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The little video store rockist inside of me is kicking himself in the theoretical nads, but I take back everything I said, this isn't bad AT ALL.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It IS great! But after a few months you may find yourself passing up quality social time to make sure that you can watch enough Netflix movies for the month to keep the $$ - DISC ratio in your favor. Then next thing you know, you're fat and alone and watching "Brain Candy."

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

That already sounds like an eerily accurate representation of the ILE demographic.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't going to say it but you were bold enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(you guys are teh clevars)

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

dude i dont watch brain candy, c'mon

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe if you pretended Dave Foley was some sort of primate...?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I almost rented MXP this weekend but I was still too scared.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Then next thing you know, you're fat and alone and watching "Brain Candy."

Haha, that was me like 5 years ago.

These here are uncharted waters I'm typing from...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Come on, that Croatian cab driver is pretty funny.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate you for making me look at this site cuz I may end up doing this and therefore not giving money to my local video shop which makes me hate myself for even thinking it but this is too good of a deal not to consider especially since I have 10 dollars in late fees for Futurama right now. Damn.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

If there's any way to say "I feel your pain" without it sounding like a terrible cliche', I would.

Plus all the video stores in SF and the East Bay (yay Reel Video) are uniformly excellent.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah. We're one of like six places in the country where you don't have to go to Blockbuster. But late fees suck and they are killing me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

god i would love this, video in quebec is such a nightmare, and when netflix comes to canada it probably won't even be available here.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

If you are charming and the person at the register is of the opposite sex (or maybe even the same sex) you never pay late fees at Reel Video. That's why I like it.

I stopped Netflix after a year when I found myself without the time to watch films. I kind of exhausted the stuff I absolutely HAD to see that I couldn't find else where, and was renting stuff I just felt like I was supposed to see. Now I like going back into the video store and looking at boxes, I find more surprises that way. But I'll probably go back to Netflix at some point.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had 'Andrei Rublev' for about 3 months now. I'll probably finish it sometime this year.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Netflix is great, especially if you live close to one of their distribution sites: St Louis is close enough that it takes about four days from when I send a movie back to when its replacement arrives here. (Gamefly, the video game analogue to Netflix, is pretty crap because this isn't the case; the loop is ten to twelve days for me, because they're further away and clearly employ fewer mail folks.)

I've had a little lag with them lately; didn't receive a movie all last week. But that was unusual.

It's perfect for TV series: I'm not going to pay $100 for an Alias boxed set just to check out a show I'm curious about, and video stores in this area don't carry TV series except for the first couple months after a major one is released, but it's simple enough to pop it in the queue (rentals are done by disc, though, so five-disc boxed set = five rentals).

I'm not sure it's worth the price for folks who won't watch movies very often, unless they're already paying late fees because of renting stuff and letting it sit there, or if they go with the lowest plan; but I put movies in while I work, by default.

The only problem with it is that you only get the bonus disc in two-disc sets if you rent it separately -- and it doesn't usually seem worth the bother to do so, but it also means you're sometimes missing out on any special features that you might ordinarily at least browse through if you'd rented it locally and gotten the bonus disc as, you know, a bonus.

(Oh, another good thing: if something seems to have gotten lost in the mail, or is damaged and unwatchable, or etc., you just click on the button that says so and they give you the benefit of the doubt and ship out either a replacement or the next movie in your queue, whichever you tell them.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a bit annoying about the bonus discs.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, another good thing: if something seems to have gotten lost in the mail, or is damaged and unwatchable, or etc., you just click on the button that says so and they give you the benefit of the doubt and ship out either a replacement or the next movie in your queue, whichever you tell them.

And this has happened to me about twice in 18 months of fairly intense Netflixery. Can't recommend it more highly. It's a bit of a bummer about the bonus discs, but I've noticed that in cases where the movie proper covers two discs (Once Upon a Time in America, for example), they send out both discs simultaneously.

I just wish their collaborative filtering system would stop insisting I rent Norma Rae

I've had 'Andrei Rublev' for about 3 months now. I'll probably finish it sometime this year.

So that's why it's a "short wait" in my queue listing.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

So what's in everybody's queue?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Gerry

Cinemania

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Fitzcarraldo

Pickup on South Street

Songs from the Second Floor

Beau Travail

The Magdalene Sisters

Wings of Desire

Rashomon

Shampoo

Strangers on a Train

Modern Times

M. Hulot's Holiday

The Man in the White Suit

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Experiment in Terror

The Lost Weekend

The Man With the Golden Arm

Imitation of Life: Double Feature

From Here to Eternity

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey gygax, I'm finally gonna see Experiment In Terror. (and I just found out a friend of mine works at Le Video).

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

TOO MUCH. Top ten:

The Young Ones: Disc 1
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Zoolander
The Sweet Hereafter
Irma Vep
Man Bites Dog
Jerry Maguire
Poison
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
Kurt & Courtney

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Demonlover (2003)
Unknown Pleasures (2003)
Dirty Pretty Things (2003)
Elephant (2003)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Show Me Love (1998)
The Dancer Upstairs (2003)
Friday Night (2003)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Winchester '73 (1950)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Northfork (2003)
Hero (2002)

what's experiment in terror?

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: my list ... the comedy stuff is for a movie I am writing. Everything else is stuff that has been on my list since Day One.

Re: Le Video. Awesome store. I love it.

Re: alternatives ... search: greencine. Never used it but it's Netflix with an indie/foreign selection that looks impression. But with indie/foreign it will probably be hard to make it as financially worth your while as Netflix is.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, it hasn't been mentioned yet on the thread, but the selection is PHENOMENAL. Much more than any single store could hope to carry. Not as cool as a boutique store like Cinephile here in L.A., but I'm consistently surprised by titles that they do indeed carry.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

has the netflix selection improved? i considered it about 1.5-2 years ago and i couldn't find any of the dvds that i wanted.

experiment in terror is a blake edwards noir film that i recommended to @d@ml.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Cinefile and rent from there frequently (via a friend) but there customer service is ass ass ass.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, yes the selection is much improved, although you'll probably think the exact opposite.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(their, xpost, fuck my spelling and grammar)

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nicheflix.com/

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Love Netflix. But the #1 rule is to never, ever read the film synopsis on the DVD sleeve before popping it in your player. They tend to reveal major points of the film plot you'd probably wanrt to wait and find out for yourself!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Queue"

Nosferatu (Herzog)
Tokyo Story bonus disc
Rules Of the Game
Onibaba
The American Friend
The Count Of Monte Cristo
a Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes dvd
Bob le Flambeur

...

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

J, could you give a glowing testimonial re: Nicheflix so I can shower you with kisses from people who'd like to kiss you?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, yes the selection is much improved, although you'll probably think the exact opposite.

uh... okay! ?? !

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

that was a poorly set up, throwaway reference to our past disagreements.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The School of Rock
21 Grams
My So-Called Life: Disc 5
House of Sand and Fog
Shattered Glass
Wonderland
Something's Gotta Give
The Pink Panther
Alien:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
George Washington
Charlotte Sometimes
Sweet Sixteen
Blue Car
Far from Heaven
Tully
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Whale Rider
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Dirty Pretty Things
Husbands and Wives
Deconstructing Harry
Dummy
The French Connection
Raising Victor Vargas
The Thin Red Line
Runaway Jury
Under the Tuscan Sun
Sylvia
Schindler's List

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I just discovered nicheflix, so I can't, as much as I'd like to be showered with kisses. I haven't signed up yet--I'm planning to split an account with some neighborhood pals, and we need to straighten out the logistics. But it looks pretty awesome, eh?

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one big drawback to netflix is the lack of non-region 1 titles. If they carried other region DVDs I'd find it more useful now since there are a lot of things I'd like to see that haven't come out in the US yet, aren't available anymore in the US, or are different transfers or something. However, I guess there are legal issues with that having to do with the studios, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I am going to quit Netflix soon. I'd say that if you use it every other six months then it is totally reasonable. Unless of course you're sharing it with roommates ... etc.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My queue's maxed out with twenty or so things bookmarked. My next ten items, several of which aren't yet released or have been longwaited for a while:

Alias Season 1 Disc 5
Versus
Texas Chainsaw remake
Lost in Translation
Babylon 5 Season 3 Disc 3, 4, 5
The Last Unicorn
The Singing Detective remake
Belly

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm signing up for that Nicheflix trial account right now. That looks pretty swell even though I don't have a multi-region DVD player.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Little known factoid about Netflix: if you quit or threaten to quit, they'll offer you 2 DVDs at any one time for $13.95 a month. That's what my wife and I have used for a year or so now, and we find it puts less pressure on us to always constantly be watching DVDs. We had unsubscribed from the service for a while when we were finding ourselves not watching more than 1 or 2 a month.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

so far I've just left my trial membership. As far as I can tell, fucking awesome. Renting movies via mail = badass, renting DVDs via mail = awesome, renting with no late fees and a flat rate per month = I cancelled my cable. Word.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I just signed up. With any luck I will never have to deal with the surly clerks at Kim's again.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

So far, two of the three movies in my initial Nicheflix shipment arrived two days after being mailed -- they were mailed the day after I joined, though, not the day I joined. Not a big thing, but Netflix had my initial movies shipped within an hour.

Two days for 2 out of 3 (and I assume the 3rd probably went out later in the day and will be here tomorrow or that it's a postal twitch) is pretty damn good for what I assume is a recently begun company (at least more recently than Netflix); I don't know if it's that I'm near their major distribution center, or if they have multiple ones a la Netflix.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got my first 3 movies in the mail today--and they come in such tiny sliver packages--slim enough to fit into NYC apartment mailboxes. Sex and the City + Curb Your Enthusiasm = Yay TV.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

any uk types use webflix.co.uk?

seriously tempted by it as the rip off dvd rental place near me is 3 pounds a night!

― marcg (marcg), Saturday, 27 March 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

There's some Canadian versions, yay:

http://www.moviesforme.ca/?REFERER=affiliate238
http://www.nrexpress.ca
www.dvdflix.ca

I'm assuming the selections aren't going to be as good, though

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 27 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicheflix update:

Two more movies arrived today, again with only a two-day delay. Their main base of operations is in Indiana, as it turns out, so that's helpful.

Orgazmo also arrived today, after, what, nine days -- it was shipped with the initial movies, and judging from the packaging it was mishandled somehow; it's re-stamped "correction," with a March 29th postmark on top of the March 23rd one.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Queued up for my lonely weekend of temporary bachelordom:

Blade
Decasia
Beyond The Mat

And I'll try and make it to see Hellboy and The Return at the theater.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicheflix update again: unlike Netflix, they process and ship on Saturdays; but they have twice (out of six discs) lost a disc while mailing it to me, apparently because of mislabeling, which results in it being returned to them and then re-shipped (and in the meantime, I'm somewhat "paying" for the movie, by it taking up a slot in my queue).

But they're so fast otherwise that it seems worth it until I run out of region 1 movies I want to watch.

One of the unexpectedly nice things about them is that they have a lot of the Disney discs of shorts that Netflix doesn't or that are out of print -- the Complete Goofy, Mickey Mouse in Black and White, etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish they'd spell it "the compleat goofy"!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I tried five rental thingies -- Netflix, Nicheflix, Greencine, Yudoo, and Wal-Mart -- and compared them over the course of a month. It's inexact (and location has a different effect on each service), but since Netflix is raising their prices in a couple weeks, I thought it might be useful to see how they all measure up.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the generally accepted protocol for going into the family rental queue and removing your spouse's selections? I simply cannot accept the presence of Girl, Interrupted and Whale Rider in our list.

― tobo (tobo), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

divorce.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I rule over our list. She's going to hate me when we finally get Bring It On Again in the mail.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh, I want to see that one! Bree Turner from Deuce Bigelow (the aquarium girl) is in it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll let you know how it stands up.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just upped my membership to 5 movies at a time, but there is no end in sight for my queue. I wonder how long it will take me to watch all the movies I want to see.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

How much did that cost you, mary?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Blockbuster is doing a no late fees program now.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember, $30something?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i miss netflix

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I am done with the Whats Happening discs, I am kicking Netflix to THA CURB.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This is why we never see Mary.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary, you need to queue Cruel Intentions 3 - one of the stars is Jack from Dawson's Creek.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I signed up and have 80 films in my queue (including everything by Bergman). Now what??

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Just wait. You are about to be hit by a cinematic tsunami.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet! I wish I had more free time.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ME THREEES ;(

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i had more cream

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Question for a kindly Netflix user - do they have any of the "Treasures from American Film Archives" discs?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

NFLX was $35 not even 4 months ago... today <$10. analysts are saying it won't see half that for a long time with dwindling profits and increased competition.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

analysts!

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

In today's email:

Since our price increase in June, some of our members have expressed concerns about the new pricing. We've listened to this feedback and are pleased to inform you that we're lowering the price of your Netflix 3-at-a-time program from $21.99 per month to 17.99 per month.

Sounds like trouble a-brewin'.

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

And Blockbuster is lowering to $17.49/mo. in response...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon's service will be launching in a week or two.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

What of Nicheflix or Greencine? What of the little guy?

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon is going to have one too, oh my...

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying into the video-on-demand thing was a mistake I'm afraid.
Amazon's service will be something to see I'm sure.
Poor Netflix. I like them. They'll be around for a while longer I hope.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 25 October 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

11/30/04 12/10/04 Days of Being Wild (1991)
11/30/04 12/07/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 4: Vol. 2 (1994)
11/30/04 12/07/04 The Work of Director Spike Jonze (2003)
11/24/04 11/30/04 Ordinary People (1980)
11/23/04 11/30/04 Persona (1967)
11/22/04 11/30/04 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
11/18/04 11/24/04 California Split (1974)
11/16/04 11/23/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 4: Vol. 1 (1994)
11/16/04 11/22/04 The Birds (1963)
11/12/04 11/18/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 6 (1994)
11/11/04 11/16/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 5 (1994)
11/02/04 11/16/04 Shanghai Triad (1995)
11/09/04 11/12/04 Suture (1993)
11/05/04 11/11/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 4 (1994)
10/26/04 11/09/04 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
11/01/04 11/05/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 4 (1994)
10/20/04 11/02/04 The Man in the White Suit (1951)
10/26/04 11/01/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 3 (1994)
10/19/04 10/26/04 L.I.E. (2001)
10/19/04 10/26/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 2 (1994)
10/13/04 10/20/04 Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
08/03/04 10/19/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 3: Vol. 1 (1994)
10/14/04 10/19/04 Hell House (2001)
10/12/04 10/14/04 Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
10/07/04 10/13/04 Liberty Heights (1999)
10/07/04 10/12/04 Darkman (1990)
09/17/04 10/07/04 What Time is It There? (2001)
08/02/04 10/07/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 4 (1994)
08/05/04 09/17/04 Runaway Jury (2003)
07/27/04 08/05/04 Sling Blade (1996)
07/27/04 08/03/04 Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
07/26/04 08/02/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 3 (1993)
07/23/04 07/27/04 Law & Order: Season 1: Disc 1: Episodes 1-2 (1990)
06/10/04 07/27/04 Beau Travail (1999)
07/13/04 07/26/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 2 (1993)
07/20/04 07/23/04 Love Actually (2003)
06/22/04 07/20/04 Law & Order: Criminal Intent: The First Year: Disc 1 (2001)
06/16/04 07/13/04 Homicide: Life on the Street: Seasons 1 & 2: Vol. 1 (1993)
06/10/04 06/22/04 Blade 2 (2002)
06/10/04 06/16/04 Comedian (2002)
06/04/04 06/10/04 Oz: Season 1: Disc 3 (1997)
05/25/04 06/10/04 Oz: Season 1: Disc 1 (1997)
05/26/04 06/10/04 Oz: Season 1: Disc 2 (1997)
05/24/04 06/04/04 Pickup on South Street (1953)
05/03/04 05/26/04 The Lost Weekend (1945)
05/04/04 05/25/04 In This World (2003)
05/18/04 05/24/04 Cinemania (2002)
05/11/04 05/18/04 The Last Seduction (1994)
04/16/04 05/11/04 The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
04/15/04 05/04/04 The Ring (2002)
04/26/04 05/03/04 The School of Rock (2003)
04/15/04 04/26/04 Experiment in Terror (1962)
04/05/04 04/16/04 Blade (1998)
04/05/04 04/15/04 Decasia: The State of Decay (2004)
04/06/04 04/15/04 Beyond the Mat (2000)
03/29/04 04/06/04 Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
04/01/04 04/05/04 Purple Rain (1984)
03/23/04 04/05/04 Dummy (2003)
03/17/04 04/01/04 My Life Without Me (2003)
03/23/04 03/29/04 Moonlight Mile (2002)
03/16/04 03/23/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 4: Episode 13 & Bonus Features (2003)
03/16/04 03/23/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 3: Episodes 9-12 (2003)
03/01/04 03/17/04 Man on the Train (2002)
03/09/04 03/16/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 1: Episodes 1-4 (2003)
03/11/04 03/16/04 The Shield: Season 2: Disc 2: Episodes 5-8 (2003)
03/01/04 03/11/04 Thirteen (2003)
03/01/04 03/09/04 S.W.A.T. (2003)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You only rent Chiklis? I thought you embraced him to your bosom and never let him go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon's service will be launching in a week or two.
-- gygax! (gygax0...) (webmail), October 25th, 2004 4:10 PM. (gygax!) (link)

STILL WAITING

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Somehow my list is less impressive than I imagined it might be.

Also many rentals, including the execrable Ordinary People and Dummy, were not my choices.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh fine, blame it on your wife. Stand up and ADMIT IT LIKE A MAN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

okay

ORDINARY PEOPLE MADE ME CRY LIKE A BABY IN ONIONLAND

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Vidalias?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i gotta get on the cdn version of this. every video store in town has me marked for death.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 31 December 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

you had eyes like onions watching 'ordinary people'.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 January 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm using LoveFilm in the Uk, If anyone wants recommending, for 4 weeks free rentals for both of us, drop us a line.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 1 January 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finally joined NF a few weeks ago. I'm so hooked. It excites me just to go look at my queue and anticipate everything that will be coming. And it lets me actually watch the things I rent (something I don't always do when I rent things at the store and then have to rush them back to avoid late fees). Marvy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 1 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing that bums me out about Netflix is the fact that some movies ALWAYS seem to have a Long Wait or a Very Long Wait on my cue. I've been waiting for Infernal Affairs for eons now! Otherwise it's a great service.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

12/20/04 01/03/05 Alphaville (1965)
12/24/04 01/03/05 Talk to Her (2002)
12/20/04 12/30/04 Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
12/14/04 12/24/04 Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
12/16/04 12/20/04 MARS Dead or Alive: Nova (2004)
12/16/04 12/20/04 The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut (2004)
12/10/04 12/15/04 Downtown 81 (2001)
12/10/04 12/15/04 Hyperspace (2001)
12/08/04 12/13/04 The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003)
12/06/04 12/10/04 The Boondock Saints (1999)
12/06/04 12/10/04 The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
12/01/04 12/08/04 The Work of Director Spike Jonze (2003)
12/01/04 12/06/04 In the Mood for Love (2001)
11/24/04 12/06/04 The Prisoner: Disc 2 (1967)
11/26/04 12/01/04 The Piano Teacher (2002)
11/22/04 12/01/04 Baraka (1992)
11/22/04 11/26/04 The Hunting of the President (2004)
11/18/04 11/24/04 Audition (2000)
11/18/04 11/22/04 The Hole: 2000 Seen By ... (1998)
11/15/04 11/22/04 The Prisoner: Disc 1 (1967)
11/10/04 11/18/04 Waiting for Guffman (1996)
11/10/04 11/18/04 The Prisoner: Disc 1 (1967)
11/10/04 11/17/04 All About My Mother (1999)
11/03/04 11/10/04 THX 1138: Special Edition (1971)
11/01/04 11/10/04 The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
11/03/04 11/10/04 Mr. Show: Season 4: Disc 2 (1998)
10/27/04 11/03/04 Real Genius (1985)
10/28/04 11/03/04 Mr. Show: Season 4: Disc 1 (1998)
10/27/04 11/01/04 Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
10/22/04 10/28/04 Westworld (1973)
10/22/04 10/27/04 The Office: Series 1 (2001)
10/22/04 10/27/04 Repo Man (1984)

― Drake Beardoooo, Monday, 3 January 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

produced by freaks and geeks producer
directed by the director of the paris hilton sextape

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Netflix queue now available in RSS!

― J (Jay), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew is this embarrassing:

11/24/04 12/01/04 Wisconsin Death Trip (2001)
11/17/04 11/24/04 Andy Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood/My Breakfast with Blassie (1992)
11/11/04 11/17/04 The Who: The Kids Are Alright (1979)
10/14/04 11/11/04 Cowboy Bebop 6 (1999)
10/18/04 11/11/04 Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2002)
10/27/04 11/11/04 The Larry Sanders Show: Season 1: Disc 2 (1992)
10/05/04 10/27/04 The Apple (1980)
10/11/04 10/18/04 The Beatles Anthology: Bonus Disc (1995)
10/01/04 10/14/04 Cowboy Bebop 5 (1999)
09/30/04 10/11/04 Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
09/27/04 10/05/04 The Beatles Anthology: Disc 1 (1995)
08/11/04 09/30/04 Derrida (2002)
09/22/04 09/29/04 Jersey Girl (2004)
09/17/04 09/27/04 Cowboy Bebop 4 (1998)
08/16/04 09/22/04 The Larry Sanders Show: Season 1: Disc 1 (1992)
07/19/04 09/17/04 The Ipcress File (1965)
08/06/04 08/16/04 Cowboy Bebop 3 (2000)
07/15/04 08/10/04 Dead Like Me: Season 1: Disc 2 (2003)
07/21/04 08/06/04 Derrida (2002)
07/09/04 07/21/04 Cowboy Bebop 2 (1999)
07/09/04 07/16/04 Dead Like Me: Season 1: Disc 1 (2003)
07/06/04 07/15/04 Hell House (2001)
06/23/04 07/09/04 The Book of Life: 2000 Seen By... (1998)
05/24/04 07/09/04 Cowboy Bebop 1 (1998)
06/22/04 07/06/04 SCTV Network 90: Vol. 1: Disc 1 (1981)
04/22/04 06/22/04 Alias: Season 2: Disc 1 (2002)
04/26/04 06/22/04 Five Easy Pieces (1970)
04/29/04 05/24/04 South Park: Season 1: Disc 3 (1997)
04/15/04 04/29/04 South Park: Season 1: Disc 2 (1997)
03/31/04 04/26/04 Home Movie (2001)
03/04/04 04/22/04 Mulholland Drive (2001)
04/07/04 04/14/04 Alias: Season 1: Disc 6 (2001)
03/30/04 04/07/04 Alias: Season 1: Disc 5 (2001)
03/22/04 03/31/04 South Park: Season 1: Disc 1 (1997)
03/24/04 03/29/04 Alias: Season 1: Disc 3 (2001)
03/15/04 03/24/04 Trixie (2000)
02/27/04 03/19/04 Scratch (2002)
03/04/04 03/15/04 The Ben Stiller Show: Disc 1 (1992)
02/20/04 03/04/04 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1: Disc 4 (1987)
02/20/04 03/04/04 Henry & June (1990)
02/17/04 02/27/04 Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Vol. 1: Disc 1 (2000)
02/12/04 02/20/04 Comic Book: The Movie (2004)
02/11/04 02/20/04 The Tick: The Entire Series: Disc 2 (2001)
02/06/04 02/17/04 Lost in Translation (2003)
02/02/04 02/12/04 American Splendor (2003)
02/04/04 02/11/04 Schlock!: The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
01/22/04 02/06/04 The Tick: The Entire Series: Disc 1 (2001)
01/22/04 02/04/04 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1: Disc 3 (1987)
01/27/04 02/02/04 Private Parts (1997)
01/19/04 01/27/04 Directed by Alan Smithee (2002)
01/07/04 01/22/04 Bad Taste (1988)
01/12/04 01/22/04 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1: Disc 2 (1987)
12/30/03 01/19/04 Spirited Away (2002)
01/05/04 01/12/04 The Unreal Story of Pro Wrestling (1998)
12/30/03 01/07/04 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1: Disc 1 (1987)
12/30/03 01/05/04 Comic Book Villains (2002)

― J (Jay), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What did you think of Wisconsin Death Trip?

