores, etc...

Even if McGruber only pulls in a quarter of the Prince of Persia in a week that's still nothing to sniff at from the studios. They don't like rentals getting more popular, of course.

macgruber seems like it was designed for home video

Hey guys, I am overworked and I need something as escapist as possible that can take me away from thesis work/stress for 70-90 mins. Must be on streaming NF. Any recs? Ponyo? Crank 2?

That's P-O-N-Y-O, btw. Netflix is a family service.

Ponyo is cool if you like:
- ancient species of fish
- ham

Also pretty high on old people content.

I liked it.

I don't know that I really do like those things. I like funny things

Also, I'm Jewish, so ham is pretty heavy for me, in terms of semiotics

i imagine i'd enjoy ponyo and crank 2 much more if they were the same movie.

I want to see Crank 1 but it is not there. Ditto Transporter.

You know...Crank One!

Ponyo also has a cool ancient wizard who has a water pump.

It doesn't have a lot of laughs per minute, though...at all.

Oh - Friday! I've actually never seen that

How the fuck are you going to let me watch the first disc of a series and then shitcan the whole fucking thing w no warning? This just happened with Dexter season 4

Keep an eye of what's coming up and what's going on on Instant with this: InstantWatcher

gukbe, that is exactly what i've been looking for. thanks, you're a peach!

That meant to say "what's going down" as in being taken off. there's a list.

why would they take off an incredibly popular show like dxtr!?

They're about to raise their prices too. I went up to 3 discs because it wasn't much more than 2, but gonna go back to 2 and get around to streaming more.

so i guess netflix had an issue with Showtime regarding Dexter. looks like they ironed d it out because it's back on today.

did this site just go down

yeah I can't log in. streaming works though

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oh man, i really wanted to see that

We’re sorry, the Netflix website and the ability to instantly watch movies are both temporarily unavailable.

However, our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs so your order is in process as usual.

wonder what specifically causes these outages

It's my fault. I tried sorting all the "steamy romances" by my predicted star rating.

Huh, now it's switched around:

We’re sorry, the Netflix website and our DVD shipping operations are temporarily down.
You can still instantly watch movies via your Netflix ready device.

i will probably take this back soon enough, since i just signed up bc there is a free 1-month trial and instant watch is a thing in canada now, but:
Canadian Netflix is some bullshit

due to two moves and my lack of organization, I now have had 4 DVDs checked out since December of 2007. I've paid the minimal fee each month to avoid having to pay replacement fees, though that's kind of moot now that I've probably made more than I would have.

The good news is, I now know where all of them are. Don't have the sleeves or the envelopes, but I can send them back and start renting again!

like, how is everything i want to watch 'not available'? The Wire, 24, the sopranos. i am trying to catch up on years of tv culture here, ca.netflix.com
xp

there's a lot of "seriously, you don't have this??"s on Netflix. I was surprised the last time I used the streaming service.

What I hate the most is when they have a sequel but not the original movie.

you have to treat it like a disorganized book store: browse for something that looks fun and interesting rather than go in expecting to find something specific

n/a otm

tbh though that's why I still prefer the rental service. the streaming picture quality kinda sucks too (even on the television).

plus teh speed of the service makes it easy to watch an assload of movies. I had the 4-dvd plan at one point, and since work has a mailroom, I would watch a movie, then go to the mailroom and drop it off teh next day. watched 20 movies in a span of 3 weeks that month.

even on a 1-dvd plan you could rack em up fast.

ah, yes, i kinda get that, but no, aren't these extremely popular tv series available in the US? i do believe they are...
eesh, can't even watch x-files. but they do have farscape :)
xps
i don't even have a dvd player at the moment! lol netbook. quality picture is not where i am at. soon tho.

HBO series generally aren't on netflix streaming, but i think 24 is

yeah, but they're not even available for ordering on dvd o_O
tbh canada is just not very good at the internet in general :/ i mean, we're getting there, fingers crossed, upcoming election and all that

24, dexter, I think the x files is on there now. but HBO shows are not. some showtimes series are.

the picture quality has gotten a lot better (for me) lately. I imagine there are all sorts of regional problems with that.

it depends largely on the bandwidth of your connection. I have shitty dsl and the image quality is pretty subpar over appltv. ok for some things but anything with lots of motion it's a digitized mess.

i am enjoying the hell out of the young indiana jones on instant watch

First four seasons of Mad Men coming to streaming in July.

Battlestar Galactica has been eating up my late nights recently since they added the miniseries.

i watched all of season one of farscape in 3 days last week
tbh

if you'd been meaning to get into the That's So Raven fandom, now's the time! all seasons on instant watch!

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it depends largely on the bandwidth of your connection. I have shitty dsl and the image quality is pretty subpar over appltv. ok for some things but anything with lots of motion it's a digitized mess.

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Yeah you would think so, but I haven't moved or changed internet services and it has steadily gotten better. I'm impressed so far; I thought they'd start cutting quality as more and more people used the service.