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

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.

Yeah, my wife is the prime offender behind our discs sitting on the shelf for months habit. She'll be all excited about me adding something to the queue and when it gets here she'll be all, "not in the mood for that right now".

and thats why streaming is better

for some people! mailed DVDs suit me perfectly.

what about divorce?

"Here's your envelope or here's your papers. Choose."

Well, tbh, we use both. Streaming is better for her (and its actually improved over the last few weeks, far less loading issues*), but I prefer getting the Blu-Ray discs myself. Depending on the film, I want to make sure I maximize the quality.

* - this may be a silly question, but does anyone know of an easy way of wiring my PS3 in directly with my cable? Right now I've got the cable coming in two locations in our house - one in a bedroom which is where our modem is located and one in the living room that, right now, runs directly to our DVR/cable box. Could I just use a splitter and run a smaller cable over to the PS3? For some reason I don't think it would be that easy.

dvd via mail is like having to call ahead to the restaurant and tell them what youd like for dinner tomorrow, streaming is just sitting down looking at the menu choosing and having it brought to you to eat

DVD has better quality carrots heirloom carrots. Streaming is a heap of wilted fast food iceberg lettuce.

sure but thats a temporary situation

also id like to add for the record 'i dont really care abt picture quality'

of course i dont really use netflix v much << old school media pirate

dvd via mail is like having to call ahead to the restaurant and tell them what youd like for dinner tomorrow, streaming is just sitting down looking at the menu choosing and having it brought to you to eat

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:54 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

there are only so many movies i actually want to see, and the movie i want to see on a Tuesday and the movie i want to see on the following Thursday are pretty much interchangeable. anyway i watch a lot of stuff on premium channels/on demand so i get the 'watch random movie on a sudden whim' tendency out of my system with that.

i don't REALLY care about picture quality either but if i have a good-sized TV i'm never gonna watch anything longer than a 5-minute youtube video on my little laptop screen with headphones on

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

hmmm now what am i in the mood for

having been a hobo for the last couple years i dont have anything to watch movies on besides my laptop

The paradox of choice is what really gets to me, with Spotify too. A gazillion movies and not one seems like the movie I want to watch "right now."

Yeah see, I didn't buy a 52" screen so I could watch shit on my laptop.

I really care a helluva lot about picture quality. I've had some good experiences with streaming but dark scenes are always a mess.

the thing people dont understand is it all takes place ~in yr mind~

and besides im more discussing netflix strategy and futurary visionism rather than the current viewing habits of lixors which is no offense #prettyboring

you started it with the "streaming is better because streaming is what i do" talk

did not!

Could someone let me know the best way to stream content from a Macbook through a Roku box? What are the snags/issues, aside from needing to go the third party route?

dvd via mail is like having to call ahead to the restaurant and tell them what youd like for dinner tomorrow, streaming is just sitting down looking at the menu choosing and having it brought to you to eat
--ice cr?m

And everything to eat is National Lampoon's Van Wilder