You like comics.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i just upgraded to the five at once program even though i only end up watching about half of what i get. i am an impatient motherfucker.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I did the same thing, but I've found that I increase my moviewatching to match the amount they send haha. I get and watch between 6 and 9 movies a week which I think is worth the money I give them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Here are my flicks from 9/30/04 to 12/28/04:

God Told Me To (1976)
Victim (1961)
Pale Flower (1964)
Bloody Territories (1969)
Two English Girls (1971)
The Shooting (1967)
Cure (1997)
Treasures of the Twilight Zone (1964)
I'm Not Scared (2003)
Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven (1964)
Smiley's People: Disc 3 (1982)
California Split (1974)
Smiley's People: Disc 2 (1982)
Smiley's People: Disc 1 (1982)
The Yakuza Papers: Disc 4: Police Tactics (1973)
The Yakuza Papers: Disc 5: Final Episode (1973)
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
The Yakuza Papers: Disc 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
The Yakuza Papers: Disc 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
The Yakuza Papers: Disc 3: Proxy War (1973)
Sweet Charity (1969)
Bone (1972)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Baadasssss! (2004)
Taboo (1999)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Disc 2 (1980)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Disc 3 (1980)
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Disc 1 (1980)
The Last Detail (1973)
One Eyed Jacks (1961)
Zatoichi (2003)
Before Sunset (2004)
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Rockers (2000)
The Clearing (2004)
The Office Special (2001)
Film Noir Collection: The Stranger (1946)
A Better Tomorrow III (1990)
Breaking Away (1979)
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
All Creatures Great and Small: Series 4: Disc 3 (1988)
Nine Queens (2000)
Sanjuro (1962)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
All Creatures Great and Small: Series 4: Disc 2 (1988)
Control Room (2004)
The Border (1982)
The Mechanic (1972)
Street Mobster (1972)
The Tenant (1976)
Odessa File (1974)
All Creatures Great and Small: Series 4: Disc 1 (1988)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Payment in Blood (2002)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Tattooed Life (1965)
Foyle's War: Set 2: Disc 4 (2003)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well-Schooled in Murder (2002)
Solaris (2002)
Foyle's War: Series 1: Disc 4: Eagle Day (2003)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: I Accuse My Parents (1993)
Branded to Kill (1967)
Walking Tall: The Final Chapter (1977)
Black Mama, White Mama (1972)
Foyle's War: Series 1: Disc 3: A Lesson in Murder (2003)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: For the Sake of Elena (2002)
Walking Tall: Part II (1975)
Foyle's War: Series 1: Disc 2: The White Feather (2003)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
Life and Debt (2001)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Missing Joseph (2002)
Foyle's War: Series 1: Disc 1: The German Woman (2003)
Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion (1972)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What did you think of

Cure?
California Split?
Nine Queens?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

california split i loved, even though i can hardly remember a single scene. just hypnotic and typical greatness from segal and gould. you'd love it, adam.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked The Cure, but not as much as Suicide Club which I thought it was kind of similar to. California Split was terrible (I don't know why I rented it actually, I hate Elliot Gould and George Segal, but I'd heard it was good. . .) Nine Queens was quite good actually, esp. if you like heist/sting flicks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

alex i still luv u

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just glad Adam got a clear answer haha

― Alex Luvs U 2 (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen (and enjoyed) all three movies. Watching Life Aquatic, it occurred to me that I'd like to see a pairing of the aging Gould and Goldblum.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW if I had to pick ten from this list that should be rented, I'd pick these TEN!

Victim
Pale Flower
The Yakuza Papers
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Rockers
Blackmail Is My Life
Sanjuro
Street Mobster
The Tenant
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Rockers and The Tenant.

My friend Ben is obsessed with Rockers. I have seen it maybe 4 or 5 times, all at his apartment, always high and at about 2 o'clock in the morning.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd actually never seen The Rockers. I'd always dismissed cuz of vague Santa Cruz anti-hippy white guy with dreadlock prejudice when I was younger (not that I can fucking talk now, I probably own more roots reggae than all those stoners now.) I felt really stupid cuz it's really really good.

If you haven't seen the other eight movies on there I recommend renting them in this order:

(Tied) The Yakuza Papers
(Tied) The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Blackmail Is My Life
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Street Mobster
Sanjuro
Victim
Pale Flower

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I've signed up!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Just wait. You are about to be hit by a cinematic tsunami.
-- adam.

I can't tell you how much I regret saying this now.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

We signed up for lovefilm last month and although I love it, the rental queue has become a weird relationship battleground ie. one of us will add something the other one hates, who will then move it to the bottom of the queue, whereupon the other will retaliate etc.

And fuck knows what's on there right now as we usually go online to update it when drunk. Let's see shall we:

1 Grass
2 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 2)
3 Sliders - Season 1 And Season 2
5 Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
6 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 3)
7 Bill Hicks - One Night Stand
8 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 4)
9 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter And Spring
10 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 5)
11 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 6)
12 Star Trek - The Next Generation Season 3 (Disc 2)
13 Star Trek - The Next Generation Season 3 (Disc 4)
14 Shaolin And Wu Tang
15 Wu-Tang Clan - Disciples Of The 36th Chambers
16 The Sicilian
17 Wu Tang - Shaolin Drunkard
18 Wu-Tang Clan Presents Old Skool Kung Fu
19 The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
20 Rumpole Of The Bailey - The Specials (Disc 2)
21 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
22 Chris Rock - Bigger And Blacker
23 Hoop Dreams
24 Stones Throw 101
25 Seven Samurai
26 Hidden Fortress
27 Curtis Mayfield - Montreux 1987
28 Sizzla - Blazing The Fire
29 Wild Style
30 Hip Hop Time Capsule
31 The Mills Brothers Story
32 Festen (The Celebration)
33 Anne Of Green Gables
34 Anne Of Green Gables - The Sequel
35 Big Trouble
36 Mumford
37 Innerspace
38 The Three Amigos
39 Le Nozze Di Figaro - Glyndebourne
40 Gang Law
41 Old School
42 The Water Margin - Vol. 1
43 The Way Of The Dragon
44 Wife Swap (Disc 1)
45 Ever Decreasing Circles
46 The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete First Series
47 Mush Tour - Spring 2002
48 A Touch Of Zen
52 Eddie Murphy - The Best Of Saturday Night Live
53 Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait (Disc 2)
54 Spike Lee - Clockers/Jungle Fever/Do The Right Thing (Disc 3)
55 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Collector's Edition)
56 Dog Eat Dog
57 Osmosis Jones
58 Kal Ho Naa Ho
59 Seinfeld - Season 3 (Disc 1)
60 Broken Blossoms (Silent)
61 Quantum Leap - Season 1 (Disc 2)
62 Quantum Leap - Season 1 (Disc 3)
63 Repo Man
65 Airheads
66 Cool And Crazy
69 8 Masters / Blazing Temple
70 Goodfellas (Disc 2)
71 Alice In Wonderland
72 The Best Of Cook And Moore
73 Derek And Clive Get The Horn
74 The Hound Of The Baskervilles
75 Spaced (Definitive Collector's Edition) (Disc 1)
76 Spaced (Definitive Collector's Edition) (Disc 2)
77 Spaced (Definitive Collector\'s Edition) (Disc 3)
78 Big Train (Disc 1)
79 Big Train (Disc 2)
80 A Tribe Called Quest - Anthology
81 Frank Zappa - Does Humour Belong In Music ?
82 Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
83 Kill Bill - Vol. 1

Crap, that's long. Sorry.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd watch everything on that list. Apart from Sliders, maybe.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Come round!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! A Not Watching Sliders party!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just joined LoveFilm and a frustrating number of films on this thread are not available. Anyway here's my queue.

1 Along Came Polly
2 About Schmidt
3 Manhattan
4 Audition
5 The Magnificent Butcher
6 Actor's Revenge, An
7 A Better Tomorrow (Disc 1)
8 The Tin Drum
9 The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
10 Game Over: Kasparov And The Machine Buy now
11 Jean Renoir Box Set (Disc 2)
12 Aguirre Wrath of God
13 Fitzcarraldo
14 Storytelling
15 Das Experiment
16 The Fog Of War
17 Monsters Inc
18 Shrek 2
19 Tetsuo - The Iron Man
20 Fahrenheit 451
21 Jules Et Jim
22 The Cabinat Of Dr. Caligari (Silent)
23 Three Colours Blue
24 Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
25 A Room for Romeo Brass
26 Gosford Park
27 Some Like It Hot
28 The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
29 Zatoichi
30 Kiki's Delivery Service
31 The Motorcycle Diaries
32 Hidden Fortress

― holojames (holojames), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

my first three movies came! I got

Divine Trash
The Long Good Friday
The Apple

Can't Stop the Music is next!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 January 2005 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Teh sadness of Netflix is that, like everyone else in the universe, they do not have Plunkett & MacLeane available. Fuck it.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM SIGNING UP FOR THE ZIP DOT CA RIGHT NOW!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate the 500 film queue limit on netflix.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I just sent back What Time Is It There? Next up: Before Sunset and Umbrellas of Cherbourg. I love love love it...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Long Good Friday

Yay!!!!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had all three discs of the Decalogue for like 2 months.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Send them back! They're like 15-17 in my queue.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://stoptherobots.com/images/film/11.JPG

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm, Catherine Deneuve

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.netflix.com/FriendPage

anybody want to be my netflix friend? send me and invite to jeff@gerousia.com

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 9 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The last three movies I've rented from the store down the block have all accrued late fees because I didn't have time to watch them within the tiny window they give me.

So I'm starting to consider Netflix. In the past, my problem was that I don't watch enough DVDs to justify a $17.99 per month fee (lately, it's been only a couple a month). But then I realized that if I was getting movies delivered to my doorstep all the time then I'd totally make time to watch 'em. The selection is pretty exciting, too. Should I take the plunge?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. you want to.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know why I even asked. I just signed up, heh. They don't have After Life (the 1998 Japanese film), though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

They are not good with Japan (or Argentina)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Argentina?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

They have Nine Queens.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Thing about Netflix is it'll probably make me want to actually buy a DVD player. And a bigger TV.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

okay well just don't bother and CRAWL INTO A HOLE!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Send them back! They're like 15-17 in my queue.

Done.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, there's a friend list? Who wants to be my friend?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

How skippy do y'all discs get? Night of the Hunter froze at the most inopportune moment--then refused to play scens 13-20. Things like this happen a lot.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I lot of mine skip, but that's mainly because I have a sony dvd player from 5 years ago, that is known for skipping in it's old age. Just ordered a new player this week. It's unlockable too for region free play!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Just signed up. I can almost justify the $$ since we do about 3 movies a week and the selection is really good.
In My Queue:
The Warriors
Shaun of the Dead
Rollerball (1975) Stores around here only have the 2002 remake
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Clerks: First Cut (Not Theatrical Version)
Bad Taste
Greaser's Palace (They dont have Putney Swope!!??)
Mother, Jugs and Speed
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 1: Vol. 1
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 1: Vol. 2
Bottom: Disc 1
Bottom: Disc 2
Bottom: Disc 3
Two-Lane Blacktop
Blood Simple
Forgotten Silver
Undercover Brother
Dolemite
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I have had the same 3 movies for almost 3 months now. I really need to remember to bring (2 of) them to the mailbox.

Also, word of warning - do NOT rent Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time unless you want to either gouge your eyes out or gather a bunch of peeps & mock it mercilessly. It's like the DVD manufacturer burned a VHS copy straight to disc, and then used some shit-ass program to create the shape-shifting subtitle bar that sometimes fails to block the subtitles of the version they taped! And don't even get me started on the grammar, the spelling mistakes, the lack of synchronicity between the text & what's happeningm THE "(7)" THAT POPS UP HALF-WAY THROUGH. Holy fucking fuck.

(Also: if you've been wanting to see Visitor Q or The Believer or Frida & haven't gotten your copy yet, I apologize.) (BTW, don't hold your breath for Visitor Q - this is my 2nd attempt @ renting it; #1 was so scratched, the movie died 20 minutes before the end, & #2 was CRACKED.) Despite the problems detailed above, I love Netflix like a dirty hippie. Whether I'm the hippie or Netflix is, I'll let you decide.

Bryan G! Watch out for the ending of Clerks! & if Forgotten Silver is the Peter Jackson "documentary", enjoy!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Just sent back:
Bloodsucking Freaks
Othello
The Third Man
Velvet Goldmine

Currently have:
Twentynine Palms
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I Am Cuba
My Life to Live
The Brood

Next handful in queue:
Fallen Angels
Branded to Kill
Tokyo Drifter
Fela in Concert
Il Grido
Salvatore Giuliano
Ikiru
The Shop on Main Street
Soldier of Orange
Early Summer
The Brother From Another Planet
Frenzy
Shadow of a Doubt
Horror Hospital
Mystery Train
Before Sunrise
Chloe in the Afternoon
Fear of Fear

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My daughter has highjacked our Netflix queue and loaded it up with anime. Frowny emoticon!

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a way to just see an alphabetical listing of all the movies Netflix has available? Instead of having to pick a genre and then looking through the Featured selections and the Critics Picks and Top 25 and all that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh never mind, I guess I can "sort by title" within the genre, that's not too bad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It has a better selection than 85% of video stores could hope for.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Puhtittle: the Apted Up series was already high on my queue before I saw that you'd seen it recently. Nice. I'm excited.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's good, it'll teach you how to teach you how to speak like a toffee-nosed British child, like me!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I READ THE FINANCIAL TIMES

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I read the Observer and THE TIMES.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I loved the up series, but I watched them all in 2 days, so I got real tired of the recapping after awhile. I could almost recite 7 up from memory. 49 Up is scheduled for this year, if any of those crappy fucks want to be interviewed again.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Wot I Watched:

All About Eve (1950)
Making the Misfits (2001)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Marilyn Monroe: Memories & Mysteries / Hometown Story (1951)
Love Nest (1951)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (2002)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Niagara (1953)
Speedway (1968)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
From the Terrace (1960)
Serial Mom (1995)
The Men (1950)
Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
JFK: Special Edition (1991)
The Misfits (1961)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Wild One (1955)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
U.K. Subs: Punk Can Take It (1979)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Iceman Cometh: Disc 2 (1973)
Jubilee (1977)
Music Hall Days (2004)
Classic Albums: Elvis Presley (1956)
Depeche Mode: The Videos '86-'98: Disc 2 (1998)
The Iceman Cometh: Disc 1 (1973)
King Creole (1958)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Fabulous '50s (2002)
Absolute Beginners (1986)
Elvis '56 (1987)
Gerry (2002)
Pet Shop Boys: Somewhere (2000)
The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film (2000)
Depeche Mode: The Videos '86-'98: Disc 1 (1998)
Intimacy (2001)
Bartleby (2002)
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
New Order: 316 (1981)
The Cure: Trilogy: Disc 2 (2002)
The Cure: Trilogy: Disc 1 (2002)
Death in Venice (1971)
The Cramps: Live at Napa State Metal Hospital (1981)
Night Flight from Moscow (1972)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Bullitt (1968)
King and Country (1964)
Romper Stomper (1992)
Alice Adams (1935)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
I Could Go On Singing (1963)
Giant (1956)
Night Porter (1974)
The Collector (1965)
The Damned (1969)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

after a long period of being anti-netflix (made easier by my former roommate being a member, so i could still enjoy the fruit while cursing the tree), i've been doing it for a bit over a month now and am enjoying it greatly. did "netflix friends" get noted elsewhere? you can see how other people you know on the system ranked movies, and see the last things they've watched. too fancy.

here's what i've returned so far:

Irma Vep, 1996
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, 2004
My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski, 1999
Beau Travail, 1999
Schizopolis, 1996
Underground, 1995
Days of Being Wild, 1991
The Iron Giant: Special Edition, 1999
Election, 1999
Arrested Development: Season 1: Discs 1-3

― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Bigpond Movies are the aussie version of Netflix. Here's my queue, primarily a ploy to turn my girlfriend into a geeky geek nerd fangirl.

American Splendor (M)

Barton Fink (M)

Buena Vista Social Club (G)

The City Of Lost Children (Citi des enfants perdus) (M)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 1 (G)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 2 (G)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 3 (G)

Delicatessen (M)

The Devil's Backbone (MA)

Dodgeball (M)

Down From The Mountain

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Disc 1 (M)

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Disc 2 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 1 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 2 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 3 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 4 (M)

Gangs of New York (MA)

Gangs of New York - Bonus Disc (MA)

Ghost Dog - Way Of The Samurai (MA)

Laputa - Castle In The Sky (G)

Miller's Crossing (M)

Princess Mononoke (M)

Queen of the Damned (M)

Shaolin Soccer (PG)

Time Bandits (PG)

Ultraviolet - Disc 1 (MA)

Ultraviolet - Disc 2 (MA)

The Untouchables (M)

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so against the idea of rating movies, and I feel like I'm being bullied into it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and also, Napoleon Dynamite won't play in my computer. It's not fucked up or scratched or anything like that -- but my computer thinks it's a blank DVD for some reason. I have no idea whose fault this is, but I'm wondering if this is grounds for getting a replacement. If so, what do I say? (It doesn't fit into the categories of scratch/skip/broken.) Also, could it have anything to do with the fact that it's a double-sided DVD (to my knowledge, I've never played one before)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if you tell them it's skipping they'll just send you another one, no big deal. i'm sure they'll check it first or run it through the cleaner before they throw it out, and so as long as you don't send too many back you'll have no problems with netflix & your karmic balance won't take too big a hit.

but if it's some weird conflict you have with the disc assembly, you're probably screwed either way, which is possible. e.g. my dvd/cdr combo drive refuses to recognize SACD hybrid music discs.

― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i signed up to lovefilm. i watched peeping tom last night, it was great

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It is, isn't it. They did a revival in the US a couple of years back. I quite liked it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone use Blockbuster Online recently? I just browsed their selection online, and it seems like they have a lot of films that Netflix doesn't carry. I don't know if they're just there on the site and never actually in stock, though. Cuz if they have comparable speed to Netflix and better selection and prices, I'd be tempted to switch.

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Thursday, 10 February 2005 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck blockbuster!! they cut their movies!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 10 February 2005 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I need more Netflix friends, this is fun!
ANYONE?

I give all Bond movies at least four stars!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't be his friend! He'll recommend you watch HEAT!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha!

What's really funny is that I have been rating all these films that I haven't seen since I was a kid.

"Adventures In Babysitting? That was AMAZING!"

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You can be my Netflix friend, Adam! But I don't rate any movies! EVER!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

DUMBO GETS FIVE STARS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome film. Very sad, too.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

If you snub Pinnochio. . .

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My rules for netflix ratings:

1) Any Bond film gets at least four stars
2) Any film with Kirsten Dunst in it, even in a minor role, gets at least three stars, usually four
3) Most critically applauded debuts by young directors get less than three stars
4) Any film set or shot in the Bay Area gets at least three stars (except Patch Adams)
5) All Woody Allen films made before 1999 get at least four stars
6) Any movie about cheerleaders or girls in a band or girl surfers or evil girl neighbors/babysitters gets at least four stars
7) Most golden age Disney films get at least four stars
8) Any 80s film about gadgets or robots gets at least four stars
9) I don't rate friends or sex and the city DVDs
10) No Steven Soderbergh film gets more than two stars (maybe)

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Short Circuit 2 gets FOUR stars!!?!? WHY?!?!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's about a robot.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I have two new friends! More please!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

how do we become netflix friends?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

you invite me with this address or I invite you with your address! Please be my friend!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam I can't believe you think Punch Drunk Love is even GOOD let alone better than Time Bandits!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i sent you a friend request adam.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I got it, Sam!

Maybe I am rating these things too fast. Punch Drunk Love should be a 3.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, an ADAM SANDLER film better than Time Bandits. I slay you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wedding Singer was even better. But I like Punch Drunk Love mostly for the Jeremy Balke visuals and the first ten minutes.

IS THAT A CRIME?

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Blake

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam -- I am serious. I will not rate any movies. I have trouble evaluating things all willy-nilly-like. If I started, I would obsess about it way too much, and I would cry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i always end up going back about 6 months later and lowering every rating a star or so. it's kind of depressing really.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"IS THAT A CRIME?"

YES!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc, why does it look like you haven't ever rented anything?

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I invited you too, other Adam!

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

cool!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I loves these friend quizzes!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have time to watch movies!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, is it supposed to show you every movie I've seen, or only those that I've rated?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

OH NO! It shows people when you pick "not interested"? I have been using that for movies I am interested in, but haven't seen and don't feel like adding to my list! Flawed!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

adam you can use my email address to add me.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yay!!! i got the quiz about adam right!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a quiz about Sam right and a quiz about you right and a quiz about ALex right.

I am feeling that Adam in NO and Jeff PTTL and I will be agreeing on a lot in future. Great picks, guys!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to catch up with Jeff's quota of Herzog movies!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

And next time I see Alex in SF I will attempt to cleanse his soul of a million bad kung fu movies.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha what bad kung fu movies!?!?!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the spirit!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, I hope your girlfriend likes Jackie Chan. Otherwise I feel sorry for her.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel so validated that Adam L one-starred Lost In Translation too. More friends pls!

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Movies Rosemary and I both hated:

Snatch, High Fidelity, Scream

Movies adam and I both hated:

Mystic River, American Beauty, Lost In Translation, Gangs of New York

Movie Alex and I both hated:

Legend (!), Enemy At The Gates, Eyes Wide Shut, Changing Lanes

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam and I both hated Garden State.

Cprek and I both hated Garden State, Uncle Buck, Steel Magnolias and ARmageddon.

FUN!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jeez, I hope your girlfriend likes Jackie Chan. Otherwise I feel sorry for her."

Are you hating on Jackie Chan? WTF is wrong with you?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I like him really.

Sarah thinks he is "sweet"!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I have seen a Jackie Chan movie for over 10 years.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't see the last couple of Hollywood ones. I liked the Owen WIlson ones though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I CAN'T STOP RATING MOVIES

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I am searching for actors I hate and systematically hating out their entire catalog.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've reached my first snag though.. Macaulay Culkin is in Rocket Gibraltar, which has a Viking funeral. I have to split the difference.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone seen Get Over It or Wimbledon?

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

God, when you spend 24hrs rating 1400 movies you relize how much of the DVD market is just tv franchises of Highlander/Dune and ultra- conservative stand-up comedians.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah there is a LOT of TV out there on DVD. It's kind of depressing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Both Adventures in Babysitting and Short Circuit 2 deserve 4 stars, maybe 5 (if there is a fifth star option). Adam is really, REALLY SMART Y'ALL.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

WAIT A SEC, YOU HATED UNCLE BUCK????

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god yes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Has Adam broken Netflix by overloading it's ratings matrix????

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Netflix Site Error

Sorry, a problem has occurred with the Netflix site.

If you continue to have trouble with the site, you can notify us of this Site Error.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I rated almost 2000 movies in 2 days.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

And you are STILL behind me MWAHAHAHA.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

have some humility!

― just adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha "eat my dust".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://heat.iwarp.com/Sounds/greatass.wav

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.fortunecity.com/filmcity/heat/greatass.wav

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 March 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Get Over It is totally gr8! Wimbleton I found adorable despite myself.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 17 March 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sterling you must recommend me some movies.

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

On a whim last night I upgraded my queue to six. Will this eliminate mail delay issues like I hope? I figure with six I can spread the mailing and returns to insure I have a DVD available any given night.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

My queue is five. I still have lags occassionally though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The not shipping on Saturdays usually means that by Monday night I am out of stuff to watch now matter how you shake it (plus three day weekends, ack!)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

QUESTIONS FOR MY NETFLIX FRIENDS:

JEFF PTTL : SO YOU REALLY HATED LILLY CHOU CHOU, HUH?
CPREK: WHAT IS ECTASY OF THE ANGELS? LOOKS INTERESTING
ALEX IN SAN FRANCICO: WHAT IS YOUTH OF THE BEAST? IT SOUNDS GOOD BUT I DON'T REALLY TRUST IT/YOU

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i had netflix friends! :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Youth of the Beast is another Yakuza film. It's good if you like Yakuza films. If you don't stick with the crap you normally watch. ;)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I love this review of Ecstacy of the Angels though:

"I really could not follow this film until I played it on fast forward (X2 is perfect). It just takes so long for anything to happen, seriously, I wouldn't have been able to watch the entire film without fast forward."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Youth Of The Beast: "ANOTHER Yakuza film"

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Youth of the Beast: So much better than the ending of Heat it is not even funny.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex in SF loves to have the last word, he should post here!

