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

how many of you guys still buy DVD's -- Amazon, wherever?

ive bought like 2 dvds in my life, never understood wanting them tbh

i only buy DVDs if i think they have a lot of ahem rescreening value now -- all-time favorite movies, stuff with a lot of cool extras that i want to watch over a long period of time, collections of TV shows that weren't on for like 8+ seasons

last DVD i bought was Serious Man, before that um uhh this when it was new http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Movies-Gammill-Tinnell-Upchurch/dp/B000CEX30S I guess don't understand owning movies either.

that's how I've become with books too. I'm trying to shift my thinking about music too.

I will buy a DVD if I can't get it on Netflix.

saw/bought the abyss for the first time on vhs recently... it's a very strange movie!

That was my next question. How many of you guys still USE your VCR's?

(I used mine to watch Dead Ringers three weeks ago)

Qwikster
Don't believe that nigga that sed the bought my shyt cuz it aint tru
35 minutes ago

Last DVDs I bought, I think was Twin Peaks series. It was a gift for someone else in my home. This was before it was available via streaming. Other than that, I sold off a lot of my DVDs throughout the years. I just find little need to own a movie or TV series.

see i still buy books b/c i like the physical objects – they are the only thing i have ever collected, and i just like having them around and frequently i lend them out/give them away anyway. i will buy books 4 lyfe. but dvds? movies? videogames? they are totes ephemeral to me

books are self contained units w/o need for an interpretation unit* - just flip open and away you go

*don't even try

yeah i buy books and have never even read one ebook, which lets just say wildly divergent from my standard operating procedure

Everyone I know who has a Kindle loooooooves it but I could never.

good point abt the needlessness of a device

except maybe ~yr imagination~

http://i.imgur.com/WAR96.jpg

I have to confine much of my reading to library books because I don't have the space for the books, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs

aww damn cr?m

lol

last DVD I bought was the blade runner blu-ray 5 disc set, I don't even own a blu-ray player

Enemy Pie eh

a tv show abt reading, gateway drug for post modernism

I still buy DVDs occasionally (big Criterion order late last year, Sergio Leone box, Little Rascals box) but fewer and fewer as time passes. My wife seems to be willing to drop a $5 bill on any old shite, and still buys season sets for one or two series that she watches, but rewatching tv shows ad nauseam is a depression staple for her. She's probably watched every bit of Buffy six or seven times.

the job i am most made for in the universe is as replacement host for reading rainbow but i am not a candle next to the awesomeness of cosmic guy levar burton

loool when markers linked to @Qwikster last nite dude had like 43 followers and he has 4200 now

http://i.imgur.com/CdIIl.png

good point -- rate hike probably weeded out a lot of people who were like "i've had the same three unwatched discs on top of my tv for the last 6 months"

― some dude, Monday, September 19, 2011 5:52 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was this guy. also because i was out of town when the deadline hit for sending em back, i became the proud owner of Powwow Highway

Hey u changed my thread title

http://twitter.com/#!/Qwikster/status/115937488559816704

XD

http://twitter.com/#!/Qwikster/status/115945170419187712

I think there's a little bit of prescience with the decision to split though. DVD in the mail is still dependent on the US postal service and when that finally collapses (everyone seems convinced that some sort of crisis is at hand) it would have clobbered old Netflix's financials.

More here: http://www.splatf.com/2011/09/netflix-qwikster-facts/

so I'm one of the "three disks on top of the tv for months" DVD cancellers for streaming only. BUT - I was going to add the DVD option back in because the minute I went streaming only, the fuckers dropped Dexter and I'd only watched the first season.

Now I've got to sort out if it's worth it to get a Roku or some other device that will get me access to the free Amazon Prime instant streaming (not supported by Tivo) vs. Quikster (what a terrible name) or just paying the $2/ep or upgrading the cable or what the fuck other options there are out there.

just dont watch dexter

^ pro tip

Can't stop, I'm committed. Though maybe 30Rock or The Wire can displace it. It is irritating how frequently stuff just disappears from being available on the instant queue.

cr?m otm

http://www.splatf.com/2011/09/netflix-qwikster-facts/

Maybe some glorious day, there will be torrents that stream HD video.

... directly TO YOUR BRANE

netflix's HD streaming to our PS3 looks pretty great, and I'm generally kind of a jerk about yr resolutions, bitrates, etc

We've got the same setup at my place. Everything usually looks pretty amazing.

that qwikster twitter guy is a folk hero

http://i.imgur.com/cp1lK.jpg

that was fast

ok so i was talking to my dad about all these Netflix changes today and he calls me back later and is all "haha they named it uh Trickster or something after what Elmo was called when he smoked weed on seasame street" and i was like "What. The. Fuck. are you talking about????"

I had Hurt Locker for a good nine months. Watched it two weeks ago; now I've got Funny People for who knows how long.

eh just return it

kerm's dad

my wife used to be the primary account holder on our netflix but she's a total unwatched-discs-for-months type so i started paying for it and i have the 2-disc queue and she has a 1-disc queue. i'll go through a couple things a week that i watch with or without her, she had Casablanca for 18 months before i ended up watching it (and all the commentary tracks) without her and sending it back.