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

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.

― akm, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:58 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

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.

Toy Story 3 is streaming

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

haha this is the most irritating thing abt living in canada i think fwiw ive been told its licensing issues & that theyre mostly being worked out - i guess the amount of content is already exponentially better than it was @ launch

kinda lol but i was having brunch w/ ~media ppl~ this weeknd & heard a lot abt how 'theres no money in tv anymore' & was like... all you do is buy american programming and force ppl to watch your commercials. this is p much the easiest business to run in the world. anyway the digital rights for shit is already p locked up & netflix i guess is just negotiating it all...

Re: quality, I've been streaming to tv via Apple TV, with att uverse--surprisingly the quality is pretty good for most tv, newer movies don't seem to look as sharp.

HEY, FUCK YOU NETFLIX

they're changing their pricing plans to make it more expensive to stream AND get physical DVDs

well, i barely ever use physical dvds so its a couple bucks cheaper 4 me ^__^

kinda sux, but I stream 95% of the time anyway no bigz

xp ha

if they ever get HBO to stream their tv shows i would totally ditch physical discs, but alas

i need to get the wire on dvd already and then it will be cheaper for me, too

lol xp

i'm hooked on bluray

i love dvds http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

oh dave cool. you love everything.

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/f/fe/It%27sRoy.jpg

dave cool wasn't really using the streaming part anyway. new system saved me a couple a bones http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

I'm more likely to dc the dvd's. which will reduce my selection but as it stands it takes me forever to get around to watching them, they sit around the house forever.

^^^this

ive had 'i love you man' for going on three months

but ive watched "R.O.T.O.R." like 8 times

via streaming

I keep putting these v. thoughtful acclaimed depressing movies in the dvd queue and then I'm like "well...is tonight the night I wanna watch the critically lauded one about all the people who are hopeless and can't get their act together...no fuck that I'm going to stream me a slasher movie"

I think the USPS will be the main loser here, and maybe not even them.

i cant recommend 'r.o.t.o.r.' enough btw. it is artfully incredible at being terrible -- like, it would have been easier to make a good movie

i don't even bother getting movies now, but i still burn thru dvds of tv shows

I keep putting these v. thoughtful acclaimed depressing movies in the dvd queue and then I'm like "well...is tonight the night I wanna watch the critically lauded one about all the people who are hopeless and can't get their act together...no fuck that I'm going to stream me a slasher movie"

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:28 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I used to do this all the time and **PROTIP** when you find yourself doing this, up your netflix plan by ONE. In that extra slot, always cycle something stupid. It's a little more expensive but you'll def get more movie watching done. I'm on the three-DVD system
--something smart
--something stupid
--whatever tv show that my and my girl are watching together

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

I keep putting these v. thoughtful acclaimed depressing movies in the dvd queue and then I'm like "well...is tonight the night I wanna watch the critically lauded one about all the people who are hopeless and can't get their act together...no fuck that I'm going to stream me a slasher movie"

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:28 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is me, but with zoolander. i think at one point netflix actually emailed me to be like, "...you know you've seen zoolander before, right?"

there is an unbelievable amount of whining about this going on on the internet right now

shut up, "the internet"

is there a facebook whining page yet so we can lol @ ppl

strawmen come to life

let us keep paying $15 for unlimited movie rentals and on demand streaming IMO

1 million strong for being mad doggie @ netflix!

there is an unbelievable amount of whining about this going on on the internet right now

lol I learned about the whole deal when a certain user of popular social networking platform Twitter popped up in my feed saying something very like "there is an unbelievable amount of whining about this going on on the internet right now"

im just crossposting all my ilx posts to twitter now #twitter #fb

dave cool otm btw

when I was a kid I got a tour of the netflix office with the mayor

they gave me Erin Brokovich for some reason to this day I don't know why

not really netflix office tho, rather, netflix factory

where they make netflixes?

netflixes are brought by storks ffs

it was a netflix factory where people package and send netflixes

Guess it's time to send back this Hurt Locker that I've had since November.

My plan just got 8 dollars pricier per month. :(

I got kind of mad, and then I thought "eh, maybe I'll just finally switch to streaming only". And now I'm wondering if that's Netflix's plan after all. If millions of people suddenly switch to streaming only that gives them a lot more leverage when negotiating their licensing deals with the studios.

Hmm, if I deduct streaming (which luddite me don't use that much), my plan would dip to $11.99 instead of (come September) $19.98.

I'm one of many people who practically stopped buying DVDs shortly after getting a Netflix subscription, but nonetheless I worry a bit about what the decline in DVD production means for the availability of older films. The DVD boom drove the restoration, remastering and reissuing of a lot of more obscure titles. What I'm not sure about is whether the fact that Netflix will inevitably be purchasing fewer discs will decrease that revenue even further (I have heard that they pay some distributors a pittance to stream their films, and some smaller labels like Blue Underground and Synapse aren't even offering their new titles on disc to Netflix anymore — probably on the reasonable assumption that more people will actually buy them if they can't rent them). Meanwhile, stuff that never made it to DVD does crop up on Netflix from time to time, but still the "saved" section of my queue seems to grow as fast as anything else. It does seem like despite the benefits of streaming the overall amount of material available to see has steadily declined.

^sadly otm but there are all kinds of other startups that offer shorts, documentaries, indies for streaming or as dvd rental too
it's just less one stop shopping

I've been a Netflix member for over 10 years, it's going to have to go up a lot more for me to cancel my subscription.

Unfortunately most of what I watch is on DVD and most of what my wife watches is on streaming, so we'll be sticking with our more expensive plan for now. I'd be ok with this if netflix made some major increases to the movies they have to stream, but that doesn't seem to be happening.