-- Poundstretcher (adamr...), March 30th, 2005.

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Except I didn't so there nah nah nah nah!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

( Is ":)" a word?)

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but this is :P

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

How long is the wait on most Criterion releases? (I'm thinking about selling all of my semi-valuable DVDs and just getting a Netflix/Greencine account. Do I really need to own Withnail & I and My Life As A Dog?)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Both are available NOW!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

you don't need either of those films, milozauckerman!

BY THE WAY, Reel Video in Berkeley (the best video store in the WORLD) is having a huge sale of it's old VHS stock this weekend. They have loads of out of print and rare stuff. I will be there at 9am with all the other nerds!

― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Ecstasy of the Angels is a Koji Wakamatsu movie about a group of leftist Japanese student guerillas. They are all named after months and days of the week. I think there was a Yakuza connection too, but I was distracted.

The movie is OK, but it's worth queuing up just for the bonus interview with Wakamatsu. "Go! Go! Second Time Virgin" has the same bonus interview with much more violence and sexual assault in the actual movie.

Youth of the Beast was added to my queue today.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

I want to see the other Suzuki film that came out w/ Youth of the Beast - Fighting Elegy. Teen drama >>> yakuza films

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

They're quick about the Criterion...I've watched a slough of those since we've had Netflix for about two years now.

Do I really need to own Withnail & I
Fuck, if I had the money right now I'd buy it from you. My mother and I want to own it...we could watch it again and again.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

I really like Tokyo Drifter, but did't care for Branded to Kill. The color composition in the former was fantastic. It makes me not want to bother with any black and white Suzuki movies.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I really did hate All About Lily Chou Chou. I wanted it to be more about Lily Chou Chou and cute little Japanese kids fascinations with her, instead of this one kid going on vacation and then becoming a sadistic pimp. I wanted something more along the lines of Perfect Blue.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

The new friends features have made Netflix even more tantalizingly voyeuristic!

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Netflix has added Two-Lane Blacktop (OOP), Eraserhead and now has Lilya 4-Ever before it gets a regular R1 release.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

still no Dobie Gillis(or Tillsammans for that matter), nuts to that.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Dear Netflix,

Thank you for waiting until I received the first disc of the Human Condition trilogy before bumping the second disc down to the "save" ghetto of the queue.

Love, Eric

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Which brings me to this query: Has anyone ever actually received a disc that consistently showed up as "Long Wait" or "Very Long Wait"? As far as I've been able to tell, whenever either of these two designations show up next to a film, it's only been a matter of time before they get removed from Netflix circulation.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Little Otik was "Long Wait," but eventually showed up.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Netflix has Wong Kar Wai's "2046" and "Fugazi: Instrument" now. Still none of the Criterion Cassavetes box though. Wah.

― Chris L, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Milo, make sure it's not the *new* Two Lane Blacktop starring Aragorn.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Also, word of warning - do NOT rent Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time unless you want to either gouge your eyes out or gather a bunch of peeps & mock it mercilessly. It's like the DVD manufacturer burned a VHS copy straight to disc, and then used some shit-ass program to create the shape-shifting subtitle bar that sometimes fails to block the subtitles of the version they taped! And don't even get me started on the grammar, the spelling mistakes, the lack of synchronicity between the text & what's happeningm THE "(7)" THAT POPS UP HALF-WAY THROUGH. Holy fucking fuck.

doh. it just shipped

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

It was definitely the old one.

A Two-Lane Blacktop REMAKE?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Still no Criterion Wajda box set, either.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Dear Netflix,

Which is it with Cockfighter: "Now" or "Very Long Wait"?! And why didn't you goddamned send it the evening it was "Now" instead of the ones below it?

Stop toying with me, Netflix.

Love, Eric

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

It was in the "Save" ghetto for months. When a release date was announced, I moved it to the top of my queue. And at the top it stayed, even through the two weeks the release date was pushed back. I have your six DVD plan. And yet you taunt me by progressing "Tetsuo: Iron Man" from "Now" to "Short Wait" to "Very Long Wait".

Fuck you Netflix. Where is the love?

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I finally got Cockfighter, fwiw... copied it too so I can watch it whenever I damned well please. I intend to hold out as long as Netflix held out on me.

Meanwhile, if you haven't added this to your queue, do so immediately.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

People who bitch about Netflix's selection and very occasionally slow service should remember that they went up against Wal-Mart and won, and that Amazon canned their plans for a similar service, both realizing that selection matters and that getting the kind of selection Netflix maintains is damned expensive.

I think Netflix is fucking great. Now that Ally's here manning the queue and she's got her 5-DVD plan I'm getting this great education in toughguy cinema without even trying.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm very happy with Netlix. I'm on a schedule of 3 DVDs a week, which I usually don't get to until the weekend, so it suits me fine.

― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I am still kind of crabby about it, but it's too much trouble to switch for now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I keep hearing that Netflix has no hope of ever breathing the rarified air of "in the black," though.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I am also delighted that there will finally be domestic DVD releases for Brown Bunny and Los Angeles Plays Itself!

― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I have also BROKEN, SNAPPED IN HALF, TWO DVDs and nothing was said! That would support Eric's theory, I think.

― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I could conceivably be talked into selling my copy of Tetsuo Iron Man but I tossed the box just yesterday after stowing our entire DVD collection sans nicely packaged box sets into Case Logic binders. They look much better on the bookshelf that way!

xpost to Eric H. - NetFlix is actually making money, but spending the profit on marketing. Motley Fool has a post which gets heavy into the math on this, but essentially they're still trying to find the optimum speed for subscriber growth vs. churn. They've chosen growth over profitability at this point, just like Amazon did, and so far it's working. Essentially, once they're comfortable that their brand and their service is a household name nationwide, they can drop their marketing+growth budget significantly and start rolling around in the dough. That's why the stock is still hot.

Netflix Q1 2005 report

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I am also delighted that there will finally be domestic DVD releases for Brown Bunny and Los Angeles Plays Itself!

Those are both on my wait list!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

So they should be.

I'll be sure to add Netflix to my portfolio, Tom.

― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Tom, does GWU's film department need a teacher for their "Toughguy Cinema" series?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

fwiw I'm absolutely enamored with Netflix and any complaint I may have is like complaining about a lover's insignificant irritating quirk. "Word Wars" has arrived! Let's never fight again!

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Thanks tombot... Interesting, though I still suspect they artificially slow down the rapidity of their deliveries to high traffic renters like... um, this guy I know who, um, boo-urns more than he watches... anyway!

I don't actually think the fact that Los Angeles Plays Itself has a "save" page up on Netflix means its going to get a DVD release... Shinji Aoyama's Eureka has been up on Netflix forever without any substantial whispered rumors of R1 DVD release.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

netflix is a godsend. all i have locally is hollywood/blockbuster, neither of which have anything i want, ever.

― sleep can't log in, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I like Netflix, but I have also been supplementing with the local libraries' collections. I like them better for TV series, as I get all the discs at once. (and also the free factor)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I want more netflix friends -

eric and ally and tom and n/a and anyone else - add me!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I WILL BE WATCHING YOU

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

cprek and I both have the same movie out!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

We just signed back up, after a 2 year hiatus. The last time, we ended up with 3 depressing/bleak discs sitting accusingly on the table. We weren't in the mood to watch them (for months), but also couldn't bear to return them unwatched. Finally, we moved and it was a relief to send them back.

― Jaq (who is not a balding Frenchman) (Jaq), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Movies I have returned without watching all the way through

Crimson Gold
Beau Travail
No Man's Land (because I snapped it in half)

I will get back to all three sometime.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I have been thinking about getting Netflix, but I'm afraid our dog will eat the dvds since he attacks any mail that comes in through the mail slot on our front door.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

adam all of thsoe are great great films!!!!

i am halfway thru "george washington" and am tempted just to send it back...i just cant really hack trying to get back into it.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I want to add Adam and peer into his soul.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I've been halfway through Eraserhead for a week. I keep getting sleepy about 45 minutes in, maybe I need to try watching before midnight.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I just watched Overnight and it was brutal.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I want more Netflix friends too! Adam, I don't know you from Adam, but I'll happily send you an invite.

My At Home Now list:
Once Upon a Time in China
Cold Comfort Farm
Cocteau's Orpheus

Next up:
Anchorman
Cocteau's Testament of Orpheus
Diary of a Chambermaid

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Add me, then!

George Washington is great.

Yeah, I'm sure those are good films. I'll get back to them.

add me, Milo!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Dean Gulberry sez about the friends option "It's a great, free new feature from Netflix that gives us both yet another way to discover great movies".

Tell us more, Dean!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

OMG don't watch Starksy and Hutch!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

OK!!!!

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Like, I'm doing you a favo(u)r. It's really not good in a whole new way!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of fun to hate.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Invitation on its way...

I like George Washington a lot. DGG's best so far (although Undertow was underrated, lots of good stuff in that).

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Adam, our netflix list isn't that interesting. It's just all of the Homicide: Life on the Streets episodes, at least through season 6.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

gypsy, I accepted your invite but you're not showing up!

xp Kittens, mine was like that too! Now I finished Season 5, I am on to other things. Alex In SF's list looks like that and he is still my netflix and real life friend!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

At home:

1 The Brown Bunny
2 Scum (Theatrical Version)
3 My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski

Top of list:

Morgan!
Dog Soldiers
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Dean, your list is interesting but it sort of makes me feel ill. Will you really have enough time to watch all of that Dougie Howser?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

It's just a collection of things I'd like to see, Adam. It's not my FOUR YEAR PLAN FOR DVD RENTAL.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand. Why would you do that? That's crazy.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

crazy

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

It still says "waiting for reply"...the system is probably poxy fuled for the moment. I need to add The Brown Bunny. I forgot that had come out.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

You're saying I shouldn't rely on this list? That it is not an accurate picture of anything?

Why would you do that?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

2031 rated movies, eh? Have you been outside, Adam?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Top of Adam's Queue:

Made in Britain (1982)

Trevor (Tim Roth) is a teenage Skinhead. Caught smashing the windows of a Pakistani-owned shop, he's sent to an assessment center by social worker Harry (Eric Richard), who discovers that Trevor is highly articulate and intelligent. But when he escapes, steals cars and goes berserk, can Harry still save him? Alan Clarke directs this made-for-TV movie, which marks Roth's screen debut.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I was having a rating race with Alex in SF. He is up to 2337, but he is on 5 movies at a time.

xp yeah! wicked

I'm on a BIG Alan Clarke trip at the moment.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Adam what movie do we have out?

I want more Netflix friends too. it's "chris@..."

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Scum (Theatrical Version) (1979)

Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary reform school. It tells the life in an institution run by violence and brutality rather than reason, where the boy who can fight his way to the top of the heap and reign as "daddy" will gain the respect of the inmates and screws alike. Ray Winstone stars as Carlin, the one man prepared to struggle against all odds to be top dog in a system intent on breaking him.

xp My best fiend!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Netflix keeps recommending Highlander movies/TV shows. I don't know why.

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone Netflix friends with Netflix critic James Rocchi?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

http://cdn.nflximg.com/us/pages/community/inlineOpenQuote.gifOne of the best films ever made about ENGLAND.http://cdn.nflximg.com/us/pages/community/inlineCloseQuote.gif http://cdn.nflximg.com/us/pages/widget/stars_14_50.gif

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

ROBINSON IN SPACE!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Dean Gulberry's UNIQUE FAVORITES

Jackass:The Movie
Mr. Show
Big
Teen Wolf

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I want to watch "Jack the Bear" again.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I want to watch "The Bear" again.

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I want to watch "Brother Bear" again.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

'tis not even my Netflix account. I just pilfer space on my parents account and pick them up at their house.

"The Bear" made me bawl as a kid. I couldn't handle movies where an animal lost a parent.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Everybody has Punch Drunk Love and Cremaster 3 in their unique favorites.

EXCEPT Rosemary, who only watches musicals and old british tv shows.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I want to watch "The Bear" again.

Doesn't the little bear trip out on mushrooms in that movie?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Critical Disagreement!
Correct Answer! Adam rated 'Existenz' 2 stars, and Roger Ebert gave it 4.0 stars

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

"Alex In SF's list looks like that and he is still my netflix and real life friend!"

My Netflix list is CONSIDERABLY more than just Homicide episodes! I don't have very many Netflix friends though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

My unique favs:

Joe
The Stuff
New York, New York
All or Nothing
Across 110th Street
City on Fire
Melvin & Howard
Star 80
Tatooed Life
Time and Tide

And many more!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Yes "The Bear" has a psychedelic sequence.

I don't know my unique favorites...

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

BTW I really really liked Scum! I didn't realize it was out on DVD!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

better rate it then.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I just did!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

And yes, I took some poetic licence in describing your list, but that was merely to encourage Nick and Sarah to add me as their friend.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

As much as I occassionally badmouth Netflix for failing to get me movies quickly enough I can't imagine actually switching to another service. I've rated 2,500 or so movies and have a queue of almost 200 films. It would be lot of work to transfer that to a new service.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

What kind of delays have you experienced?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I am attempting to do this Netflix Friends thing -- send me invites at the address below, kay?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I have two queues, one I just keep for criterion releases, the other one is hovering just below 500 films.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

also, everyone invite me, jeff at gerousia dot com

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

"What kind of delays have you experienced?"

It tends to take them a couple of days (esp. on Mondays and Tuesdays) for them to get their shit together and send me films. It usually results in all five of my movies getting sent to me on Wednesday and Thursday and then (unless I watch my movies very very quickly on Wednesday and Thursday night) I don't get anything else until next Wednesday/Thursday. This is a relatively recent occurrence actually (well it's been happening for five months) as they used to send all my movies next day regardless of what day of the week it was.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Cprek, add yurself a s a friend to see your unique favorites. Among them are:

Mulholland Drive
Storytelling
In The Realms Of The Unreal
Scanners
Visitor Q
Primer
Hell House
Spartan
Gozu
Cannonball Run

etc

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Dean and I both HATE Ordinary People.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

We have one queue for me, my wife and daughter, so I get all the credit and none of the blame, FYI.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I just added you, Rock Hardy!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I think my ratings are not terribly reliable. I occasionally rate things in an attempt to skew Netflix into recommending me things I might like. This does not explain why Punch Drunk Love is rated five stars, though.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

wrong email adderss, invite me at jheath at gerousia dot com

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Can I ask a newbie Netflix question:

I just joined, signed up, etc, and created a queue of movies I'd like. Now, nothing's arrived so far - do I have so somehow submit my list, or will they just send the top 2 movies (I'm doing 2 at a time) from my list?

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Is this your way of saying that you LOVE Ordinary People?

I always change my ratings, but everyone knows I'm fickle so it doesn't matter. I think the 5 star system is flawed anyway.

xp they will send the top 2 from your list

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

What's in everyone's SAVED section?

mine=

Comic Book Superheroes
Comic Book Confidential
Eureka
Moolaadé
Last Year at Marienbad
Day for Night
The Paradine Case
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
Los Angeles Plays Itself
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Dear Wendy
Jules and Jim

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

My unique favorites list is huge. I guess that's because I rate everything I like as a 5 and everything I don't like as a 1.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

The Criterion Jules & Jim?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Saved:
Masque of the Red Death / Premature Burial availability: Unknown

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

yes
xp

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

It's not my account, really... but I'll try to log in later this afternoon and make a couple requests.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

My Saved:

Melinda and Melinda
Dark Water (i think i was drunk and added a ton of jennifer connelly movies for obvious reasons)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
What Is It?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

(two obvious reasons)

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

I'll probably Netflix Dark Water.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

You can do that. You can use "Netflix" as a verb now.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

"My" saved list (maybe half of which is mine, since as I say I'm sharing an account):

Gabbeh
Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity
Jean de Florette
Jules and Jim
Kings and Queen ... I see this is at Oak Street now. I've already seen it but wanted to see it again. MPLS peoples try to see this film!
Maya Deren: Experimental Films
Moolaadé
Shoeshine
Masque of the Red Death / Premature Burial
The Raspberry Reich
Tokyo Fist

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Hello Netflix! Did Jules and Jim NOT JUST COME OUT on Criterion a few months ago?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Movie in my queue I'm strangely most looking forward to seeing.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it did. I have it on my coffee table at home. Besides, surely they would have the Fox Lorber disc anyways, right? Don't they just swap out one disc for the other when it has been supplanted?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Saved:

Mysterious Skin
The War of the Worlds
2046
Charade
Clean Slate
Day for Night
Eureka
Evil
Faust
Key the Metal Idol: Vol. 1: Awakening
Last Night
Last Year at Marienbad
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Nostalghia
Pierrot Le Fou
The Big Combo
Tierra
Two-Lane Blacktop
Wheel of Time

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Is Pierrot being re-released?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Pierrot is le bomb.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Can someone answer my question upthread...please, I'm beggin you...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I did!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Aha, now I can see Adam's list. Extensive. I'll have to parse it later for recommendations.

My Saved basket:

Cowards Bend the Knee
Clean Slate
Daughters of the Dust
Faust
Last Year at Marienbad
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Moolaadé
Short #2: Dreams
The Child
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Two-Lane Blacktop

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

On a side note - gypsy, I didn't realize who you were until I got your invite. I remember your last ILX name!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

opps, sorry Adam, and thanks.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I remember your last ILX name!

haha, "spittle" you mean? I changed it because I got complaints about it being unappetizing...and lord knows I aspire to appetizing.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

oh no, I remember when you used your real name!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. Man of a thousand log-ins. Or 3, anyway. Yeah, I dropped the real name when I got my current job. Decided maybe I shouldn't be so googlable...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

add me add me

power.strike @ gmail.com

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

My saved list:

Brothers
Batman Begins
High Tension
Mysterious Skin
Unscripted: Season 1
2046
Carnivale: Season 2
Deadwood: Season 2
Eros
Gonin
Kings and Queen
The Arena
The Best of Youth
The Great Raid
The Naked City
The Sopranos: Season 6
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The Wire: Season 3

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Killing of a Chinese Bookie is terrible btw.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Braveheart terrible or Straw Dogs terrible?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Hmmn closer to Straw Dogs, but really it's just boring ass Cassavettes terrible.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

In that they are both movies you rated low and I disagree with you on one of them.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

and you answered my question!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Haha Straw Dogs is awful, but at least it's marginally entertaining. But politically it's shudder. Killing of Chinese Bookie is too damn slow to be entertaining. Plus I can't stand Ben Gazarra.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Straw Dogs is suspect but I still like it.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I like a lot of Peckinpah, but that one I just can't stomach. It's so unredeemable by the end. 'sides Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia is so so so MUCH better.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Reviewing Adam's and Dean's queues, I see the same tendency I have, to add a bunch of movies by the same director (or actor or whatever) all at once. So how much queue management and tweaking does everybody do? Do you actually rent like 5 movies in a row by the same director, festival-style, or do you scatter them out? I tend to do the latter, out of fear of overdosing on a given director or genre.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I just sent you an invite adamrl. The ratings aren't mine and neither is over half the queue, but you are desperate, so...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I scatter stuff and I manage my queue every day.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I am extremely neurotic btw.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I mix it up, but sometimes I will do it "festival style". So right now I am watching all the Alan Clarke stuff and anything set in London. I took over my wife's queue so that I could use it for tv shows, etc. But she wants me to put Sky Captain up there next. :(

xxxp - I'm NOT desperate!

xp-I'm neurotic too, but in a different way from Alex

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Haha actually I'm more obsessive than neurotic. Adam is definitely neurotic though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NEUROTIC?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Cool, five friends suddenly. Just invited Dean, also.

Saved List:
Kingdom of Heaven
Henry V
Howl's Moving Castle
Les Vampires
Maya Deren: Experimental Films
MirrorMask
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Topsy-Turvy

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DON'T I MEAN IS THE BETTER QUESTION!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I'm going home to FEAST on Brown Bunny.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Poor choice of words there, Adam.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Killing of a Chinese Bookie is terrible btw.

Terribly brilliant you mean. I take it you don't like Cassavettes at all?

Netflix seems to be slow on buying the Criterion discs. I was bummed to rent Videodrome a while back and discover that it was a crappy version with no bonus features.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Cassavettes the actor is good. I don't like any of the films he directed much (I vaguely remember thinking Shadows was decent, but it's been a while.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

I add movies as they pop into my head. Occasionally I will watch a film and want to add other films by the director, writer, actors ... etc etc and I'll do it. Other than that, I try to make sure that each shipment has one disc of a TV show, one disc of something light (a comedy usually) and then one disc or something more involving. It's hard enough for me to find time to watch things that I try not to make it too difficult (i.e. - queueing up Tarkovsky.)

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been doing that with the Orphic trilogy -- breaking it up with kung fu and Anchorman.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

(Hell, I boo-ern a number of them to be watched later at my discretion.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

how can one hate ben gazzara!?!!?

― huell howser (chaki), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

i want more netflix friends! zednd at yahoo!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

EXCEPT Rosemary, who only watches musicals and old british tv shows.

you forgot Tom Fontana series!! (Although, I just watched the British version of Pennies from Heaven, which, uh, fits your description, huh)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

A Woman Under the Influence is great!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I just sent a bunch more invites. Won't you be my neighbors?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

I just doubled my Netflix friends today! And no it isn't, Jeff!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

(Jeff, Alex practically makes a living from being WRONG, it's okay)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

My taste is impeccable (and unlike Adam I don't change my mind every three minutes.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

It's okay, he only hurt my feelings a little bit. I'll go cry over my cassavetes box in the corner

ps. I've actually only watched WUTI and Shadows from it. I buy dvds and never watch them in lieu of netflix dvds.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe you guys all hated Scream. WTF is wrong with you people?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that movie is AWFUL!!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

(I watched My Best Fiend last night and it was kind of disappointing!)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

You are crazy. I would rather watch Scream 3 (which wasn't that good) than some crap Cassavettes film with his wooden bunch of crap failed NYC stage actors.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, so I can't comment. But Scream was not good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha wtf Adam you liked JERRY MAGUIRE and you are badmouthing Scream?!?! Put the crackpipe down.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Jerry Maguire is sweet. Also I liked Renee Zellweger before she went weird.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait, waht did I give Jerry Maguire? It's still a 3 star movie at best.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

chinese bookie sucks

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Thank god someone else agrees with me there.

Adam, do you just genre films? Cuz Scream is really good if you have even a passing love for slasher thrillers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Adam, do you just genre films?

Just what? Just HATE?

No, I don't hate genre films, I just hate bad smug boring meta ones like Scream.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha but you like every other kind of bad smug boring meta films? So it's just bad smug boring meta thrillers that bug you?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Movie in my queue I'm strangely most looking forward to seeing.

-- Eric H.

I saw this recently! A friend at work gave it to me. It was pretty interesting, I guess. Most of the Arabs are played by Caucasian actors, which is unfortunate, but maybe it couldn't really be avoided. Also there is the rule that prohibits Muhammad from being depicted, so he never appears on screen. I think it's funny that to get around this, some shots are in the FIRST PERSON from Muhammed's eyes - I thought that would be a worse offense than depicting him!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

My saved list:

Turtles Can Fly
Last Days
2046
Ken Park
Kings and Queen
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Best of Youth
Tropical Malady
Two-Lane Blacktop

Be my netflix friends. gml = gmail.com. I'll send out invites later.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Tropical Malady was not good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that movie is AWFUL!!!!!

I finally agree with Adam on something!

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly recommend Two-Lane Blacktop btw. Also The Cockfighter and The Iguana. Monte Hellman was amazing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Scream was the mean-spirted nadir of '90s self-referential pop culture. The worst kind of shallow "irony," self-congratulatory and gratuitously nasty. Everything interesting it did was in the first 10 minutes.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Exactly!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

also Drew Barrymore

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

SHE GOT KILLED! IMMEDIATELY!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Also mean-spirited? What it was supposed to be the friendly slasher flick? I'll bite on the self-referential part, but that doesn't bother me if it's done well and Scream was done very well. But I love horror/slasher flicks and Craven esp. so maybe it's just me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Movies all three of my Netflix friends gave 5 stars:

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Rear Window
Vertigo

Lowest rated movies all three of my Netflix friends rated (two one stars, one two star):

The Beach
Death Becomes Her
Dogma
Garden State
Mystic River
Pearl Harbor
The Perfect Storm
What About Bob?

Hey, I liked Death Becomes Her!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Also there is the rule that prohibits Muhammad from being depicted, so he never appears on screen.

