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

... 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

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:16 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Netflix share price is down nearly $20 since market open Monday, btw. In fact since its peak last Wednesday it's down nearly $70. Good job, CEO Reed Hastings! Your shareholders have lost a third of their value!

Another apologetic email in 5...4...3...

According to http://feedfliks.com/, I pay 38 cents a movie/episode I watch for netflix. I watch 5 dvds a month and stream 40 movies/episodes a month. The DVDs is low, because it is mostly TV series, so it may take several nights to watch all the episodes. I've returned 598 DVD's since July of 2000.

Not bad, considering it is usually past 8pm when I'm able to settle down and watch anything.

LOL: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix

Netflix share price is down nearly $20 since market open Monday, btw. In fact since its peak last Wednesday it's down nearly $70. Good job, CEO Reed Hastings! Your shareholders have lost a third of their value!

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:00 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

buy

Oh I get it now, the ? stands for EED HASTINGS.

ice creed hastingsm ;)

ya i was gonna say, sale on netflix stock, time for visionaries like me n joe to buy up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzqVLv2E_JA

help me n max save netflix

ice cr?m, max. Collectively they say, "WE BOUGHT A QWIKSTER"

http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/3080_9.dj-quik.jpg
"leave me the fuck outta this dawg"

http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Screen-shot-2011-09-19-at-8.46.21-AM.jpg

its cool guys in the future we'll just search everything with our branes

netflix + strategy = win