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

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

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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.

Garu G weighs in

verro152 said...
wow netflix one of my favrit pass times now going to bend us over the table and fuck us with out the curticy of a reach-around!!!! well i theink the people are sending a message now!! NO MORE PEE PEE TOUCH FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 12, 2011 5:02 PM

from my experience, streaming never looks nearly as good as a dvd or blu-ray. it's worth the extra bucks imo http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

Thinking about switching to Blockbuster Online, I like that they've got a contract to send out new movies on the date of release rather than waiting 30 days. Also, I'm never doing Redbox, their selection is worse than Netflix and their movie art substitutions are hilarious.

yeah all these ppl online saying "hello redbox" should just stare at a test pattern and imagine that there's people sayin' shit to each other on the screen because there's no way they actually care about what they're watching

good opinion, aero, but next time you should maybe find a less antagonistic way of saying it, at risk of offending some of your fellow ilxors

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dave cool has opinions 4 u

Streaming looks fine on my laptop ime and 100x better than via tv antennae which is how I saw star trek tng the first time around

My only problem with streaming is that since the PS3 hack I've been completely unable to get the Netflix streaming to work.

It crapped out for me once, but then I did a system update and now it's fine

Hmm, I've tried two system updates so far but it keeps saying 'this title is not available' for every single movie/show I try to watch.

maybe the movies you're picking are shy

they are shy because they are indecent.

i had the same issue the last time i fired up the ps3; 360 is working fine though

http://www.geekosystem.com/netflix-sharing-charges-more-concurrent/

that post uses the word "seem" a lot

Starz and Netflix are no more? Motherfuckers are gonna make me take my Party Down DVDs out of their case and actually put them in the DVD player to watch them??