Yeah, I think that was the main reason I wanted to get the film: the controversy that surrounded it w.r.t the misunderstanding of its "representation" of God... and the hostages that were taken, et al.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/special_packages/passion_of_christ/8020436.htm

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly recommend Two-Lane Blacktop btw.

And yet you call Cassavettes boring!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

haa

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"And yet you call Cassavettes boring!"

Did I miss the auto-racing in AWUTI?!?! Fuck I'd rather watch Warren Oates pick his nose for an hour and a half than Ben Gazarra or Peter Falk.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have a confession to make... I cancelled our netflix subscription today! Can we still be real friends?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh no!!!!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Did I miss the auto-racing in AWUTI?!?!

You didn't see the director's cut? I do love Two-Lane Blacktop but I also find it almost Cassavetean. Cassavettian? Cassavesque?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have a confession to make... I cancelled our netflix subscription today! Can we still be real friends?

That's CRAZY! but yes, we can.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I need to take a break from the small screen anyway, but especially from H:LOTS. It wasn't until after we'd watched the last episode of season 6 that we learned there's a whole other season left! OH NO!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

What is the saved section?

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Movies on your queue that don't have release dates.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I've just started skimming everybody's ratings and queues, and my queue is growing at an alarming rate.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

(It's like a statscock with movie stars!)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Movies on your queue that don't have release dates.

here's the ones zip.ca doesn't have that are in my list:

Playtime
Repulsion (on order)
Two-Lane Blacktop (on order)

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I deleted basically my whole queue that was filled with like 50 examples of 50s Americana and 70s French films, and instead added only TV shows, most of which requested by my mom: Larry David, Homicide, The Office. Now that I rent my serious movies from the library, I need to keep the Netflix light. Also, now that I work regularly, I don't have the time or inclination to watch a movie a day.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

I invited Netflix to my BBQ.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, library dvd loans are great. In Nova Scotia I've discovered that I can even order them online from other provincial libraries and get them shipped to my local one.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

I ordered "Holes" from Netflix b/c the teacher across the hall from me had the poster on her door and when the DVD got to me it was cracked and I told Netflix and then right away they sent another copy to me.

I'm just saying.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Starsky and Hutch was okay, which is remarkable since I want Stiller to disappear forever. Also, I was playing GBA Zelda for part of it. Maybe that has something to do with it.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Brown Bunny was fuckin' awful. Sorry if I sound surprised.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I liked it until the ending.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember the ending. What happened?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Dr Glen.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I probably could have found this out if I read the thread, but when you order DVDs from Criterion or something, do they send you the booklet, too?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

No.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

It's not like the essays aren't all available on their website.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Also if there are multiple discs for extras or whatever, they only send you the disc(s) with the feature.

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

I've been adding my .02 all night. I like reading everyone elses.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 21 August 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I put all the Homicide DVDs IN ORDER in my queue. The next one should be Season 3 Disc 6. They sent me Homicide: The Movie. WTF!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

i have had bad luck lately ordering popcorn flicks from them ... each disc is trashed.

― dr gary bleune (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Am v excited -- I just FINALLY joined and have "Amelie", "Lemony Snickett", and something else I forget waiting at home, must pick up ice cream on the way. I may NEVER share movie-picking privileges again.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

We have to watch one of the three we've got at home so I can get Worst Witch!

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

"oh yeah, library dvd loans are great. In Nova Scotia I've discovered that I can even order them online from other provincial libraries and get them shipped to my local one."

I love this! Since I discovered the online search and hold function at my local public library I have not been back to a video store and I am watching more movies than i have in quite some time. It's great! I guess this all depends on the quality of your local library's catalog but I've lucked out in that regard. I've rented everything from Aguirre, Wrath of God to Criterion films (with the booklets), to entire Sopranos seasons, to "popcorn" movies. Some times I have to wait quite some time for certian releases (there are 300 people in front of me in the queue for the 3rd season of Six Feet Under, for instance) but with a hold allowance of 15 items, I have never not had a movie to watch. It's been kind of a revelation for me...

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just a note that Time Out have a month free Screen Select trial, and you also get sent a free DVD too. If interested go to www.timeout.com/freedvd.

I shall be testing it against LoveFilm for a month (or probably just suspending my Lovefilm for a month as seven DVD's on the trot would start getting a bit mad), thoug LF have been very slow at turning around films of late.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

did you get your free dvd yet, pete?

quite impressed with screenselect so far - i was with lovefilm for a while when they started but was never very impressed, but screenselect seem to b v good at sending the movies we actually want.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

who knows how long this will last, though.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Netflix is finally shipping me Worst Witch. Then when I'm excited that next we'll get the first of the 7-Up series, they grab Minority Report from the middle of the queue instead!? WTF is up with them?!?

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Being a Netflix customer is like a BATTLE to make sure they don't make a profit from you.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

They make so much money from Jaymc, they have a picture of him in their entrance hall.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I think Palindromes is arriving tomorrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I just watched Rockers. Fun!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

"Being a Netflix customer is like a BATTLE to make sure they don't make a profit from you."

They've FIXED the fight though! They've totally capped my rentals at 24-27 a month. Motherfuckers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

What did everyone decide to do with the Netflix Settlement thing btw. I am debating that now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

What was that again? I totally forgot about it. I've had no complaints about them.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember who any of the people in my friends list are.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

if there's someone named jesse on your list, that's me

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

(i mean, unless you know other jesses)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

I've had two Jesses! This is good, I can edit the name to note who people are.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm "Adam Levine".
Not this one, though we have the same laptop (actually, mine is newer)
http://www.u-blog.net/seniora/img/AdamOrdiMmm.JPG

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

What movie do you suppose that Adam Levine is watching on his lap top?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

PZO: What is your favorite line from a movie?
Adam: Umm..favorite line from a movie. Favorite line from a movie is...it can't be dirty, can it?
PZO: If you want it to be.
Adam: How about..."Don't fuck with the Jesus."
PZO: What movie is that from?
Adam: The Big Lebowski.
PZO: Ah, that seems to be a common movie among musicians.
Adam: But you know what, I just realized that is so cliche for me to do that. No, forget that. Let me think of a better one. Umm..how about... What's a line from Liar Liar? Like one line. Alright, I know
this is annoying.
PZO: No, it's fine.
Adam: A really funny one. These are dificult questions. Ferris Bueller? No, 'cause everyone quotes The Big Lebowski.
What about---sorry, this is so annoying.
PZO: Don't worry about it.
Adam: How about.... what's my favorite movie of all time? That's a good question. Okay, "I think Annette's tits are getting bigger." "Yeah, I noticed the A and E started to bend around the sides."
PZO: What's that from?
Adam: That's from Stand By Me.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

I am Alex and I am probably at the top of your friend's list unless someone else has rated more than 3,000 movies (it's slow at work at sometime.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Jeff, I'm on your list. I like your 2 cents. Netflix wants to know if I want to recommend either the Chuck Jones documentary or Ikuru to you. Hmmm.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

are you jacki m?

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

yep. I'm a lightweight for ratings, not even 200 yet :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could get a rss feed of everytime someone writes a 2 cents, or rates something highly in my friends.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

That would be good! I'd just like to see the friends ratings in the info pop-up, so I don't have to click through to see who thought what.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

The other Adam is super cute!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Not that our Adam isn't, but you know.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I have a beard now.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

It itches.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

That hinders "super cuteness," generally, but I'd have to see it on you to really decide.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

It's a pretty darling beard.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Is it like Tobey Maguire in Ride with the Devil or more like George Clooney when he goes scruffy?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Haha neither. It's like really thick stubble right now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

...not the Ethan Hawke, though, right?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Haha oh god no.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Adam I see you added "No Maps for These Territories"... You are in for a treat. Netflix is taking their time on turnaround this month.

A friend of mine as Greencine and got the Turkish "E.T.". Netflix does not have this movie. I do not fault them for this.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

how do you get netflix friends? I haven't got any.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Invite them!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Or ask them to invite you.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

oh! Well invite me! The only people I know who use Netflix are ILXors!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Allyzay - I just sent you an invite. And you too Alex sF.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I have accepted your invitation.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Yay movies! We've had the complete Dangermouse at home for too long.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Ally I sent you an invite too.

I also just noticed that my parents have rented "Rockers," presumably from seeing it on my list. Interesting. My mom called me after watching "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs" wanting to know who the hell was Guy Maddin and wtf was going on in his movies.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

You will note, my queue is full of crap!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Cprek I enjoy your recommendations very much. Architectures is so good I want to buy it!

I got "No Maps.." because I am a huge fan of Bruce Sterling. I bet he's in it for like a minute.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

I have a beard now.

adam, no

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

that's right. Try and do something about it.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

why u brake heart ?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

ally - your aesthetic intrigues me

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Are you...a frat boy?

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me, or has service gotten worse at Netflix? I just restarted my membership after a couple of years off, and I still haven't gotten the last of my initial three picks after five days of waiting (and it's not like it was that obscure a pick-- Ozu's Ohayo). The last two times I was a member it seemed like shipping was a lot faster-- when they told me they'd shipped something I'd usually get it the next day. On the plus side, I've got 300+ movies in my queue and they're supposedly all available "Now" except for one that's on "Short Wait". Previously, a lot of the more obscure/fringy items I selected would be on wait list for a while before they'd become available. But I'm bummed by the stuff that they've stopped carrying altogether-- no Last Year at Marienbad, no Sunrise, no Cannibal Holocaust...

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 23 December 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Shipping has gotten A LOT slower. I'm considering cancelling.

― Not That, Friday, 23 December 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure most of the copies of Marienbad and Sunrise (one OOP, one only available with a $40-50 box) were stolen by members. I briefly considered stealing the copy of Two-Lane Blacktop I had but would rather find one on EBay.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 23 December 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

I am a frat boy, yes.

Shipping has gotten a bit slow, yes.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Slipping has been slow for nearly a year, but apparently it's still faster than any of the alternatives (at least according to the breakdowns I've seen.) Sigh.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

My shipping is still pretty quick, with the odd exception. Usually just a 2-3 day turnaround from sending one in to getting one back. And anyway my viewing has slowed down so much from other competing demands that it doesn't really matter.

I think I've got a pretty good spread in my friends' list now, at least judging from the ratings of "Lost in Translation": one 5-star, three 4-stars, two 3-stars, one 2-star, two 1-stars. (I'm a 4-star on it myself. The bile toward it seems misdirected. But I like the range of opinions.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Netflix rocks! The selection kicks Blockbuster's ass, and I think that not having to go to the video store has saved my relationship. I don't think I really watch enough movies to save any money though.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'll go through a period of tearing through the movies I have and then not watch another for another 4 weeks. I'm really not getting my money's worth but whatever.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I just figure I'm not paying only for volume but also selection and convenience.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha so me and Adam were the ones who hated it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

And Zoe, too.

I have vol. 1 of the Yakuza Papers home right now, will probably watch it this weekend. It sounds Christmasy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

but apparently it's still faster than any of the alternatives

"SF"=San Francisco? What about Greencine? Admittedly, they also had big wait list problems two years ago when I was a member.

I'm not paying only for volume but also selection and convenience

Yeah, but given new shipping problems I don't know how long I'm going to stick with it this time. My county library system has a surprisingly good selection of titles available on DVD (for instance, some orderer there really likes old Japanese flicks-- they have almost every Seijin Suzuki flick Netflix has and a motherload of old samurai flicks besides-- plus they have Suspiria! WTF?), so I'm pretty much going to use Netflix to fill in the gaps-- which makes me wonder how many obscure exploitation flicks and "film classics" I really need to experience in the privacy of my own home. It's too bad that my local revival theater just went kaput-- I'm starting to envy NYCers and Chicagoans their access to movies as they were meant to be seen.

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

"SF"=San Francisco? What about Greencine? Admittedly, they also had big wait list problems two years ago when I was a member."

It is San Francisco, but Greencine is more expensive and the shipping times are supposed to be about the same. I probably should switch anyway, but the fact that I would have to re-rate everything is kind of deterring me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

If you guys would like to friend me, try

jonathan
****dot****
williams
**snail**
gmail
**d0t**
c0m

― GET EQUIPPED WITH DVD MAILZ (ex machina), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

My email address on Netflix is the same as the one below.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Ditto. I've got 543 movies rated, but I have trouble with keeping my rating criteria consistent. I guess 5 stars is supposed to be for my pet favoritest movies, but the difference between 3 and 4 stars gets blurry, especially when I look back at older ratings and can't remember what drove me to assign a movie one over the other. 4 stars = "really a lot of fun" and 3 stars = "it was OK"? Negative ratings are easier: 2 stars = "boring", 1 star = "unwatchably bad" (e.g., Baise Moi).

I thought Greencine's turnaround time for SF residents was supposed to be screaming fast. Was that a myth, or is Netflix in SF comparable?

I'm getting annoyed with the slowness. The Ozu flick still hasn't shown up, and of the two movies I sent back together two days ago, Netflix has only bothered to process one today. Are they still closed on Saturdays?

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Hey, this friends thing is kinda neat! It makes me feel like I'm being really stingy with 5 stars though. I'm sending invites to people who asked to be invited already (and Alex in SF, because his 3000 ratings intrigue me).

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

I share our account with my wife and daughter, whose interests I don't always share, and they've done 80-85% of the movie-rating. So, when you see that the first X-Men movie got rated 5 stars? That wasn't me.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

I've handed out 5 stars pretty liberally, I guess. I'd prefer a more carefully calibrated system. Out of 100, maybe. Or 1000. Then I could really differentiate between an 896 and a 957.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

i used to have a netflix subscription. as soon as all my grad skool applications are in (two more to go) i'm getting myself a new subscription to congratulate myself on a job well done.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and feel free to invite me, other people that might be interested.

Some of the ratings I've seen so far surprise me-- Jon's tastes seem to map pretty closely to mine, Alex's not so much. (I'm sad that he gave It's a Wonderful Life only two stars. I take it you don't like Capracorn, Alex?)

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I can't stand It's a Wonderful Life and I'm not generally fond of Capra, no.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Wait you disliked Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior!?!!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I feel asleep watching it, plus I didn't think it was that well done overall. I don't hand out stars to Jackie Chan just for having good stunts in his movies either.

― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 25 December 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe you fell asleep watching it, but I do hand stars to Jackie Chan for having good stunts in his movies. I mean why are you watching if you don't want to see good stunts.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 December 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I want thrill-power all the way through an action movie-- some of his flicks get pretty boring and inane in the sections between the set pieces, and some of the later movies are much lamer than the earlier ones. (Or cheesiness is just more acceptable as things age, or I just got really sick of Jackie Chan somewhere during the flood of releases in the US after Rumble in the Bronx came out here.)

The Ozu finally showed up on Saturday-- it was held up because it got mailed out from New York for some reason (They don't have their selection perfectly duplicated at each distribution hub? Or they've fixed the wait time problem by shipping from whatever hub's got a title available when it's in demand?). But I did get fast turnaround on the one disc they decided to process on Friday-- I got my next one in the mail the next day.

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 26 December 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

I think jaymc has the right approach. The rating thing is starting to bug me while I'm still watching movies, and it's pointless-- who TF cares if I give Bad Timing three or four stars?

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

My sister got me a netflix gift certificate for Christmas, woo!

I have a question: when you order/queue individual discs for TV series, do they try to send it to you in sequential order? I'd hate to put "XXX, Season 1, Disc 4" and "XXX, Season 1, Disc 5" in the queue and then get disc 5 before I've seen disc 4.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 2 January 2006 06:52 (twenty years ago)

The only time I can think of where you don't get the first queued disc is when it's not designated as being available "now." Then it sometimes skips over to the second or third in line.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I always buffer TV series in my queue with other discs to make sure that I don't get disc 2 or 3 before disc 1. The Netflix software isn't smart enough to ensure that you get them in order and disc 1 (esp. on brand new to DVD hot series) are always the most popular and likely to be checked out.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

And, it might just be me, but I think watching an entire disc of TV episodes (much less an entire season) in a short space of time is kinda draggy.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Stuff that's sitting at the top of my queue, teasing me with "very long wait":

Story of a Love Affair
R. Kelly: Trapped in the Closet
Sins of the Fleshapoids

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Yep, Still waiting for "Swamp Thing"

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been waiting on "Trapped in the Closet" for a while now!

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Sins of the Fleshapoids

Say what? I can't even find this offered on Netflix!

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 2 January 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Netflix has been mostly ok with sending tv series in a row, although they sent me the Homicide TV movie (and Repo Man and Repulsion) while I was still in the middle of season 4 or 5.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 2 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

ah the joys of user reviews -

No nudity that I can recall, some violence, some deaths shown very gently, no serious cursing that I can recall.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Fleshapoids is totally there. It's the DVD that just got released by Other Cinema. Maybe search Mike Kuchar?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

The only Kuchar DVD I can find is some '80s thing by George, and Fleshapoids itself brings up no hits. Netflix is hiding things from me?

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

It'll do that.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Netflix makes me want to actually TURN IN my Blockbuster card in defiance. Like, have a ceremony, one with robes and burning sage, in which I sever myself from their shittiness forever.

I have an Amon Duul DVD queued up!! Sharing the account with the woman has been daunting, though - I want Ilsa The Wicked Warden and the Townes Van Zandt DVD, she wants Play Misty For Me and The Wicker Man. Right now, we have A Dirty Shame (sucks but she loves John Waters and insists on calling me a 'neuter' now), Bullshit Season Two Disc One, and Over The Edge.

I have two questions though - what happens if you lose the little envelope that the CD comes in? I don't mean the mailer - i mean the little sleeve with the description? I think we lost one for good.

also - uh...not that i'd do anything UNETHICAL, but, err...how do I put this? What is the 'video guard' situation for burning? Does Netlix guard everything, some things, or none?

― Harvey is a Funny Name, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Aww, screw it, I'll ask in a new thread. I expect it'll start a whole new debate, anyway.

― Harvey, Saturday, 7 January 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

I dunno if this will work, but this gets me to the Fleshapoids page, anyway.

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70040927&trkid=90529

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 January 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Eric! It worked, but unfortunately, the little button below the picture of the box doesn't even say "Save", it just says "Unavailable". WTF? Did they maybe decide to phase this title out right after acquiring it?

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

After mocking the folks who baulked at the Wal-Mart thing and bitched about slow return times, i will now join you! I sent out two discs last Monday, got one return on Wednesday (very good, but as expected) and only got the second yesterday! What fucking gives? Not the first time either.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Yea, wtf ours are slow now :(

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Also we didn't get disc 2 of BSG 2.0 and were all wtf and filed for it and then they found it there?

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

They are worse than CRIMINALS.

Just saying.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

a friend of mine has a theory that when you initially join, they are very timely about sending you your discs. once the romance is over, even before you're ready for it to end, they take long & longer to send you anything on time. i merely joined to save $$ on episodes of Six Feet Under.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I've never had problems with timeliness. But then they are making a fortune on me, so they probably don't care.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

You've sped up, I see.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I had to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

why?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I had to keep up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

what does that even mean?

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Forget it, Kelsey...it's jaymctown.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

"a friend of mine has a theory that when you initially join, they are very timely about sending you your discs. once the romance is over, even before you're ready for it to end, they take long & longer to send you anything on time."
I've also suspected this!

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

It's true. There are tons of testimonials including some from Netflix employees that basically attest to it. Plus they do some snazzy stuff to ensure that you CAN'T rent more than a certain number of movies a month and they slow down your returns and deliveries to ensure that. It's pretty lame.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to make a documentary expose' on them.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

i just signed on a couple weeks ago. First two weeks free. sent something out, got a new one two days later. we're now about 3 weeks in (paying now) and they're taking a day longer to ARRIVE at the netflix facility, and a day longer to arrive at my house. wtf?

anyone experience the same with blockbuster?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)Haha well they just got sued about it so you might not be the only one.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! That's my email in the middle saying "maybe it was alex"!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

You should maybe edit out your wife's e-mail address!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Uh not to be rude, but SAYING that you get UNLIMITED movies and then RIGGING your system to PREVENT people from getting as many movies as they want is a damn good reason to sue someone IMO.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Movies that I've done multiple searches for on Netflix without success do occasionally end up being made available, though.
I still rent from the local shops, too. I'm probably spending a lot on movie rentals monthly.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Uh not to be rude, but SAYING that you get UNLIMITED movies and then RIGGING your system to PREVENT people from getting as many movies as they want is a damn good reason to sue someone IMO.

Sign the thing!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

btw, that is rude Alex.

;)

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I think I had to sign it a month ago. I don't really care about getting one extra movies out at a time for a month. What a lame settlement.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

So...it wasn't you.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Hah you don't think I would have told you I was SUING Netflix, Adam.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

You seemed so angry about it at the time, it seemed like you could have.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh I'm still angry about it, but I'm also lazy and I'd rather just rent something from the local video store than find a lawyer and do something about it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

http://netflixunderground.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-to-get-revenge-on-netflix.html

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hackingnetflix.com/

Apparently cancelling then re-activating your account has worked for some people. Netflix throttles for long-time heavy users, but it saves your queue in case you re-join.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Netflix - Bad!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

well, in the terms of use they have what amounts to an admission that they will throttle heavy users:

In determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service. As a result, those subscribers who receive the most movies may experience that (i) the shipment of their next available DVD occurs at least one business day following return of their previously viewed movie, (ii) delivery takes longer, as the shipments may not be processed from their local distribution center and (iii) they receive movies lower in their queue more often than our other subscribers.

my free trial just ended, and i'm one of those watch the day they arrive and send right back types, so we'll see what happens. but as long as they actually send movies when they claim to, they'll still be a leg up on greencine. (who i quit because they just stopped sending me the movies they checked out on my account. really weird.)

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I called and had a 15 minute conversation with Netflix customer support today. He basically blamed their software and pointed out that I still was getting a pretty good deal. I pointed out that if it was such a great deal then why wasn't it the deal I got the first 5-6 months I had Netflix. He politely told me I could quit the service if I didn't like it. I told I had no intention of quitting the service, but every intention of calling every day my movies were bumped to the next day for shipping.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Note: it's actually kind of annoying doing this so I may not, but whatever.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

You know, the throttling is certainly annoying, but I'm still getting my money's worth so I'm sticking with Netflix until I find a better alternative. What makes it really aggrivating is the underhanded way they're handling it on all fronts.

― inert false cat (sleep), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that is the most obnoxious part of the whole thing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Well that and the fact that I got TWO movies this week, because they decided to pretend that half of what I sent got lost. I mean that was fucking obnoxious too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I've had enough w/Netflix.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the problem is that the best alternatives are either too appalling to consider (Blockbuster) or supposedly not much better (Greencine).

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

xpost
Exactly Alex, that's my biggest problem.

mon: i send back ratcatcher and l'avventura simultaneously
tue: they say "we just received ratcatcher" and send the next movie
wed: nothing
thu: nothing
fri: "we just received l'avventura"

Bullshit. Stop being so fucking slimy and implying it's the postal service's fault. Throttling is in the press, it's (finally) in the terms of service, just tell me you received my movie and the next one is shipping in two days or whatever.

― inert false cat (sleep), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

You guys are cute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I realized how much better Reel's selection is (especially with Criterion things that are out of print), plus I can augment it with the pretty impressive selection at Berkeley library. I go out with the DVD vultures every Saturday morning to check the new arrivals. Whenever I see them swarming, I always assume they're after the same stuff I am but I overheard the weirdo next to me snatch up a disc and mutter in awe under his breath "hmmm...Dan Ackroyd!".

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I've seen most of the Criterion things which are out of print and most of the other out of print stuff I couldn't care less about anyway. And the video stores with comparable selections to Netflix are far flung from my house so I couldn't head over there anyway. I should hit up the library though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I just discovered a new branch of my county's library really close to my apartment. Their selection isn't very big, but it's well-chosen. I still need Netflix for most things though.

― inert false cat (sleep), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

i talked to netflix today about how slowly i've been getting movies, and they totally denied throttling and blamed it on the postal service (surprise surprise). she said she'd send out the next disc on my list even though they hadn't yet processed my last returned disc (which should have gotten to them three days ago)...as if she was doing me a big favor.

was reading a bit similar companies, and i'm feeling like i'm pretty much stuck with netflix if i want my mailed dvds. i wonder how much i can muster up the energy to harrass customer service.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm about to embark upon GREEN CINE. I'll spare you the details of my Netflix displeasure but just say it was similar to most of your frustration and I'm not even a big candidate for the throttling.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Shasta, let me know how Greencine works out.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

why is blockbuster such an apallin alternative to netflix? two free store rental coupons should be able to cover shippin gaps if it's at all like netflix...is it?

