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

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

HAVING TO SEARCH TWICE NOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/crying-father.jpg

"having to search twice... this sounds like the beginning of the end"

naw I get what you're saying in fact it would be cool if they could make a google 1 and a google 2 and if you didn't find what you were looking for on 1 you could just search on 2 all websites should do this

it's just an annoyance but annoyances create opportunities for competitors

Someone will come up with a bookmarklet to search both in about 5 seconds.

http://tinyurl.com/6jdgf7f

We are truly the worst generation.

omg markers

because old generations took increases in inconvenience so well

surely the greatest generation would just recall the depression and continue to stream/rent without complaint

one of the frustrating things about 'the coming content wars' is that i wouldnt feel so invested in defending netflix/propping it up if i felt like the government would at all be looking out for my interests over the next ten years and doing stuff like blocking horrible mergers, holding companies accountable, ensuring competition.

but i cant! so i have to turn to a corporation in the hopes that it will provide a path to a better future of getting high and watching STNG

the united states is 25th in the world in avg internet speed fyi. just behind romania!

In the years that followed the signing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, lobbyists working for powerful providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon pressured a compliant FCC to tear down all of the important safeguards established by Congress.

Under the Bush administration, the FCC tossed out competitive broadband safeguards such as open-access requirements, which opened lines to other providers. In 2002 the agency declared that high-speed cable Internet access would no longer be considered a telecommunications service that opened the network to competitors, but rather an “information service” that did not. Following a 2005 court decision, the FCC also reclassified broadband delivered by the phone companies as an “information service.”

These were radical policy shifts that went against the long-held assumption that open communications in competitive markets were essential to economic growth and innovation.

While the U.S. blindly followed a path of "deregulation," other nations in Europe and Asia beefed up their pro-competitive policies. The results are evident in our free fall from the top of almost every global measure of Internet services, availability and speed.

HAVING TO SEARCH TWICE NOOOOOOOOOO

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:57 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

eh as a criticism if a product its perfectly legit, certainly SOME PEOPLE around here spend a lot of time and effort criticizing various musical products that their lives would be totally fine w/o, as something to cry abt not so much

if netflix started putting down fiber in undeveloped areas i think everyone would feel more sympathetic to them.

whiney just wishes people would find something more worthwhile to criticize than corporations who make their services less convenient, like chillwave for instance

One of the best things about Watch Instantly is when some little movie that Netflix doesn't bother to promote pops up in my instant queue because it's in my DVD queue. I can live without it, and maybe I will also think about hunger in Africa or whatev, but it's still a bummer that it won't happen anymore.

i mean why complain about a company doing the opposite of what people want a company to do when there are people in williamsburg listening to stupid music

netflix, the destroyer

so the dramatic outcry about this isn't at all out of proportion?

it's less absurd than taking vocal pride in your ability to maintain a stiff upper lip in the face of corporate asshattery

considering miccio's twitter feed is like 80% whogivesashit.jpg summaries of what he's watching, i can see how he'd defend generation wahmbulance on this one.

that's a good book title

Whiney is priceless with his "generation wahmbulance" bullshit when he's regularly getting all teary because people talk about music he doesn't like.

it's not generation wahmbulance you asshat, our economy is built on this type of decision-making