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

My reasons for hating Blockbuster are both corporate (I find their one world-one video store model gross) and cultural (I find their practice of editing their films and focusing on "family" fare grotesque.) I should probably hate Netflix for the some of the same reasons now, but my loathing of Blockbuster is much longer standing and entirely inflexible.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Greencine are good (local!)people, but I'm think I'm soured on postal DVD services for a while. Do let us know how it works out, Mr. Shasta.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I've been having problems with this too and I don't even go through like 5 movies a month lately, I've been too busy. But sho nuff I send in a movie and it takes like a week before they acknowledge and send something else. Sometimes there will be a two day lag between acknowledgement and the sending-another-one message. Are thye just throttling EVERYONE now?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc's a pretty good candidate for a throttling, wouldn't you say?

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

i've been a two month member now, and this happens to me on and off, but it doesnt take THAT long, maybe an extra day for them to recieve it, and an extra in shipping. usually 1-2 days longer than when i first signed on... ugh./

xpost

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

My relationship with Netflix has gone the way all but the most special love affairs tend to go.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I've found someone else and she's more honest and well, cheap.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Ours have been prompt lately - received the day after we send them back and the next movie to us within 2 days. But ours are processed out of Spokane, which I would guess doesn't get as much traffic as the service centers for more populated areas. The one movie that took far too long to get was Worst Witch, probably because they only have one copy of the abysmal thing.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha oh my god you netflixed the Worst Witch too??? The Tim Curry song extravaganza is possibly the strangest thing that has ever--EVER--been put to film.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Netflix has been really fast for us lately after an extended period of slow-as-Christmas. All three of us have periods when we are slow to turn discs around, so I guess we're not marked for throttling, but the last three weeks, we've been burnin' through the queue.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

After The Worst Witch you need to get Return to Oz and watch the most fucked-up thing Disney has ever made.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

But I have noticed that our service is starting to slow down after 7 months, especially since the shipping facility is in Indy and I know mail only takes one day to get there.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE Return To Oz!

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I could not believe how OMG! WTF! BIZARRE! that Tim Curry thing was. We debated on burning a copy, to have around for posterity, but realized it was better to just remember it than have it in the house.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Where are you again, Jocelyn? Bloomington?

I should know this by now.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

No, its rival to the North. That scene where Mumbi is running around without her head on gave me such nightmares as a child.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Throttle me. Go ahead. I dare you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Hahah! I'm putting Return to Oz on the top of the queue!

BTW, I grab things off those of you on my Friends list ALL the time. I am the lamest of Netflix friends, always taking and with a piddly amount of ratings and reviews.

Not West Laf, Jocelyn? I did the Purdue thing for awhile.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

That's where she lives! I forgot.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I've never been there but I've been past.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Jaq, did you see that website that had an entire review of the Worst Witch? It put tears in my eyes.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh no - I must MUST find that!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/worst.html

we actually ripped an MP3 of the song, that was too good to let slide into memory lane.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Adam next time you must stop and we will drink like old comrades.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

alright.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Tim's dressed up with a bat bowtie and a gay pride rainbow cape the size of a hang glider.

OMG! I can't read any more of this at work! It's all coming back to me!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Aren't UK ilxors jealous of this netflix? I just checked out the amazon.com version for the UK, and it's way worse. Plus I prefer netflix's layout.

― richardk (Richard K), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

UK has LoveFilm.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Jocelyn, we watched Return to Oz. You are so OTM - what a completely fucked up kids' movie!

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I cancelled my account. The throttled delays were pretty ridiculous considering the level of service I was paying for. Also, I waited 4 months with Swamp Thing at the top of my queue! Ridiculous!

I'm not going to spend money on a rental service in the near future, but when I do, I will go with something like greencine I guess. They have the Turkish ET, which is pretty cool.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Ooh we should add Return to Oz. I saw that in the theater as a kid! I didn't think it was any more fucked up and nightmarish than the Neverending Story, TBH.

Last night we watched Four Brothers, that was immensely gratifying somehow.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I've been getting DVD's where the contrast goes from normal to a pinkish hue and then back again, it does this over and over (even when paused). WTF?

I'm probably going to cancel my account as requesting a replacement copy has never worked.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

That's the copy protection on the DVDs fucking with your TV. How is your DVD player plugged into the set?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

What is Macrovision?
Macrovision is a copying protection system, that is installed on ‘most’ DVDs. Macrovision causes varying colour balances and distorts the picture on any attempts at copying to a VHS.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Through the VCR.

xpost. AHA! thanks!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. For some reason they've been slightly better lately (I am guessing the days I was on vacation are registering or maybe I've been watching slower.) I'm still not going to quit unless I know for sure that what I am replacing it with is actually better.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm knocking wood -- they've been faster than ever, and we're turning stuff around back to them in one or two days.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

It's still been working pretty good for me! It's not Netflix's fault that I put a bunch of stuff in my queue that has turned out to be dire.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I created my own profile separate from the one owned by my Netflix husband. I already tried to get you to friend me, adamrl, and was denied. But if anyone else wants to try, I think you should probably be able to using the ephender-amp-hotmail-dt-cm address. Or at least in theory.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm not netflix anymore!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I just sent you an Netflix invite.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Cool. It worked (even though I'm not the executor, or whatever, of the Netflix account). You've rated a shitload.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Does the trick of returning two DVDs in one envelope to thwart their delays still work?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

No.

(xpost) Haha yes I have.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

I just recently re-started a Netflix account since it's no longer convenient for me to go to Video Vault down in Old Town Alexandria. Seems like they're carrying a lot broader selection than they used to when I used them 5-6 years ago!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

It's weird. You seem a much lighter grader than I, Alex/SF, but all the movies under the "movies we disagree over" blurb are movies I like:

Barry Lyndon
Eyes Wide Shut
Beetlejuice
The Last Temptation of Christ
Crash
It's a Wonderful Life
Rushmore
Million Dollar Baby

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 March 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Netflix is a cheap whore. I've been signed up for just over two months and they're starting to throttle me. I sent them an item on Monday and I'm not due to get its replacement 'til Saturday. And the site's down. It's down a lot, isn't it? Boo.

(The other night I got "The Thief of Bagdad", which I know no video store in 100 miles stocks and it was GREAT so I still love you, Netflix. But please don't take advantage of me any more.)

― Father Brian Eno (Father Brian Eno), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:00 (twenty years ago)

"You seem a much lighter grader than I, Alex/SF"

I'm tend just overrate movies that I likeso I get more movies recommendations like those. I also underrate "popular" movies that I didn't like so I get no more movies like that. It's a good system although lately they seem to be recommending more Mystery! series than I would like.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm on Greencine now, I like it better already. But we'll see after the honeymoon ends.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I await full downloads like others await the Singularity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Ned =

"I vow not to become involved, except when I become involved."

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha pretty much.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Green Cine is going great. One day turnarounds (to/fro), tons of OOP dvds. Much better service. I'm a fan.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

"I vow not to become involved, except when I become involved."

So true. But the pic is broken but I see not what is being linked.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

*scrounges about* Ah right. Hm, never knew Galactus had an equal but opposite opponent.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

*watches ned scrounge, then flounce off*

;-O

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Nonsense, I haven't flounced anywhere yet!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

could they have gotten more of Sleeper Cell?

fuck a very long wait...i have the bitch queued since a release date was announced! technology should know my desire.

― Jimmy_tango, Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

zip.ca did a cap recently so you only get 11 movies a month tops. fuck that.

currently on a free trial at canflix. it sucks but it's free.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 16 March 2006 04:18 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

is it worth it to friends klust people?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

what? friends list

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! Especially people like Alex in SF, because he watches EVERYTHING. I get maybe 1/2 of the stuff on my queue because of the friends lists, things I wouldn't normally have come across.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

one of my friends totally refuses to be anyone's netflix friend, because she doesnt want anyone knowing what she rents

i like my friend list ok - sometimes i get some ideas that way

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i added alex in sf. let's see if he will have me.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

pleasant plains and i are ditching netflix for good this month. no more anxious mailbox waiting.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've been watching movies at a slower clip these days. Sometimes I only get 5 a week heh. I haven't gotten an invite from you Roxy, but I'll totally be your friend.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

under the above address, right?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, with a friends list, you get to see the $0.02 reviews as well as the star rating.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that works.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Still loving GreenCine...

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

i think we're going to switch to greencine after rejoining netflix for two months and getting 3 movies total - two weeks to register movies as "returned" sucks. and then the last one was sent from houston.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

when we first joined we had a 3-4 day return/send turn around to an out of state distribution center. then they put a distribution center in our town and suddenly it takes 7-9 days WTF???

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Downgraded to one disc at a time... At least until I catch up on my other media consumption.

Anyway, friend me too at this address.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

This friends thing is awesome.

Here are some movies your friends like much more than most Netflix customers:

Dumbo
Edward Scissorhands
Animal House

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 11 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jaq, Roxy, and AlexinSF, can i add you to my friends list?

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 11 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

sure thing, this address

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

i was totally underwhelmed by netflix when i tried it. did the 2 week trial, got three films during the period, they claimed they'd sent another 3 by the time i quit but hadn't arrived a week after they sent them. and the distribution center was like 20 mins away.

screenselect.co.uk is pretty decent, and i think they do a free month trial.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

thanks! i need some movie ideas! right now most of my queue is tv shows (six feet under, scrubs, arrested dev, CYI, chappelle... etc).

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Had to cancel :"-(. Turnaround times are now over ten days.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

They added a Memphis dist. center, so turnarounds are very fast now here.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's one where I live too, which makes it frustrating. It used to be one or two days.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

my turnaround time is 1 day -- there's a distribution center in santa ana.

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

my turnaround has been 1 day lately too. my usage has dropped a lot so they probably stopped throttling my account.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

i really want to see 'less than zero' again but no netflix :(

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

mine has been pretty great for the past two months

― Maf54 (plsmith), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this revive was going to be about the Netflix Prize:

And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely

By KATIE HAFNER
Published: October 2, 2006

Netflix, the popular online movie rental service, is planning to award $1 million to the first person who can improve the accuracy of movie recommendations based on personal preferences.

To win the prize, which is to be announced today, a contestant will have to devise a system that is more accurate than the company’s current recommendation system by at least 10 percent. And to improve the quality of research, Netflix is making available to the public 100 million of its customers’ movie ratings, a database the company says is the largest of its kind ever released.

Recommendation systems, also known as collaborative filtering systems, try to predict whether a customer will like a movie, book or piece of music by comparing his or her past preferences to those of other people with similar tastes. Such systems will look at, say, the last 10 books, movies or songs a customer has rated highly and try to extrapolate an 11th.

Computer scientists say that after years of steady progress in this field, there has been a slowdown — which is what Netflix executives say prompted them to offer the problem to a wide audience for solution.

“If we knew how to do it, we’d have already done it,” said Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, based in Los Gatos, Calif. “And we’re pretty darn good at this now. We’ve been doing it a long time.”

Nobody with the company will be eligible to compete, Netflix said, so that it does not appear that the contest favors insiders.

James Bennett, the vice president for recommendation systems, said the company had taken great pains to preserve the anonymity of the 100 million movie ratings it was making available to researchers, even consulting with privacy experts to make sure that the ratings could not be traced to individual Netflix customers.

“The data set is the big deal here,” Mr. Bennett said.

Netflix has already used its data set to test the accuracy of its existing recommendation system, so it will be able to gauge the accuracy of each entrant’s set of predictions, executives said.

Mr. Hastings said he thought it was important to make the ratings database widely available. “Unless you work at Microsoft research or Yahoo research or for Jim Bennett here at Netflix, you won’t have access to a large data set,” he said. “The beauty of the Netflix prize is you can be a mathematician in Romania or a statistician in Taiwan, and you could be the winner.”

John Riedl, a professor of computer science at the University of Minnesota and a pioneer in the field of collaborative filtering, said that Netflix and Amazon now had the most advanced recommendation systems.

“Most of the easy stuff has been squeezed out already,” he said, adding that it had become increasingly difficult to make substantial progress in predicting accuracy.

“Any time you start working on any of these scientific or engineering problems, there’s a period of dramatic improvement,” Professor Riedl said. “It slows down because in a sense you’re competing with 15 years of really smart people banging away at the problem.”

Until now, researchers who have been working to improve recommendation systems have been relying on a much smaller database, a set of one million ratings generated by a Web site called MovieLens, Professor Riedl said. “Having a big data set would be really, really useful,” he said.

Francisco Martin, the chief executive of Mystrands.com, a company in Corvallis, Ore., that is developing a recommendation engine based on what people listen to on iTunes, agreed, saying, “With ratings-based systems, you need to rate everything you see in order to get reasonably accurate recommendations.”

Cash prizes in other difficult technical areas have been offered in recent years. In 2004, there was the $10 million Ansari X Prize for a reusable spacecraft. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is again running a contest involving robotic vehicles with the first prize $2 million. And NASA is offering prize money ranging from $200,000 to more than $5 million for building equipment including lunar excavators and solar sails — large mirror-based equipment intended to collect solar power and conserve rocket fuel.

Mr. Hastings said the Netflix prize was different from some others in that it required a minimal financial investment to compete. “This will be one of the largest truly open prizes that’s ever been done,” he said. “All you need is a PC and some great insight.” He said Netflix would publish a detailed description of the winning approach.

If no one wins within a year, Netflix will award $50,000 to whoever makes the most progress above a 1 percent improvement, and will award the same amount each year until someone wins the grand prize.

Professor Riedl noted that a big improvement in Netflix’s recommendation system would be a boon to the company’s business. “It could result in a significant rise in sales if the recommendations do a better job of helping people find movies they want to see,” he said.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Note to Netflix: Just because I have rented Miyazaki films does not mean I want to watch every episode of Inuyasha and Dragonball Z thanx bye.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you can do all the data mining you want and still not find anything if you continue to base your mental model of people on the assumptions they think in terms of "genres" and "star ratings" and other dumb irrelevant shit like that.

I'd enter but I've got other things to do plus not a real mathematician? Maybe I should write in anyway with a spec.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's probably worth a shot?

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

a themes and styles model (like Pandora for music) should be more accurate, but I don't know that any mathematic/matching model can work for aesthetic pleasures.

Why do I like this Picasso but not that Picasso even though they're from the same period and share the same styles and brushstrokes?

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

how about I give up trying to figure out how you think and figure out if and how I can take you and 5000 other people and put you all in a basket of people who think like that, whether I have a word for that basket or not?

record store genre labels generally tons and tons more effective than movie store genre labels!

1. Find a dozen or more customers whose movie selections over time have had almost no overlap

2. bucket other customers in with them according to who they overlap with the most

3. resample each customers' preferences for bucket fit every 3 months or so, or constantly, whatever

4. recommendations based on past and current preferences of secret "canary" customers determined in step 1. These can also change over time if one starts overlapping with another one too much- resample and find another set whose overlap values are at or below N, then rebucket.

Do this on an ongoing basis, resample and calibrate at least once a quarter.

Also, keep track of what previews are on what DVDs, and evaluate that with queue-add data to see if it has any value.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

and preferences = movies rented and queued. "genre" and "star rating" are completely ditched. We hated Anchorman, loved Talladega Nights. slap your forehead.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

also I guess recommendations could be based on the pool of queued movies of people in the bucket. the more you overlap with someone else, the more their queue is relevant to yours.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

LAST BUT NOT LEAST if a queued movie is sent out and doesn't come back for over X days, it might be a good idea to not evaluate that in the future. If it takes a customer that long to get around to watching the thing and sending it back, they probably were just "uhhhhh" about it and would just as well not be told to watch anything else like it

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Like everytime I look at "Malcolm X" which has been at our house for about 3 months or longer I'm like "uhhhhhh" and yet I still don't send it back

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

NETWORK FLOW BITCHES

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Has anyone tried the Watch Now feature? streaming movies ie only :O

i am watching BRAIN SCAN and drinking wild turkey life is good.

― The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 27 May 2007 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Just checking my "Movies You'll Love" page and one of their new suggestions for me is The French Chef with Julia Child "because you enjoyed Harold and Maude, Spellbound, amd Le Cercle Rouge. Hmm.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

OI FUCK YOU SKIPPY MCSKIPPERTON SKIP BEE DOO
I ALREADY HAD TO SEND THE FIRST COPY BACK CAUSE IT WAS CRACKED
NOW THIS

BRAINSSSSSSSSS

― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 December 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

I've had out 20 movies in the last month. I love it cuz it allows me to see stuff like God Told Me To and to take chances on absolute crap!

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

If you say you like Annie Hall, Netflix will recommend you fucking everything.

― Abbott, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

if your "absolute crap" in this case happens to be a series disc that only comes in box sets of 15, and you get two copies of disc 4 that are basically unplayable, do you sit on disc 5 for ANOTHER three weeks while one of the last remaining copies makes its way to your house on the off chance it's not also in terrible condition, or just give up and be angry?

Also, do you get angry at yourself for liking dumb weird shit and paying for this garbage, or angry at the world for being the lamest place anybody was ever forced to spend their stupid life?

― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, the latter for certain.

― Abbott, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

What even is this 15 disc set? Did you get The King Jame Bible on DVD?

― Abbott, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

I just said "fuck you I'll just pretend I know what's going on I don't care anymore" and fired up disc five. fingers crossed

― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Judges/Ruth/Samuel?

― Abbott, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

i've had increasing numbers of bad discs which i guess is what you'd expect as the inventory gets older. annoying though. especially when it waits until halfway through the movie to suddenly freeze up and die.

meanwhile post office is mad at netflix. someone told me blockbuster uses sturdier packaging, is true? that might protect the discs better too.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 7 December 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think the problems with bad discs are due to packaging. The packaging protects the discs well enough against scratching and smudging, which are the most annoying forms of disc damage. They don't protect very well against cracking, which is annoying, but not as annoying as a scratched disc, because you can instantly see that it's damaged and send it back. The problem with the scratched discs is that you don't know until halfway through the movie that there's a problem. I think that the scratch damage must be caused my people not keeping their discs in the paper sleeves or otherwise mistreating them.

― o. nate, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I've gotten a couple discs lately that look as if someone had been playing frisbee with them prior to sending them back. Or using them as a testing ground for sandpaper, not sure which.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 7 December 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Do you guys REPORT DAMAGED DISC? And do you know if they get rid of those discs when someone does?

― Abbott, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

No, they just rub some vaseline on them and send them off to the next poor tombot.

Seriously, what 15 disc series?

I've been killing the Netflix on-demand feature... all sorts of weird art documentaries on there.

― Kerm, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder what it is like to do a job interview for the job of rubbing vaseline onto shiny silver discs. "So what is your five year plan?"

― Abbott, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

"In five years I think I'd like to be eating less of the vaseline and maybe write something, like a book."

― Kerm, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

You guys seem to have many more issues with cracked discs and scratches than I do. I can only remember 3 of the latter in almost 4 years and maybe a dozen or so discs that have been actually unwatchable (maybe one or two a month have a had scratch serious enough that I miss more than a couple of seconds of something.) I remember having at least as many problems with the latter with stuff from my local videa store.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

okay dumb netflix question--should EVERY disc we get from them have issues? like will freeze in the middle of a scene, and i have to fast forward and then go back to get it to play right? or is it our DVD player?

― Mr. Que, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

i had a bad run of scratched discs, no problems for the last few months. though with my old last-legs dvd player, even almost-new discs would have issues.

― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Is there visible damage on these discs? If so it's the discs. If not then your player might be wonky.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

visible damage=looks like a really scratchy CD? then yes.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

i use the blockbuster online cuz there is one close to me and you get the free in-stores anytime you want.

― carne asada, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

I lied, it's only a ten-disc set. And after watching disc 5 I think I'm going to wait for the new translation of the movies to come out instead, F this noise.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

DAER NETFLIX LACK OF MAC SUPPORT FOR WATCH ONLINE OPTION EAT A DICK.

― John Justen, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I try to always report a disc as damaged if it skips or won't play a section - they give you the option to have another one sent of the same or not, depending on how much of it you were able to watch and how much you care to see the rest.

― o. nate, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

My 1999, $300 player did this. I replaced it with a new $40 player and everything plays fine now.

― abanana, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

So about this "watch instantly" feature:

1) If the quality is shit on my pc laptop, is that just because I lack a good, uh, video card or something?

2) Why do they not have a player for mac and when will they have one for chrissakes?

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 6 April 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

really wanna see the dirt on how their "movies you'll <3" system works

History of the World: Part 1
Because you enjoyed:
Conan the Barbarian

appearance of swords? conan the barbarian is connected to a ton of suggestions...

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly
Because you enjoyed:
The Wire: Season 1
The Wire: Season 2
Eddie Murphy: Delirious

lol black ppl

the intergenre connections are weird too

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Because you enjoyed:
The Fog of War

― gff, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

you enjoy movies about weather phenomena

― n/a, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

2) Why do they not have a player for mac and when will they have one for chrissakes?

^^^^^
yes. wtf.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

Any other Mac-using netflixers tried the streaming player yet? I'm downloading the Silverlight plugin now.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:12 (seventeen years ago)

I was under the impression that this didn't work on Macs.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

New for Macs in the last week or so (in beta).

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

Oh neat. I'll have to take a look. Between baseball and the election I've not watched a lot lately.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=9842

NetFlix goes live for the Mac
by M. Sharp, Insanely Great Mac
November 2nd 2008

VentureBeat reports that Netflix has opened the beta of its Watch Instantly to all of the company's Mac-using subscribers.

For any and all who might be interested (Netflix subscription and Microsoft Silverlight required), here's the opt in form—http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin.

That said, there are some caveats:

• It's a beta, so there will be bugs

• It's a Microsoft-powered beta

• Not all Netflix movie titles are available

• No HD playback

• Using your Mac for playback will count as one of the six devices allowable (ie Roku box, Blu-ray players, etc) under Netflix terms

Previously, Watch Instantly for Mac was a closed beta.

One commenter to that story reports not being able to get it to work.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

probbaly has a ppc mac

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

I don't give money to Internet companies that don't develop for the Mac from day one. There's simply no excuse anymore other than incompetence and tunnel vision.

― fields of salmon, Thursday, 6 November 2008 02:21 (seventeen years ago)

Well ain't you bright and shiny.

Works fine for me -- just watched the first episode of Weeds. Some buffering pauses, but my connection is running about 10% of what it should be for some reason.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 6 November 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

I don't give money to Internet companies that don't develop for the Mac from day one.

"Nor do I search on Google, those toolbar-for-IE-first-developing BASTARDS!!!"

― Suggest Bank (libcrypt), Thursday, 6 November 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

netflix juxtaposition funnies!! I received in the mail today:

Breathless
La Petit Soldat
Speed Racer

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 December 2008 06:20 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

You are receiving this email because you added unlimited Blu-ray access to your account for $1 a month. The number of Blu-ray titles has increased significantly and will continue to do so. As we buy more, you are able to choose from a rapidly expanding selection of Blu-ray titles. And as you've probably heard, Blu-ray discs are substantially more expensive than standard definition DVDs.

As a result, the monthly charge for Blu-ray access is increasing for most plans and will now vary by plan. The charge for monthly Blu-ray access on your 2 DVDs at-a-time (Unlimited) plan will increase from $1 a month to $3 a month. The price of your 2 DVDs at-a-time (Unlimited) plan is not changing and remains at $13.99 a month.

The new charge for Blu-ray access will be automatically added to your next billing statement on or after April 27, 2009 and will be referenced in your Membership Terms and Details.

If you wish to continue unlimited Blu-ray access for $3 a month, you don't need to do anything. If not, you can remove Blu-ray access anytime by visiting Your Account.

If you have questions about this change or need any assistance, please call us anytime at 1-888-923-0898.

-The Netflix Team

― brocktune (jeff), Monday, 30 March 2009 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

Seems fair, I guess. I don't have a Blu-Ray player so it won't affect me.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:25 (seventeen years ago)

At this point, I'm just kind of worried that Netflix will go out of business.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:25 (seventeen years ago)

I thought Blu-Ray prices were starting to drop, at least a little. I'm finding it more common to find them for $25 than the seemingly universal $30 six months ago.

― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I guess I should thank them for calling to my attention how little I use Netflix and especially their bluray discs. I would be willing to pay more if they made signficant additions to their streaming selections. Bluray is unimportant though.

― brocktune (jeff), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

sorry alex, i keep making them lose money by continuing to get dvds through the mail instead of streaming them.

― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

Does blu-ray really look that sweet?

― tenderhoos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

is netflix doing badly? I doubt it will go out of business anytime soon as long as on demand prices for movies continue to be as high as they are. if netflix could get more stuff added to their instant service and get their player service integrated into existing cable boxes they're going to be set for quite a long time.

― akm, Monday, 30 March 2009 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

I'd heard they were doing badly.

I don't stream anything so I'm just as evil as you are to them, Jordan. Plus I just rented teh four hour two disc Hamlet which cost them twice as much to shit to me.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 30 March 2009 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

which cost them twice as much to shit to me.

this could be a clue as to why they're losing money

― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

Plus it's dirty.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 30 March 2009 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

I heard that Netflix were doing great because of the bad economy and everyone staying in instead of going out?

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 30 March 2009 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

srs, i lost my job and upped my netflix orders, no lie.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 30 March 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

am i the only person getting "unresponsive script" errors when i try to reorder my queue with firefox?

FRUSTRATING

― Esprit de Corpsgrinder Fisher (jjjusten), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

esp since out of desperation i just opened IE to fix my queue and it got to the queue and completely froze.

Agggggghghghgghhhh

― Esprit de Corpsgrinder Fisher (jjjusten), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

It's not doing this for me, sorry you are cursed.

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

apparently god doesnt want me to watch Tokyo Gore Police until um 448 movies from now then.

what is troublesome is that im getting the same error on 2 different computers, so if no one else is having this problem, then it must be account based?

― Esprit de Corpsgrinder Fisher (jjjusten), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

my account has been infected with the "Leonard Part 6" virus maybe.

― Esprit de Corpsgrinder Fisher (jjjusten), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

i get that now and then using firefox on my mac. i used to use safari and that never ever worked.

― keem o sobby (jeff), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

i've gotten "unresponsive script" errors too. and yes i use firefox.

― Pull Slinky and Make Me Fart (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

Fuck.

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)

almost every movie in watch instantly says "unavailable." For some reason Degrassi High does not.

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

yeah wtf 1 of the only 3 things it will let me watch instantly is macguyver season 1

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

Does anyone else's DVD queue have WAY more films on 'short wait,' 'long wait,' etc.? Did Netflix just sell off a bunch of discs or is it the more likely option of coincidence?

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)

I just bought the Roku player, has anyone else used it before?

― ti's girl on the outside (musically), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Scarface has been removed from your Queue. We no longer offer this movie for rental. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you find many other movies to enjoy at Netflix.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

Ha! I bet too many people were renting it, keeping it, and saying it was 'lost in the mail' or whatevs.

― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

We quit renting out Fight Club at the video store where I worked bcz people kept stealing it.

― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

why do you have to pay extra for blu-ray? so dumb

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 November 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

yeah that is lame. they're already a bit overpriced as it is.

― akm, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

netflix randomly decided to send me an extra dvd. thanks netflix!

― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

lol at Netflix suggesting I want "Critically-acclaimed Emotional Foreign Movies." Also I don't think they show any other type of 'foreign movies' in America.

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:03 (sixteen years ago)

"Critically-ignored Softcore Porn in the Guise of Arthouse Foreign Movies"

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

Tonight Netflix tells me I like "Visually-striking Cerebral Foreign Movies."

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:15 (sixteen years ago)

have had the PS3 Netflix disc for a while and have hardly watched anything. their selection isn't very good, and anything action-oriented is headache inducing. when the camera pans the whole screen sort of skips around in this weird way. could be my DSL isn't cutting the mustard.

― Buck Utah (rockapads), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:25 (sixteen years ago)

It's almost like they've got a Meyers-Briggs profile for each movie.

― Action Orientation (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:27 (sixteen years ago)

yeah ive been hearing terrible things about the PS3 netflix being a jittery bandwidth hog, which is too bad because it works really well on xbox

― bearinthebumpercaremoticon.jpg (jjjusten), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:27 (sixteen years ago)

"Visually-striking Emotional Foreign Movies "

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

I've only watched one movie with the PS3 disc, Persepolis, and it worked well enough I suppose. But it wasn't anywhere near the quality I'd expect, looked very fuzzy to me. And yeah, the selection is awful awful.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 00:21 (sixteen years ago)

I've been using the hell out of the netflix streaming. The overall selection is mediocore, but there is some really good stuff in there. Lots of good docs and classics I haven't seen. There is more than enough to keep me entertained for months. And the selection seems to get better all the time.

http://instantwatcher.com/ is a really good site for keeping up to date on what's new with the instant watching.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

If you're looking for newer movies you'll be disappointed with the selection, but if you want a seleciton of older movies it's pretty good. I actually looked for this thread to mention that in the last week or so there's been a rather large influx of terrific older movies - Kurosawa & Bergman films among others - and a bunch of new BBC shows.

instantwatcher.com is a great site; I subscribe to Netflix's New Instant Movies RSS feed but it's a bit hard to navigate the site to search for instant films.

― musically, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

There are quite a lot of good newer movies to stream though. The only gap is Hollywood films as far as I can tell and not to get all Morbs, but really who cares?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

I kind of like the limited selection that the watch instantly feature has - it's forced me to finally check out a lot of stuff I've been postponing: the Up series (which is pretty awesome to watch over the course of a few days), Carnival of Souls, lots of stuff from the 30's/40's. And it's nice to have all 3 seasons of 30 Rock on hand when I get bored.

― Darin, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

not surprisingly my high rating of andrei rublev has me on the "critically acclaimed cerebral foreign" list. they are also suggesting "dark dramas" because i like lars von trier.

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Monday, 21 December 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/10/nyregion/20100110-netflix-map.html

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Looking at the Chicago map, it's kind of hilarious to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Rachel Getting Married being rented most often along the affluent North Shore, and Marley and Me doing much better in the suburbs than in the city.

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:20 (sixteen years ago)

hilarious or expected?

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:21 (sixteen years ago)

Hilarious b/c it's expected.

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

I love Netflix on demand so much, although it has led to me watching way too much Doctor Who.

― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 14 January 2010 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

Just got this, starting off with father ted and only fools and horses

― Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Friday, 15 January 2010 01:12 (sixteen years ago)

the LA one is making me sad. Can't someone in Compton rent Vicky Cristina Barcelona? Can't someone in West Hollywood see a Tyler Perry joint?

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 15 January 2010 02:38 (sixteen years ago)

would love to see the maps around the time that Crash came out

<3 <3 <3 netflix for streaming L&O SVU

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Friday, 15 January 2010 02:48 (sixteen years ago)

my nerdy roommate pointed out that the highest frequency "coraline" rentals in boston pretty much lined up with the red line, where many nerds live.

― Maria, Friday, 15 January 2010 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

Hilarious b/c it's expected.

Yeah, hilarious like Milk doing well in the gay urban cores and Bedtime Stories doing well in the child-bearing suburbs.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 15 January 2010 03:04 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Their streaming selection is much improved from the last time I looked! Just watched La Grande Illusion.

― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:03 (sixteen years ago)

there's a ton of good stuff! I watched Claire Denis "L'intrus" yesterday <3<3<3.. in the middle of Chéreau's "Gabrielle" right now & am reserving judgment for the moment

"La regle du jeu" is on streaming as well btw

― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

Just starting Dreyer's Vampyr now.

― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

in the middle of Chéreau's "Gabrielle" right now & am reserving judgment for the moment

have been dithering over seeing gabrielle so if you want to add to the chorus please recommend/badmouth

― schlump, Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:47 (sixteen years ago)

i voted it number one in the films of the 2000s poll. it's a masterpiece. utterly unique and magnificent.

― jed_, Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I am getting sick of seeing 'very long wait' for every new movie that comes out. I expect it with huge blockbusters, but even Black Dynamite is showing that to me. This didn't used to happen, and I've been a subscriber for years, and am always quick to return movies, so I don't really get why it's so bad right now. Anyone else think this is worse than it has been?

― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 22 February 2010 08:05 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, started in December for whatever reason. This, combined with their blu-ray premium, their delay of new warners discs, and 15 out of 20 blu-rays being cracked, drove me at least temporarily into the dying arms of Blockbuster. I'm having fun with in store exchanges but I don't think the store is going to be around for much longer. The main downsides to the switch are that Blockbuster shipping turnaround is about a day slower, no console streaming and a few titles aren't available on Blu-ray. Blockbuster also lists many new titles as short or long waits, but they seem to ship faster anyway.

Apparently, all the cracked discs are due to the post office running them through machines. When they get enough complaints, they dispatch a fixer to the branch in question. This seems to be a bigger problem for more fragile blu-ray discs. It's worth noting that I've had nothing cracked from Blockbuster.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

I'm really annoyed because I've loved Netflix for so long and recommended them to everyone, but it seems like they've lost their way lately on some pretty critical things.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 09:37 (sixteen years ago)

been seeing the 'very long wait' more and more but it doesn't really bother me, Netflix still beats anything else i'd be doing to get the same fix. only bummer is sometimes by the time i get around to renting a new release it's already playing on HBO or whatever and i feel like it was a waste of a rental.

on my local rental charts, the top 5 horror movies include all 3 Underworld movies. I do not know why that is.

― OMG Thanx Jeezy (some dude), Monday, 22 February 2010 10:52 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, the streaming capability is one reason I don't just dump them. I feel kind of like I helped make Netflix a monopoly (at least for mail-order movie rentals), and now that it is one, it's getting shitty and there's nothing I can do about it other than "boycott" it by canceling. And then I start thinking... I guess it's not that big a deal if I have to wait a few weeks to see a new movie. It's not just new movies, though. I wanted to watch 'Damages', and for some reason disc 1 of season 1 is 'short wait'.

I hope in a few years, subscription-based streaming services will rule the day. The concept of having to deal with having hard copies of movies or music seems old-fashioned.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 22 February 2010 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

seems to me that its most very long wait on new releases, which are always the easiest to torrent? i do fine by torrenting the newest stuff and using netflix for slightly older/more difficult-to-find movies

obv thats not a 'legal' solution but

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

def. agree that streaming would be my choice for the way of the future. id probably pay the $8/mo im paying right now just for the streaming service without the DVD portion.

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

thing about torrents is I'd rather watch new movies on my tv instead of my computer monitor. I haven't figured out how to stream HD stuff from my PC to the PS3.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

u can't do a monitor cable straight into the TV?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

For brand new movies you have to make sure that you have return a movie on the Saturday before the movie's release date. In most cases I will get new releases on the Tuesday they come out if I have an next available movie spot on Monday morning. But yeah sometimes its just a forever wait (Paranormal Activity has been at VERY LONG WAIT since it came out.)

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:10 (sixteen years ago)

thing about torrents is I'd rather watch new movies on my tv instead of my computer monitor. I haven't figured out how to stream HD stuff from my PC to the PS3.

http://tversity.com/

― Jack the Dude-Kicker (HI DERE), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

every torrent i've ever seen looks like garbage and most people watch them on their retarded computer screens. not paying the competley tiny and fair amount of money it takes to have a netflix account is some true savagery imo

― allyboy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

hey whiney

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

not sure who youre arguing with

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

but im glad you feel passionately about something

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

I've tried tversity and the windows 7 media server, and it's choppy as fuck. I think it's because Wi-Fi is the only way my PS3 can talk to my PC (my PC is in the other room, and it's not worth moving the whole thing). I've also tried using my laptop to connect directly, but couldn't get it to look right (probably due to super shitty video card in laptop).

Alex, that's a good tip - I'll give that a shot next time. I just want to see Zombieland, dammit. It's been sitting at the top of my queue since it came out.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

I got annoyed with occasional wifi (old airport express) choppiness and just use a thumb drive. Make a root level folder called VIDEO and the PS3 will see it and play almost anything.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

Also, I would just torrent everything but I like watching in Blu-ray quality if possible.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

I just recently got my PC video card plugged into my TV and have been watching some movies off my Watch Instantly queue. There's enough stuff on there to keep me busy for a while, but I'm starting to wonder if they will ever manage to expand the list of streaming movies in a truly meaningful way.

― Moodles, Monday, 22 February 2010 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

hi-def torrents arent too hard to find, especially for big h'wood movies! theyre much larger files, granted, and my shitty laptop cant play them. but a PS3 could.

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 18:55 (sixteen years ago)

Does the amount of wait you have depend on how far up your list it is? I've got some new stuff in the middle of my (60+) list so it's not a high priority, but would you get it sooner if you left it at the top?

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 22 February 2010 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

You get the first available movie that's in your queue.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

HD torrents aren't bad at all, but visibly (and audibly) not as good as a real Blu-ray.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

I hope in a few years, subscription-based streaming services will rule the day. The concept of having to deal with having hard copies of movies or music seems old-fashioned.

If internet connections were as reliable as electricity, I could see this, but I don't think I've ever had really consistently reliable broadband service where I am (Burlington, VT area). I do a fair amount of streaming on Netflix but almost invariably have to refresh the page several times in the course of viewing, and things sometimes go completely dead. This is the main problem I have with the idea that all media and information should just be accessed online. It's even worse when you rely on a website to do your job/studies (as at the high school I work at) and every third morning it's down.

Anyway, there are some 230 DVDs in my Netflix queue and only three of them are listed as having a short or long wait, and I've had fewer problems lately with damaged discs than in the past. I don't use blu-ray yet, though.

― eatandoph, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:22 (sixteen years ago)

xxp But there must be some way of determining who gets an in-demand dvd. A previous Netflix type service I used a while back would give you priority if you had a sought-after film at the top of your list compared to someone who had it lower down. So I would have thought that it would be some combination of amount of time you've waited for it x priority?

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

Also, some people are saying that the "long wait" times are due to the holidays (new subscribers etc), but I've never had this problem in all my years as a customer.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

xp
Sorry that sounded a bit stupid. What I was wondering is if I could put it at the top of my queue and have the 'wait' time appear shorter just because I wanted it more.

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

"But there must be some way of determining who gets an in-demand dvd. "

Probably but the logic is probably so arcane that I wouldn't bother stressing about it. How many Very Long Wait movies do you guys have anyway that this is such an enormous issue?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

xpost

With Netflix it's supposedly whatever is available when they receive your last envelope. They will mail to you your #1 choice if available. If not then #2, if not then #3. Simple as that.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

"What I was wondering is if I could put it at the top of my queue and have the 'wait' time appear shorter just because I wanted it more."

It won't change the "wait" time as posted, but you'll get it sooner cuz it's at the top of your queue!

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

When I paused my service, 8 of my top 10 were "Very Long Wait". It had been that way since the end of November.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

Switching to DVD usually made them slightly less of a wait. However, Blu-ray is pretty much the only reason I'm using a mailing service anyway.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

I guess the movies I want to watch no one else cares about then. I see this happen with some brand new releases, but I usually get them within a couple of weeks.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

Only one is a V long wait! (Maybe more when I've gone thru the ILX film poll). Just intersted in the logic behind it, is all.
Just had a look at their FAQs and they don't really say except that you may get a 'differentiated' service depending on how you use your account, and they tend to give priority to those who receive fewest DVDs (all other things being equal).

I've never had a problem with Netflix, great service actually. Think once I've had an unwatchable disk and one time I had to wait an extra day while processing.

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

And to be clear, the DVD's definitely had waits too (something I had almost never experienced previously).

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

Ah Blu-ray. Okay that's a whole different animal.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

who gives a fuck, if you have to wait they send you an extra dvd!

― allyboy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

i have 500 discs in my queue and three are short waits. no problems on this end.

― jeff, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

For years, I've been able to get new releases within a week of release. Now I can't. They're not managing service level expectations very well.

And Fig, I'm talking about DVD wait times too.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

xxp obviously some people give a fuck.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

well obviously, but WHY?

― allyboy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

they send you an extra one and then the one you wanted comes A WHOLE DAY LATER...

this is a degree of whiny tight-assery that should be filed under some word that "first world problems" won't adequately cover

― allyboy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

They send you the next one in your queue, but they won't send the one you want until it is 1. in stock, and 2. they receive the next envelope from you.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

When it takes 5 weeks for those stars to align it can be annoying.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

IN MY DAY WE HAD TO GO TO THE PENNY ARCADE AND FEED THE MACHINE

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

stop being such a white tight ass spencer

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

oh wait that said whiny

― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

WAIT A MINUTE, I'M CHANGING THE REEL ON THIS NEW BLOCKBUSTER 'THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY'. THE CANNISTERS WERE JUST DROPPED OFF VIA PONY EXPRESS LAST MONTH.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

That's half-whiny to you!

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

Inglorius Basterds has been at the top of my queue since it was released on DVD and it is still listed as Very Long Wait.

I agree that after a while, this gets pretty annoying.

― Moodles, Monday, 22 February 2010 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

"this is a degree of whiny tight-assery that should be filed under some word that "first world problems" won't adequately cover"

This is amazingly rich.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 21:49 (sixteen years ago)

xp Weird - I just put IB in my queue to see, and it was listed as available "Now". Oh, Netflix, you and your shady algorithms.

― Nhex, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

Sure, but will it say "Now" when it's time for Netflix to actually send it to you?

― Moodles, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

Good point!

― Nhex, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

It's interesting that you would see different availability. You're both looking at DVD, not Blu-ray?

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:25 (sixteen years ago)

do you guys live near each other?

― jeff, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:26 (sixteen years ago)

I added Paranormal Activity to our queue about a week before it was released, but there were two movies ahead of it. When I sent the disc before it back I checked the availability and it said "Long Wait", but it still showed up in our mailbox two days later.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2010 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

yeah I hit em up for Serious Man like 4 days ago and it said "long wait" but then it arrived on Saturday

― king willie style (will), Monday, 22 February 2010 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah I get Long Wait movies all the time (like BLACK DYNAMITE.)

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

I'm glad I posted here, because it is clear that you people are the reasons for my long waits! first few movies on my queue that have been getting skipped: A Serious Man, Zombieland, Black Dynamite... and then Hurt Locker and Inglourious, which I got so sick of waiting for I just bought them on Blu-Ray (cheap on amazon).

― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

Well I got Black Dynamite on Friday and returned it the next day. Same with Hurt Locker.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah its awesome because I call them and say, "hey, could you please not send this movie over to richie aprile (rockapads) and send it over to me instead?", and they are always like, "sure! no problem".

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

i knew it!

― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

Don't worry, I'm going to go after Alex in SF's movies next. You should start getting yours again!

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

I have Black Dynamite out right now, btw.

― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

plz to hurry so i can watch, lol, and post my opinions to the black dynamite thread. thx.

-r.a.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

Out of 455:

Very Long Wait
Paranormal Activity
Zombieland
Beau Travail
Inglorious Basterds

Long Wait
Igby Goes Down
Band of Brothers Disc 1
Gladiator

Short Wait
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre
Family Nest
The Deer Hunter
Ball of Wax
Country Boys Disc 1
The September Issue
Dead Snow

― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

That's really weird because I just now checked my queue and Zombieland is 3rd on the list and says 'Now'.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 04:39 (sixteen years ago)

When I sent the disc before it back I checked the availability and it said "Long Wait", but it still showed up in our mailbox two days later.

I've never had to wait very long for a "long wait" movie, tbh. Usually two or three days.

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 05:00 (sixteen years ago)

watch less new movies, they generally suck

― paul wall destroyer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe you should watch more new movies, which suck less

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

FWIW, 3 of the very long waits are blu Ray.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:25 (sixteen years ago)

Do you guys all live near each other? I would think wait time would correlate very closely to which distribution center you were closest to.

― Jack the Dude-Kicker (HI DERE), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

Apparently the one copy of Inglorious Basterds at the Austin distro center is in constant demand. I guess ol' QT is pretty popular around here...

― Moodles, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

I'm in Chicago.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:55 (sixteen years ago)

I was only ever annoyed when I got a movie after a wait and then it was too scratched to play.

― mh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:58 (sixteen years ago)

that's annoying, but also a situation where they will send you a new copy as soon as you report the problem.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:26 (sixteen years ago)

They're customer service has been great. There have been some issues with syncing on the watch instantly movies, and each time I've reported the issue, they've given me a credit on my account.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

isn't it also a function of now many movies you rent per month? i'm absolutely terrible, keep things for weeks (i do use Roku all the time though) so Netflix is dying to keep my business - I think I got Hurt Locker the day after I put it at the top of my queue, same w Inglourious Basterds.

― musically, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:16 (sixteen years ago)

This is something that really bugs me with how they prioritize things. The more moeny you spend and the more movies you can get at once, the slower your service is. Kind of strikes me as ass-backwards.

― Moodles, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

Netflix, every time I think "Oh I'm just going to cancel this for a few months" and go to the website and see how cheap it is and how many movies I get, I can't bear myself to do it. Recently I moved and where I moved to there is a 1-2 day return on movies if I mail them out in the morning at the post box down the street.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I watch 3 a week easily, sometimes more. That's not even including streaming stuff. No matter how pissy I get, it's still well worth my money until I get to the point where I've seen everything I want to see. It seems like it would make more sense that they would send new movies to people who watch and return movies quickly, but I guess not.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:00 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know about that, because I've had friends who had their accounts essentially throttled for returning movies too quickly. A couple years ago a friend of mine was laid off and burning through movies, he'd get the mail and watch a movie he just got only to drop in back in the mail later that same day. Eventually they started holding movies 3-4 days before sending them to him and when called, they told him his account had "suspicious activity". I don't know if they thought he was just borrowing and copying them or what, but it was pretty weird.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

http://feedfliks.com

I keep an eye on this to make sure I'm getting my money's worth. With DVDs and the Instant Watch movies I view, I'm spending 59 cents a movie. I'd say that's worth it. Hell, I've been a Netflix member for 10 years, I doubt I cancel it anytime soon.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

shit tons of Comedy Central/MTV/Nickelodeon shows just added, Chapelle's Show and Reno 911 will keep me busy for a long time

― musically, Saturday, 22 May 2010 06:22 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I put A Serious Man on our queue when it first came out on DVD in February, it's been on the top of our queue the entire time, and they are just sending it to us today. Don't usually have to wait that long for a new movie, especially a popular (ie not obscure) one. I wonder why it took so long?

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

They're just not buying as many discs. They're in this limbo right now where they are pushing streaming at the cost of new releases in a number of ways. It's cheaper for them and will probably be good in the long run, but it's pretty aggravating for users at the moment. I think eventually they want to stream everything and charge instant premiums for new movies. When everything is available that will be great for most people (although I'll be the old man with my blu-rays).

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

just got the disc from netflix that lets you stream stuff to yr wii. pretty awesome except now I feel like there's another pile of movies in my house I'll never get around to watching.

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

fair warning, the wii/netflix interface is pretty annoying

― apparently not the band, but the lifestyle (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

I like the wii/netflix interface! But I'm just weird that way.

― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, I only played with it for a couple of minutes, seemed kinda chaotic but I guess if you add things to yr instant queue using the website it's a little easier to manage. my main issue is there doesn't seem to be any parental controls, which presents a challenge in letting the little ones watch up and pee-wee's big adventure without exposing them to the likes of antichrist and flesh for frankenstein.

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)

Or 9 Songs which is also on Watch Instantly

― Blog is a concept by which we measure our pain (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

antichrist has a talking fox in it so it has to be good for kids, right?
but srsly, that is a good point. we have netflix on demand going through Roku now, and yeah, no parental controls as far as I can see. don't have to worry about that at the moment w/ a 10-month old, but it does seem like something that should be available.

― tylerw, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

If I was 12 years old today I think it would take me about 6 minutes to realize I could sort the Watch Instantly catalog by the tag 'steamy'.

― Blog is a concept by which we measure our pain (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

they liked the fantastic mr fox so...

I guess it's not any worse then when their mother left her dexter dvd in the player: "there were people getting killed so we turned off the tv"

another quarter in the therapy jar lol

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Why do things keep being taken off of streaming Netflix? Are they rotating stuff or what?

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, they rotate stuff.

― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Monday, 9 August 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

Esp. the stuff that's on NetFlix cuz it's on Starz or IFC or whatever.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 August 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

i really need to get a roku box

― akm, Monday, 9 August 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

tell me more about it. Mrs Adam can get one cheap from work

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

roku is pretty cool. we've had occasional low-quality issues, but not that many. very easy interface.

― tylerw, Monday, 9 August 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)

I don't understand how it magically connects to the Internet.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 August 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

magic?

― tylerw, Monday, 9 August 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)

woah

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)

you have a wii so I don't think you need one.

― akm, Monday, 9 August 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

it doesn' tmagically connect to the internet, it connects to your local wifi.

― akm, Monday, 9 August 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

but if your wife can get one cheap for me that would be lovely.

― akm, Monday, 9 August 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

Can I request your wife do the same, Adam?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)

Oh it isn't an official work thing, just a dude who is selling his haha

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

But if you like theme parks, I can get you a good deal

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

we might need that soon too. ian asks to go to disneyland roughly 700 times an hour. ok that is an exaggeration.

― akm, Monday, 9 August 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

FIne. Do you know how expensive that place is for "normals"?? *shudder*

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

it doesn' tmagically connect to the internet, it connects to your local wifi.

Oh. I don't have one of those.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

you can also just plug it into your internet connection if you have a router.

― akm, Monday, 9 August 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

not bad

― Aerosol, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

what is up with netflix not getting new movies on DVD until like a month after they're available in stores? saw "bored to death" in target the other day, netflix has it coming out oct. 19. similar deals with "get him to the greek" and "macgruber"

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)

Apparently the movie companies have decided to dick over NetFlix by offering these things to OnDemand and Target, Walmart, etc, first.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

argh fuck them
you are a dying industry, get over it, record labels and book and magazine publishers already have

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

Funny you should ask.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

i think their model is slow and steady for online and just hold down a solid catalog and that's the model I'll support.

― Muscus ex Craneo Humano (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

oh my god you're gonna have to wait a month to see macgruber

― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

if you miss of-the-moment parodies like macgruber when they first come out you might as well not see them

― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

For example, “Robin Hood,” starring Russell Crowe, is available to stream on Amazon but will not be available on Netflix until Oct. 19.

I completely forgot this had even come out.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

And yeah, I don't really mind waiting a month to see new releases, since if I really wanted to see it that badly, I would've seen it in the theater.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

truth bomb right there

― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago)

OnDemand used to be a month behind the DVD street date iirc

any oldsters remember when you couldn't buy VHS/DVDs until a few months after they hit the video stores? (who paid like $89.99/copy)

― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

I remember throwing a tantrum when I was 12 and breaking a rented VHS tape in the process and then freaking out because I thought I would owe $89.

(Actually, I have no idea what happened with this.)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first VHS my parents bought, cost $49 on sale at Specs in spring '85.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

Raiders was our first video too. the electronics store in the mall had all the tapes behind glass w/ holes to stick your hand in to view a box. shit was wicked $$. i learned to copy rentals real quick.

― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:22 (fifteen years ago)

When I bought the coaxial cable at Radio Shack that allowed me to copy videotapes, I was in hog heaven. This was '95, I think. I still own some of those transfers.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

unless those originals has "copyguard."

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

I remember that for a rented video tape I saw at my sister's apt, we had to rent a VHS player too. And they were large and heavy back then.

I held out on buying a VCR until the price had plunged to about $350.

― nickn, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

saw goonies recently for the first time on VHS and that shit looked HI-DEF, not kidding. hold on to your decks!

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

I have a) a baby and b) no money so I'm seeing all of my movies at home these days.

and obv it's not a huge deal to see mcgruber a month later but part of the deal with netflix is that it's "just like getting dvds from the video store except they come to your house!" except it's not, when netflix doesn't get the movies for a month after every one else. and maybe right now it's just mcgruber (which noted movie critic and bon vivante s1ocki LOVED btw) and other dumb shit but I think these staggered releases are some shady shit and probably eventually the studios are going to think "hey why don't we just hold back everything from netflix" and basically it just sucks

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

i wonder why all these asshole movie companies don't just bend over backwards to help out the people with no money to give them.

― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

it's bending over backwards to release their movies on dvd to everyone at the same time?

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

i mean, i can see why it's a little frustrating to you, obv. But you can't deny that there is money to be made in releasing a DVD for sale ($14) a month earlier than a Netflix rental (appx $2 to $7)

― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah I can understand the business side of it, duh. But I still think it's kind of a dick move, and one that isn't going to endear movie studios to the public (or at least the public with Netflix accounts), which is ultimately a bad business move.

Plus as far as I can tell, these movies are available at Blockbuster and other video stores, which presumably pay the studios the same amount per DVD that Netflix does. So it seems like they're specifically screwing Netflix, even though they get the same amount of money from Netflix that they do from other video stores. But maybe there's some contractual nitty-gritty here that I don't know about.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

I mean obviously I'm just griping about this as a consumer because it's inconvenient to me, yeah, and ultimately I don't really care about the details of the business aspects. But are movie studios even making significant money off DVD sales of things like McGruber to individuals anymore? It seems like most of the sales would be to video stores and distributors.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

well, netflix saves a little money on their contracts now and can put that money towards streaming. i would assume the studios also bought netflix off by offering more movies to add to netflix's streaming catalog. i would imagine that new releases aren't a major part of netflix's earnings anyhow. the long term streaming deals are bound to benefit them the most.

― jeff, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:34 (fifteen years ago)

also, netflix is rolling out streaming only subscriptions

― jeff, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, from the reports I remember reading, jeff nailed it - in return for giving Netflix greater access to some of themajor studios' back catalogs, Netflix agreed to wait for new releases to give the studios a chance to make bigger money on sales.

But, as n/a alluded to, I don't know that it is really working as well as the studios had hoped.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

i'd bet on netflix in the long run; as the times piece points out, it's less cash to break in to the streaming business than to get the postage up but NFlix has been really smart and innovative more or less from jump and they don't appear to be doing anything except moving the goalposts away from competitors at the moment

― Muscus ex Craneo Humano (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:28 (fifteen years ago)

But are movie studios even making significant money off DVD sales of things like McGruber to individuals anymore?

US DVD sales of Prince of Persia were $15 million last week.

― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:45 (fifteen years ago)

were those all to individuals or does that include sales to distributors, video stores, etc?

also Prince of Persia isn't exactly comparable to McGruber in terms of marketing push and (probably) viewer interest

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)

those are individual sales, so it excludes distributors, rental stores, etc...

Even if McGruber only pulls in a quarter of the Prince of Persia in a week that's still nothing to sniff at from the studios. They don't like rentals getting more popular, of course.

― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:13 (fifteen years ago)

macgruber seems like it was designed for home video

― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

Hey guys, I am overworked and I need something as escapist as possible that can take me away from thesis work/stress for 70-90 mins. Must be on streaming NF. Any recs? Ponyo? Crank 2?

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

That's P-O-N-Y-O, btw. Netflix is a family service.

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

Ponyo is cool if you like:
- ancient species of fish
- ham

― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

Also pretty high on old people content.

I liked it.

― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

I don't know that I really do like those things. I like funny things

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:52 (fifteen years ago)

Also, I'm Jewish, so ham is pretty heavy for me, in terms of semiotics

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

i imagine i'd enjoy ponyo and crank 2 much more if they were the same movie.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

I want to see Crank 1 but it is not there. Ditto Transporter.

You know...Crank One!

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

Ponyo also has a cool ancient wizard who has a water pump.

It doesn't have a lot of laughs per minute, though...at all.

― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

Oh - Friday! I've actually never seen that

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

How the fuck are you going to let me watch the first disc of a series and then shitcan the whole fucking thing w no warning? This just happened with Dexter season 4

― http://www.ilxor.com/glyloop.mp3 (Aerosol), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

Keep an eye of what's coming up and what's going on on Instant with this: InstantWatcher

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:01 (fifteen years ago)

gukbe, that is exactly what i've been looking for. thanks, you're a peach!

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:15 (fifteen years ago)

That meant to say "what's going down" as in being taken off. there's a list.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

why would they take off an incredibly popular show like dxtr!?

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

They're about to raise their prices too. I went up to 3 discs because it wasn't much more than 2, but gonna go back to 2 and get around to streaming more.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 07:26 (fifteen years ago)

so i guess netflix had an issue with Showtime regarding Dexter. looks like they ironed d it out because it's back on today.

― http://www.ilxor.com/glyloop.mp3 (Aerosol), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

did this site just go down

― *kl0p* (deej), Monday, 31 January 2011 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

yeah I can't log in. streaming works though

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 31 January 2011 04:03 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://grab.by/grabs/098e51add3f6f190bf4231d25ad2ad13.png

― gr8080, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

oh man, i really wanted to see that

― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

We’re sorry, the Netflix website and the ability to instantly watch movies are both temporarily unavailable.

However, our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs so your order is in process as usual.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

wonder what specifically causes these outages

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

It's my fault. I tried sorting all the "steamy romances" by my predicted star rating.

― What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 01:10 (fifteen years ago)

Huh, now it's switched around:

We’re sorry, the Netflix website and our DVD shipping operations are temporarily down.
You can still instantly watch movies via your Netflix ready device.

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

i will probably take this back soon enough, since i just signed up bc there is a free 1-month trial and instant watch is a thing in canada now, but:
Canadian Netflix is some bullshit

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:33 (fifteen years ago)

due to two moves and my lack of organization, I now have had 4 DVDs checked out since December of 2007. I've paid the minimal fee each month to avoid having to pay replacement fees, though that's kind of moot now that I've probably made more than I would have.

The good news is, I now know where all of them are. Don't have the sleeves or the envelopes, but I can send them back and start renting again!

― check out my malady (San Te), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

like, how is everything i want to watch 'not available'? The Wire, 24, the sopranos. i am trying to catch up on years of tv culture here, ca.netflix.com
xp

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

there's a lot of "seriously, you don't have this??"s on Netflix. I was surprised the last time I used the streaming service.

What I hate the most is when they have a sequel but not the original movie.

― check out my malady (San Te), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

you have to treat it like a disorganized book store: browse for something that looks fun and interesting rather than go in expecting to find something specific

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

n/a otm

― check out my malady (San Te), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

tbh though that's why I still prefer the rental service. the streaming picture quality kinda sucks too (even on the television).

plus teh speed of the service makes it easy to watch an assload of movies. I had the 4-dvd plan at one point, and since work has a mailroom, I would watch a movie, then go to the mailroom and drop it off teh next day. watched 20 movies in a span of 3 weeks that month.

even on a 1-dvd plan you could rack em up fast.

― check out my malady (San Te), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

ah, yes, i kinda get that, but no, aren't these extremely popular tv series available in the US? i do believe they are...
eesh, can't even watch x-files. but they do have farscape :)
xps
i don't even have a dvd player at the moment! lol netbook. quality picture is not where i am at. soon tho.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

HBO series generally aren't on netflix streaming, but i think 24 is

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, but they're not even available for ordering on dvd o_O
tbh canada is just not very good at the internet in general :/ i mean, we're getting there, fingers crossed, upcoming election and all that

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

24, dexter, I think the x files is on there now. but HBO shows are not. some showtimes series are.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 00:16 (fifteen years ago)

the picture quality has gotten a lot better (for me) lately. I imagine there are all sorts of regional problems with that.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

it depends largely on the bandwidth of your connection. I have shitty dsl and the image quality is pretty subpar over appltv. ok for some things but anything with lots of motion it's a digitized mess.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 01:58 (fifteen years ago)

i am enjoying the hell out of the young indiana jones on instant watch

― they call him (remy bean), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:12 (fourteen years ago)

First four seasons of Mad Men coming to streaming in July.

― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

Battlestar Galactica has been eating up my late nights recently since they added the miniseries.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

i watched all of season one of farscape in 3 days last week
tbh

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

if you'd been meaning to get into the That's So Raven fandom, now's the time! all seasons on instant watch!

― burn me at the stake if you must (reddening), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

PREDATOR

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/JohnnyDA/gifs/duckhuntpredator.gif

― three megabytes of hot RAM (abanana), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

― akm, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:58 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Yeah you would think so, but I haven't moved or changed internet services and it has steadily gotten better. I'm impressed so far; I thought they'd start cutting quality as more and more people used the service.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:46 (fourteen years ago)

Toy Story 3 is streaming

― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

like, how is everything i want to watch 'not available'? The Wire, 24, the sopranos. i am trying to catch up on years of tv culture here, ca.netflix.com

haha this is the most irritating thing abt living in canada i think fwiw ive been told its licensing issues & that theyre mostly being worked out - i guess the amount of content is already exponentially better than it was @ launch

kinda lol but i was having brunch w/ ~media ppl~ this weeknd & heard a lot abt how 'theres no money in tv anymore' & was like... all you do is buy american programming and force ppl to watch your commercials. this is p much the easiest business to run in the world. anyway the digital rights for shit is already p locked up & netflix i guess is just negotiating it all...

― 松 (▩ ▨ ▧ ▦ ▥ ▤ ▣) ☃ ☃ oooh ive been so good this year (Lamp), Thursday, 7 April 2011 05:35 (fourteen years ago)

Re: quality, I've been streaming to tv via Apple TV, with att uverse--surprisingly the quality is pretty good for most tv, newer movies don't seem to look as sharp.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

HEY, FUCK YOU NETFLIX

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

they're changing their pricing plans to make it more expensive to stream AND get physical DVDs

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

well, i barely ever use physical dvds so its a couple bucks cheaper 4 me ^__^

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:04 (fourteen years ago)

kinda sux, but I stream 95% of the time anyway no bigz

xp ha

― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

if they ever get HBO to stream their tv shows i would totally ditch physical discs, but alas

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

i need to get the wire on dvd already and then it will be cheaper for me, too

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

lol xp

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:07 (fourteen years ago)

i'm hooked on bluray

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:16 (fourteen years ago)

i love dvds http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

― dave cool, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

oh dave cool. you love everything.

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/f/fe/It%27sRoy.jpg

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

dave cool wasn't really using the streaming part anyway. new system saved me a couple a bones http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

― dave cool, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

^^^this

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

ive had 'i love you man' for going on three months

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:27 (fourteen years ago)

but ive watched "R.O.T.O.R." like 8 times

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:27 (fourteen years ago)

via streaming

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:27 (fourteen years ago)

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, 13 July 2011 04:28 (fourteen years ago)

I think the USPS will be the main loser here, and maybe not even them.

― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:29 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:30 (fourteen years ago)

i don't even bother getting movies now, but i still burn thru dvds of tv shows

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:31 (fourteen years ago)

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

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

― dave cool, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

― 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?"

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

there is an unbelievable amount of whining about this going on on the internet right now

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:36 (fourteen years ago)

shut up, "the internet"

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:36 (fourteen years ago)

is there a facebook whining page yet so we can lol @ ppl

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

strawmen come to life

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

let us keep paying $15 for unlimited movie rentals and on demand streaming IMO

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

1 million strong for being mad doggie @ netflix!

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:38 (fourteen years ago)

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"

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

im just crossposting all my ilx posts to twitter now #twitter #fb

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:42 (fourteen years ago)

dave cool otm btw

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

when I was a kid I got a tour of the netflix office with the mayor

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:50 (fourteen years ago)

they gave me Erin Brokovich for some reason to this day I don't know why

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:50 (fourteen years ago)

not really netflix office tho, rather, netflix factory

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:51 (fourteen years ago)

where they make netflixes?

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 05:01 (fourteen years ago)

netflixes are brought by storks ffs

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 05:03 (fourteen years ago)

it was a netflix factory where people package and send netflixes

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 05:48 (fourteen years ago)

Guess it's time to send back this Hurt Locker that I've had since November.

― bernerrrrr! berrrrrnowwww.... (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 06:01 (fourteen years ago)

My plan just got 8 dollars pricier per month. :(

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 06:02 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 06:21 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:03 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:01 (fourteen years ago)

^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

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:03 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Moodles, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

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

― united arab amirites (dave cool), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:26 (fourteen years ago)

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

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:27 (fourteen years ago)

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

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

― united arab amirites (dave cool), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

dave cool has opinions 4 u

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:40 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:04 (fourteen years ago)

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

― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:29 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

maybe the movies you're picking are shy

― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:39 (fourteen years ago)

they are shy because they are indecent.

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)

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

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:57 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:35 (fourteen years ago)

that post uses the word "seem" a lot

―  (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 16:42 (fourteen years ago)

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??

― six or less and racist (reddening), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, Party Down is the only thing I'm streaming right now; when I finish s2 I will probably go to discs-only for various reasons. I did notice that British comedy 'Pulling' is available to stream, which is pretty cool.

― kinder, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

It’s hard for me to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary and best: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to “Qwikster”.
We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name “Netflix” for streaming.

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html

http://i.imgur.com/tMqTM.gif

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

Qwikster will be the same website and DVD service that everyone is used to. It is just a new name, and DVD members will go to qwikster.com to access their DVD queues and choose movies.

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

For me the Netflix red envelope has always been a source of joy. The new envelope is still that distinctive red, but now it will have a Qwikster logo.

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:40 (fourteen years ago)

.... really?

― Nhex, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:41 (fourteen years ago)

i'm quoting from a blog post from the ceo, so

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:42 (fourteen years ago)

nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD

― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 19 September 2011 04:42 (fourteen years ago)

ugh. I don't give a crap about the new name, but the queue thing is just a pain. There have been a good many occasions where a film in my DVD queue has turned up streaming, and my queue lets me know that. This is especially relavant re: new releases that go to streaming. I would have wasted a DVD of 13 Assassins being sent had I not noticed that it went up on Streaming almost immediately upon release.

― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

Quikster.

― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 04:46 (fourteen years ago)

Guk, theyre counting on that

― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 04:46 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I know. The shits.

Anyway, you can't kill Blockbuster and then leave me without an avenue with which to to watch Prom soon after it is released.

― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:48 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/uO5iH.png

―  (gr8080), Monday, 19 September 2011 04:50 (fourteen years ago)

<3 pizza imo

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 04:57 (fourteen years ago)

ahahaha

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Monday, 19 September 2011 04:58 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Tn8n5CIPk

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 05:01 (fourteen years ago)

finding this guys "sorry guys, really sorry" attitude to not be very winning

― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

the video was . . . not good

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

maybe the dvd version is better

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe they're serious about this, it sounds like a bad SNL joke

― toy and candy planet (reddening), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)

sqwikster

― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)

yeah p sure this is a horrible idea

―  (gr8080), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Monday, 19 September 2011 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

Anyway, you can't kill Blockbuster and then leave me without an avenue with which to to watch Prom soon after it is released.

In the weekly set of coupons I get via snailmail, Blockbuster has supplied a flier for a "Goodbye Netfilx/Hello Blockbuster" 30 day free trial program. This is probably the best thing to happen to them in a long time.

― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Sunday, September 18, 2011 7:38 PM (21 seconds ago)

omg looool

―  (gr8080), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:39 (fourteen years ago)

Don't bother telling me who my ex is now dating ! Cuzz now I feel bad for the bitch that has my sloppy seconds :)

― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:44 (fourteen years ago)

this made me lol hard:

It’s hard for me to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary and best: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to “Qwikster”.

― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:48 (fourteen years ago)

the solemn buildup

― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:48 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.akoelectrical.co.uk/images/kwik_save.jpg

― kinder, Monday, 19 September 2011 06:11 (fourteen years ago)

NOT SINCE
http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/AmwayPh2.gif

― tremendoid, Monday, 19 September 2011 06:52 (fourteen years ago)

qwikster is a dumb name, but otherwise i am ok with this. they are pushing new users to the streaming service (which is the way of the future and probably a lot more profitable) by giving it the known brand name.

― anorange (abanana), Monday, 19 September 2011 07:21 (fourteen years ago)

The amway coincidence is hilar

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Monday, 19 September 2011 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

That said I doubt this will be a partic big deal

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Monday, 19 September 2011 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing

i'm pretty sure ppl are upset about being charged more for a service that is getting worse instead of better. not a concern about respect + humility

― Mordy, Monday, 19 September 2011 07:59 (fourteen years ago)

this lame "apology" makes me want to quit netflix more than the price hike

― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 19 September 2011 08:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://silentstephi.com/Misc/shoot-the-hostage.jpg

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 12:07 (fourteen years ago)

This is just laughably disingenuous to do this in the form of an "apology." All they're doing is further putting the screws in about having to pay twice.

"And to make up for my poor communication, we're making sure you will no longer be able to conveniently cross-check queues to which in your dvd queue are also streaming. Fuck you very much."

― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 19 September 2011 12:09 (fourteen years ago)

"to SEE which MOVIES in your...."

― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 19 September 2011 12:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.tvacres.com/images/nestle_bunny2.gif

― rustic italian flatbread, Monday, 19 September 2011 12:18 (fourteen years ago)

Kenneth Kufluk · San Francisco, California
If a film I search for on Netflix is not available for streaming, will the website still tell me if the DVD is available?

Or must I search twice?

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Reed Hastings · Top Commenter · Netflix
ouch. You'd have to search the second place if we didn't have it in the first place.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 12:46 (fourteen years ago)

this actually makes me want to cancel my service more than the dual-fare (which was still not unreasonable imo)... there is no way I am paying for anything named qwikster

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 12:57 (fourteen years ago)

New corporate mascot:

http://fabliz.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/quik-bunny1.jpg

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:12 (fourteen years ago)

Peoples complaining about the Netflix price hike is probably the lowest point of the Entitlement Generation, real talk

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

Not complaining abt the price hike, now it's just a lesser product they are trying to justify as "innovation"

― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 19 September 2011 13:41 (fourteen years ago)

I meant the grousing that forced this guy to "apologize"

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

price hike didn't bug me, splitting the physical/streaming biz is straight up garbage tho

this is like marketing 101, don't dilute yr brand

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:45 (fourteen years ago)

hey let's take a business built on ease-of-use and make it needlessly complex PROFIT

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:46 (fourteen years ago)

I guess if their ultimate goal is to kill off the DVD side of the house kudos they are off to a flying start

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

I never used the mail thing, was a price cut for me

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Monday, 19 September 2011 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

I guess if their ultimate goal is to kill off the DVD side of the house kudos they are off to a flying start

seriously! They should have just sent me an e-mail saying "we'd appreciate it if you'd reconsider the necessity of mail DVD rental in your life"

― da croupier, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:03 (fourteen years ago)

I never rly used the streams afaik

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:04 (fourteen years ago)

And at the same time, used DVDs are getting cheaper and cheaper to buy.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:05 (fourteen years ago)

It was a price cut for me too iirc.

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:05 (fourteen years ago)

Due to rising transportation costs our prices effective January 1 will be $424.99 per DVD per month. We're so sorry! Thank you for your support of Qwikster!

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

Putting all their bets on streaming is risky, if ISPs continue throttling or start charging based on GBs/TBs.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:10 (fourteen years ago)

nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD

biggest lol in awhile

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:13 (fourteen years ago)

Any move away from physical media is A++++

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:20 (fourteen years ago)

physical media forever

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:26 (fourteen years ago)

physical media forever

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― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

My computer can't play streaming + I can't afford a new one + tons of shit isn't on streaming anyway = I'm OK with this.

― corey, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

Due to rising transportation costs our prices effective January 1 will be $424.99 per DVD per month. We're so sorry! Thank you for your support of Qwikster!
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, September 19, 2011 10:06 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

Thought this was an iatee or dayo post for a second.

― rustic italian flatbread, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

In theory I love the idea of streaming, but it rarely works for us. Whenever we stream through the PS3 we spend more time staring at the "loading..." icon than we do watching any actual content. I mean, yeah, sucks to wait for a physical DVD to show up in the mail, but I also prefer to watch movies and shows straight through without forced "loading..." breaks.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:30 (fourteen years ago)

Jon OTM

Like, the industry got everyone to transfer over to these $900 HD TVs and now we're supposed to be psyched about watching pixelly choppy internet streams on them? Get the fuck outta here.

I'm a GROWN-ASS MAN, not some toast-eating college kid watching Good Burger on a hot laptop. I got the Netflix blu-ray plan and enough patience to wait A SINGLE DAY for something to show up.

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:31 (fourteen years ago)

Our streaming works very well most of the time, but there have been occassional issues with image quality.

― rustic italian flatbread, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:31 (fourteen years ago)

if they announced "all of our physical catalog is now available streaming" maybe that would be A++++ but that's not what this is

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:33 (fourteen years ago)

The last time we checked out a DVD, we ended up keeping for about a month out of sheer laziness.

― rustic italian flatbread, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:40 (fourteen years ago)

streaming is obviously inevitable. but this feels a bit premature, and weirdly unmotivated. why shit all over people who use the DVD service? im not sure what this accomplishes other than alienating a lot of people with a weird (and terrible) new name on the envelope. I prefer watching on blu ray as well because the quality just isnt there on streaming yet.

getting the sense we're witnessing a corporation self-immolating here. though they'll be fine in the long term im sure. curious what the stock price will do today.

― ryan, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:42 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

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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― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:42 (fourteen years ago)

and maybe im an exception, but i dont really know THAT many people who have Netflix right on there TV.

― ryan, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:43 (fourteen years ago)

do you eat toast while you watch the something stupid

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:44 (fourteen years ago)

getting the sense we're witnessing a corporation self-immolating here.

some blockbuster level hubris at work here

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:44 (fourteen years ago)

Also I love browsing the streaming options on my Netflix PS3 and seeing listed as "NEW ADDITIONS" shit like that awful Flintstones live action thing with John Goodman and like SyFy original movies.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:45 (fourteen years ago)

yeah this whole split thing just seems... stupid. like, his whole spiel about "two completely different products"... except that they're not??? comparing it to pizza and coffee is so dumb - it's more like starbucks serving take-out coffee and coffee in a mug.

and this: "And to make up for my poor communication, we're making sure you will no longer be able to conveniently cross-check queues to which in your dvd queue are also streaming. Fuck you very much." ugh so true.

was there really such a huge outrage over the price hike? it didn't bother me at all, since i'm still getting a way better deal than when i use to rent from blockbuster.

― just1n3, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:46 (fourteen years ago)

I never have an issue w long load times.

I get dvds from my local rental spot if I'm looking for something obscure

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

whiney was outraged that people were outraged

― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

was there really such a huge outrage over the price hike?

big enough that they had to revise their subscriber numbers down by one million

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

was there really such a huge outrage over the price hike?

From Thursday:

Internet subscription services provider Netflix, Inc. (NFLX: News ) Thursday backed its earnings and revenue guidance for the third quarter, however, reduced its projections for subscriber numbers by around one million. The company cited increased visibility for the revision, following its strategic step of separating streaming and DVD-by-mail into two distinct services in last July. NFLX shares are currently trading around 15 percent lower in pre-market activity on Nasdaq.

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)

haha xp

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)

physical media forever

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 19, 2011 10:26 AM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 19, 2011

Obv I meant "Physical media until I'm dead," you neurasthenic ninny.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)

I think I'm gonna switch to online-only

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

Although they're up nearly 5% since US markets opened so ???

I rarely have problems w/Netflix loading over my PS3 or my Mac Mini. Now, Hulu+, they have some fucking serious buffering issues.

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

I bet that starbucks would make an alright pizza.

― rustic italian flatbread, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

haha better than subway at least

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

I would try caffeinated pizza

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:55 (fourteen years ago)

So how many ppl can watch on their TV when they stream, at this point? Ballpark percentage. Cuz watching a film on your fucking computer is a last resort for better-than-Bridesmaids material.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

it'd be made with rustic italian flatbread

― corey, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

anyone can watch it on their tv if they have the energy and known how to set it up

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

so in the US population, that's what? cuz I know people suddenly acquire smarts if it means seeing Hangover 2 on a flatscreen as opposed to figuring out that tax cuts for the rich don't help them.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:59 (fourteen years ago)

99% of the time streaming works fantastic for me. Even spread out over 46" on my TV, it's pretty good. I'm not going to mistake it for a Blu-ray, but it's good for me who watches 10 episodes of Pawn Stars, Star Trek, or The Universe in a row.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

I'm not outraged, but I'm very irritated. Mr. G. Weingarten, I think it's absurd to claim it as evidence of "Entitlement Generation" to be asked to pay a 60% price hike for (what amounts to) a reduction in service.

Netflix is functionally a utility service, albeit a posh one, and a major change in expense and terms of service that alienates a large part of the customer base is definitely irritating, and very poor business practice.

― bunnicula, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

i think they are underestimating what introducing a little needless hassle into the lives of their customers will do to their brand.

― ryan, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

Man, they mastered the post office like no other business, didn't they?

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

Lol morbs hates bridesmaids

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

Our viewing habits went to mostly-streaming as soon as it became available through the Wii, and I watch a fair amount streaming on my computer. Never had any problems with image quality that aren't already there with digital cable (ie compression artifacts on TCM).

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

cuz I know people suddenly acquire smarts if it means seeing Hangover 2 on a flatscreen as opposed to figuring out that tax cuts for the rich don't help them.

http://boisee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/web%20point%20of%20interest-8641.jpg

― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

Morbs, I was agreeing with with you, why u comin at me?

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:15 (fourteen years ago)

I get dvds from my local rental spot if I'm looking for something obscure

you've got a local rental spot? there are zero in my town. the only places that have DVDs are the library and those redbox things, which altogether carry about 100 titles. unless I want to go into the city and hope they've got a copy of death note III or the lathe of heaven or whatever weird thing I feel like watching.

agree w/ morbs that the concept of "almost everything" being on DVD is laughable. but the netflix physical catalog does sit on 10+ years of heavy DVD production which is unlikely to be reproduced in the blu-ray world, and although it could easily be reproduced in the streaming world it just doesn't seem to be happening with any volume or velocity...

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

if ISPs continue throttling or start charging based on GBs/TBs

Start charging?

nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD

Then, bitch, please please PLEASE let me borrow your DVD of Howdy, Broadway (Charles J. Hunt, 1929)!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

sorry Whiney, Monday misinterpretation + paranoia

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:42 (fourteen years ago)

physical media forever

considering tattooing this across my shoulders

― da croupier, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:11 (fourteen years ago)

can't decide: henna, or sharpie?

― Kerm, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― sick yr finger up his butt (DJP), Monday, 19 September 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

just out of curiosity i checked to see how many of the movies in my queue are available for streaming: 17 out of 111. as i said, i just think this is way premature. i'd love to know the behind the scenes rationale for it.

― ryan, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

maybe they're dramatically underestimating how long it takes you to watch 111 movies

― Kerm, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

over *OVERestiating* arghgh

― Kerm, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

ok i give up

― Kerm, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

surely the rationale is: DVD mailing costs a lot more to operate than streaming, so let's try to phase that out and beef up the streaming division.

― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

the thing about the "well clearly they're going to do something really awesome with streaming soon" logic is...why would they not wait to shit on long-time dvd users until AFTER beefing up the stream scene?

― da croupier, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:24 (fourteen years ago)

so let's try to phase that out and beef up the streaming division.

Yes but for this to work, they'd have to actually BEEF UP the streaming division.

― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Monday, 19 September 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

Seems like streaming is contingent on agreements with studios, distributors, etc., and so, while cheaper for them, it's also more unstable than just having a giant library of DVDs to lend.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

I think they want to force the studios/distributors to realize that streaming is the future and Netflix is the juggernaut that they'll have to work with to get their content out.

The thing is, the studios aren't going to give up something like On Demand, which would be pointless if new releases became available on streaming.

― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

netflix streaming selection is pretty great if you only like shitty horror movies, wesley snipes, and movies that have "national lampoon presents" in the title

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 September 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

also, kid's cartoons (I watched the entire Avengers season the week I took off because I go bored)

― sick yr finger up his butt (DJP), Monday, 19 September 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

they are slowly adding more criterion titles to streaming but i feel like they are taking some away too ...

― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 19 September 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

They used to have a deal with Criterion, but that's gone to Hulu now. I think they still get the ones that IFC releases through Criterion though.

There's actually a lot of stuff for foreign/arthouse types. I've got well over 100 in my instant queue.

― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

Their deal with Criterion expires at the end of this year. After December 31 they will have NO Criterion stuff available for streaming.

― woman in the dunes, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

my deal with streaming will probably expire at that point too

― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 19 September 2011 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

basically how the digital delivery of movies/tv plays out ie who wins/who gets what parts etc is one of the biggest lol business fights of the next decade and will have profound implications for all the industries in that ecosystem - netflix has known this all along, which is why theyre called netflix and not netdvd - apple knows this, nbcuniversal knows this, google know its, time warner knows it - they all know that whoever controls this market will be a much larger more powerful company in the near future and whoever doesnt will be greatly diminished

not to say this wasnt stupid by netflix, cause pissing off yr customers never is, but theyre a v smart company w/a p amazing track record so far, so i wouldnt personal dismiss any move they make out of hand

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

btw didnt realize read hastings was gay before i saw that video

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

this kind of blew my mind a few years ago when i first saw it (to the extent that a corporate hr powerpoint deck can blow ones mind) http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:10 (fourteen years ago)

possible pro-tip for streaming: it seems to work way better going direct from my router to the BR player we're using to stream rather than via wireless

I can't decide if I'm going to drop the Blu-Ray plan - I use streaming to watch documentaries and TV shows and if people are over and we suddenly want to relive 1996 and watch Trainspotting or w/e, all the Serious Movies are in my physical queue and I'd much rather watch them on BR... but I've also had Mikey & Nicky sitting, unwatched, on the table for six weeks.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah, you need to have a wired connection. Wireless is not going to be a great experience.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

"not to say this wasnt stupid by netflix, cause pissing off yr customers never is"

have to disagree here, based on the fortunes of george lucas.
also, one rationale i've read for the move is they want to get more individuals to subscribe, not households, and DVD side encourages household plans.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/U8yGB.png

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:18 (fourteen years ago)

that deck is pretty great

― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:20 (fourteen years ago)

One thing that occurs to me -- maybe Netflix should and/or is planning to create a wider variety of streaming plans. With the current single unlimited streaming option they're kind of caught between people who don't want to pay a single cent more and people who are fed up with the limited selection (sometimes these are the same people -- perhaps they're also the ones who want tax cuts for the rich and no service reductions). They can't improve the selection without more revenue to pay off the studios. Maybe the answer is to offer tiers of plans either based on bandwidth or number of movies or movie quality or access to selection. It makes sense to me that if they're going to do this, it's easier if it also involves disentangling the streaming plans from the DVD plans, which is sort of a clunky way of doing things.

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

bursts of complexity

―  (gr8080), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

Maybe the answer is to offer tiers of plans either based on bandwidth or number of movies or movie quality or access to selection. I

My understanding is that they're about to put a major limit on the number of devices that can stream simultaneously from a single account, so large families who want to use it on multiple devices at once will have to buy multiple accounts. Not that it will matter when your ISP is throttling you.

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

I'm surprised they haven't done that already, at one point I had three friends all streaming at different homes from my NF account.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

pretty cool friends who come over to watch netflix on their computers instead of hang out

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:52 (fourteen years ago)

three friends all streaming at different homes three friends all streaming at different homes three friends all streaming at different homes three friends all streaming at different homes three friends all streaming at different homes

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:55 (fourteen years ago)

Hard to fault them for wanting the curb that. I'm guessing there were eventually be some sort of family package with various tiers of streams available.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:57 (fourteen years ago)

Pro-tip, Whiney: Read the actual text before you spring to 11 on the outrage meter.

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:59 (fourteen years ago)

I can fault them just fine! (slinks away to set up a slingbox to circumvent device limitation...)

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

whiney's too angry to know what he's gonna be angry about

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

Would be interesting if Netflix could have something like premium channels: pay so-and-so to stream HBO shows, so-and-so for Criterion, etc. Build a package that way.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

my anger is always expressed in all-lowercase

― moonshit journey to caca (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

Is it time to change the thread title?

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

your love is always expressed in comic sans

― sick yr finger up his butt (DJP), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:09 (fourteen years ago)

I wish I could find info somewhere about how long the Hulu/Criterion deal is. I imagine it's several years, though.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

I've got a Netflix copy of Elevator to the Gallows ready to return. Should I keep it or piss on it?

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

Managing two queues without being able to cross check them is a hassle for sure, and managing two accounts is, too, to a lesser extent. I'm surprised no one has mentioned special features (that I've noticed, anyway). There are some movies or shows whose special features I really want to see, not the least of which is closed captioning. CC works when I stream on my computer, but not through my BR player, which is not top of the line, but it's a fucking Blu Ray player, which is more than a lot of people have.

I prefer non-physical media by a mile, but only if it's equivalent to the physical media, and NF streaming is not even close. Besides the lack of "special" features, the interface feels clunky (even on a nicer machine than my BR), and the buffering - upon loading or when reversing or advancing - is way too slow.

anyone can watch it on their tv if they have the energy and known how to set it up

― iatee, Monday, September 19, 2011 9:56 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Not really. I have an HDTV and a Sony Vaio laptop. It isn't impossible to feed the video stream to the TV, but it would take some fairly pricey and jerry rigging b/c they lack compatible outputs and inputs. And again, an HDTV and a Vaio are more advanced hardware than a lot of people have. Plus I am craftier than a lot of users.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

"It isn't impossible to feed the video stream to the TV, but it would take some fairly pricey and jerry rigging b/c they lack compatible outputs and inputs."

Um, no it wouldn't.

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

With my HDTV and computer, it would. I spent a great deal of time researching this.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

"Fairly pricey" being around $80 IIRC.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

no HDMI out/in?

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

I got bad news for you: Most rental DVDs now have the special features (by which I mean stuff beyond the movie itself and trailers for other movies) disabled, or they're mastered without them, so if you want them, you're going to have to buy the disc.

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

No sir. xp and no S-video, either. And no VGA input on the TV.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:29 (fourteen years ago)

Oh. The thread title was changed. I missed that.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:29 (fourteen years ago)

I have like a billion ways to put NF streaming on my tv. Tv itself, DVD player, Wii, xbox, browser on home theater PC. Ok, only 5.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

Most of the time I just use the TV itself. I like the interface the best and I only have to turn one device on.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

No sir. xp and no S-video, either. And no VGA input on the TV.

― Je55e, Monday, September 19, 2011 3:29 PM Bookmark

But wait, don't you have an HDMI input on the TV? If so I think they make USB-to-HDMI adapters for pretty cheap.

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

If I find out that I missed an option after all the Googling, forum asking, and talking to assholes at Computer Coven, I'm going to be really annoyed with myself and everyone else. I'll get back to you.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

Computer Coven? is that a cult?

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:59 (fourteen years ago)

OK. What. The. Fuck.

I am stunned and really annoyed with myself b/c it looks like you are right. I'm sorry I said you were wrong, and I'm sorry I was so wrong. I would be happy that I learned about this option (which is REALLY REALLY OBVIOUS) but that laptop is on its last legs, so this info doesn't do much for me now except make me question my problem solving capacity.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

Actually, those converters are still kinda pricey - $60-$100.

― Je55e, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

The thing about the letter that really seems odd to me is that he frames it as an apology for his other communications, but the letter is actually an announcement of a major restructuring of their service. It seems very bizarre to announce a major change in a company's structure and function by first saying "sorry I was so arrogant months ago".

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

"sorry I was so arrogant months ago, that was just a warm-up for THIS"

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

next he'll apologize for not including the pop-up virus he meant to attach to the post

― da croupier, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

I think they want to force the studios/distributors to realize that streaming is the future and Netflix is the juggernaut that they'll have to work with to get their content out.

The thing is, the studios aren't going to give up something like On Demand, which would be pointless if new releases became available on streaming.

― Gukbe, Monday, September 19, 2011 12:35 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ this is otm

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

"Getting some blowback on the Qwikster news...so while we won't be reintegrating the search functions I will personally fart on every 100th DVD."

― da croupier, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

i mean we can sit on the thread and trade anecdotal "well everyone i know does *this* with their netflix subscription" but my guess is that the big multinational probably has pretty good data on how many people use streaming exclusively vs mail exclusively vs both (and in the latter case how frequently for each)--as joe points out they have a long history of making the right moves on this stuff, and while im willing to believe that they might be killing off their business my guess is that theyve got reams of data backing up this decision

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

i mean i think the biggest misstep they made in their history was underestimating how childish the internet noise machine can be when its asked to pay a little bit more for something

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

Really looking forward to fielding all the confused calls from older relatives.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

je55e i have a vga-to-rca converter that is absolutely terrible and might negate the whole point of having an HDTV
but it must be very very cheap right now. (i see a sketchy-looking one on ebay for about $15)
However there are also $2 cables if your vaio can output TV-out through VGA.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

I actually thought they seemed to be making some rational business decisions and then the term 'qwikster' appeared

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

people complaining about the cost just don't remember what it was like in the 'the only store you can go to is blockbuster' era

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

While I took the news of the price increase with a bit of a shrug and was far from outraged, I do understand why people might have been miffed at the price increase announcement being tied to a reduction in services. I think its a little reductive to consider it just entitled people bitching about having to pay more.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:42 (fourteen years ago)

i mean i think the biggest misstep they made in their history was underestimating how childish the internet noise machine can be when its asked to pay a little bit more for something

― max, Monday, September 19, 2011 3:26 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is it "childish" for me to complain that a service i'm currently happy with (and i didn't bitch about the price increase at all fwiw) is now way worse and more complicated?

i just added a bunch of movies i wanted to see to my dvd queue, and none of them were available streaming?

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

whiney otm itt, i didn't even realize there was a price raise or that i should change my plan because whatever dvd i want just showing up in my mailbox is still magical and incredibly cheap to any child of the blockbuster era, who gives a damn if the price goes up a little

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

heh iatee also otm i guess

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

oh i was talking more about the "outcry" from earlier this summer

i "get" people being mad about the qwikster thing now though i still am sort of like *rolls eyes, makes jerkoff motion*

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

xp exactly!

like, sorry that netflix made your incredibly easy life slightly harder for a couple years, what are you going to do, go to blockbuster?

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

i get finding the qwikster name change funny and pathetic but i don't know why it would make anyone mad

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

other than in a "please don't make me say 'qwikster' on a daily basis you morons"

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

it doesn't make me mad it just makes me question some people in charge in a way I hadn't before

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

ppl need to get in visionary mode on this, by 2015 *95% of what you watch will be streamed* [if u are not a film nerd], you can be on the apple inc "5.99 a movie for 24 hours" or the cable channels "$35 a month for a huge amount of bullshit, impossible hardward and horrible customer service" or the netflix "$10 for a huge library of streaming video"

right now there are no other options! and i dont see any coming along anytime soon

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

yr right i mean ppl are STARVING IN AFRICA RIGHT NOW

it's a service that i am a customer of, it is now less appealing and costs more, that's perfectly rational reason to complain

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

otoh their evil goal is everything streaming one day, right? so it's good that they're giving the dvd service a retarded name on purpose. xp

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i mean its "rational" to complain you just sound like an ass. no offense matt i like you.

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

plus the streaming contract w/starz is expiring in february which means the streaming content is going to get worse in a big way

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

I miss my cool local video stores. :(

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

you can only complain if it costs more than you would willingly pay for what you're getting. as long as it costs less - and, I think for most people, it still does? - people are getting a lot of consumer surplus from this service

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

xps

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

not a film nerd but personally i don't see myself watching most movies on the internet within the next 3 years. unless someone knocks on my door with a cool linkup between my laptop and my tv and installs it for me for free.

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

they should have just renamed quikster 'netflix for old people'

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i mean its "rational" to complain you just sound like an ass. no offense matt i like you.

― max, Monday, September 19, 2011 3:51 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is there a way i can express my displeasure with this decision on the part of netflix without "sounding like an ass"?

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

i wonder if a porn site has trademarked 'dikster' yet

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

it just annoys me that people fail to see "the big picture" which is that this is an *ideological battle* about how you will receive and pay for content via the internet, if netflix dies there will be no "new netflix," there wil just be the 20th century fox streaming site at $10 a month and the NBCUNiversal streaming site at $10 month if you get comcast too and so on

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

is there a way i can express my displeasure with this decision on the part of netflix without "sounding like an ass"?

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, September 19, 2011 4:53 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

probably, i would use the syllable "eh" and shrug your shoulders a bit, as in, "eh, i see what theyre trying to do, but it sucks to pay more for a worse service *shrugs shoulders*"

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

btw it pains me to be defending a big multinational corporation but i am 2xmo and illiterate so the only way i can entertain myself is on the computer

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

Yesterday I was telling some friends about how much I liked "The Woman in the Dunes", and they were like "Is it on Netflix", and I said "on disc, not streaming" and they were like "uuuuuuggggghhhhh too much effort" and it sort of made me want to die.

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

*eh* is it "childish" for me to complain that a service i'm currently happy with (and i didn't bitch about the price increase at all fwiw) is now way worse and more complicated? *eh* whatever...i guess

i just added a bunch of movies i wanted to see to my dvd queue, and none of them were available streaming? tevs sucks 2 b me i guess but whaddya gonna do?

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, September 19, 2011 3:45 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

― polyphonic, Monday, September 19, 2011 4:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha yeah that is bizarre -- like ok longer wait but effort!?

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

I think you have to do a mental experiment, like, take yourself back to 1998 and imagine that a genie appeared and said 'I can have basically any movie, except some shit only morbius cares about, appear in your mailbox the day after you ask for it, are you willing to pay 10 bucks a month for this? ps you will also have the option to watch trashy b-movies on your computer if you pay extra money'

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

cable tv back in 1998 was way more awesome and way cheaper but on downside, no wire, no curb your enthusiasm.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

cable tv probably cost a lot more than 10 bucks back then too

― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

that was when people were paying like $4 for a blockbuster movie w/ a $3248712 late fee

― iatee, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

lol matt

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

streaming skinemax

― buzza, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

it was about $10/mo i think. for basic anyway. it was also a lot easier to pirate before digital.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

wait max –– i kinda disagree w/ you on the principle that netflix is a lone bastion in an ideological battle over content distribution, and that if it fails it's gonna be all a la carte direct-from-production-company choose-your-own-adventure pricing schemes . There are always going to be centralized distribution models, and amazon, hulu+, crackle, whatever apple's got planned, etc., are leagues behind netflix in terms of library depth, but are also viable options and potentially successful models for the not-so-distant future. obv. the current netflix streaming vision (divorced from the dvd distro business) is failing to attract the right kind of attention from the right kind of studios, and flogging a huge but actually pretty-shitty library - unless they've got some commitment from the studios for new top-shelf content - as its own thing is hardly the best way to reward the long-time subscribers who've helped make netflix the juggernaut it is today.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

(i don't have a complaint about the dvd svc, by the way)

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

I'm certainly not mad about it. And the small hassle of having two services won't even bother me that much.

I'm just interested in the business angle on this. It seems risky. And I'm trying and failing understand why basically splitting up the services that way makes any difference. If they are done with DVDs why not just quit that business?

― ryan, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

max kinda relentlessly otm but still I mean who besides max doesn't love to just kvetch about shit, I mean what the hell, besides they called the new model "quikster," this is practically begging for abuse imo

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/netflix_failed_to_secure_the_q.html

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

yeah and "qwikster" jfc, might as well just call it "Hotmail Videotapes" or something actually that's a much better name

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:10 (fourteen years ago)

"hipster"

― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:11 (fourteen years ago)

"DVD's By Mail"

― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:11 (fourteen years ago)

"Cash 4 Movies"

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:12 (fourteen years ago)

i think max is basically right that this is netflix's ball to drop and they haven't really dropped it, at least not YET -- imo most big paradigm shifts and business model changes happen when the next big thing shows up and announces itself, not just when the last big thing makes a couple mistakes (although obv those 2 things often coincide)

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:12 (fourteen years ago)

"google plus"

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:13 (fourteen years ago)

"Celluloid Stories by Post"

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:13 (fourteen years ago)

"The Pony What Carries Movie Shows to Your Veranda"

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:13 (fourteen years ago)

"Movie Envelope"

― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

movie envelope is worth domain squatting on!

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

Just buy the name from these guys:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeiq0YWERNM/TayMfvFMnkI/AAAAAAAACac/C4XegFEbfO4/s1600/Mr%2BMovie.jpg

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

how about 'The Envelope Pushers'

c'mon, makes 'em sound edgy

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

"Movie Envelope" is genius

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

unless someone knocks on my door with a cool linkup between my laptop and my tv and installs it for me for free.

you can get an hdmi cable for like five bucks, if your laptop and tv are not super old

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

"the envelope pushers" sounds like a coen bros movie starring zack galifianakis as a lowly clerk whose only friend is john tuturro who has an artificial limb that is only good for pushing envelopes.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

i was gonna say it sounds like something for anal fetishists

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-apology-fails-to-stop-stock-slide/

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

ha there is a slide in that netflix corporate powerpoint titled "MOSTLY, THOUGH, RAPID RECOVERY IS THE RIGHT MODEL"
"-Just fix problems quickly"

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:23 (fourteen years ago)

"your neighbor with all the movies and games and chloroform and locked basement..."

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

unless someone knocks on my door with a cool linkup between my laptop and my tv and installs it for me for free.

you can get an hdmi cable for like five bucks, if your laptop and tv are not super old

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, September 19, 2011 5:21 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

is that you knocking on the door of my apartment, jordan? if it's not that doesn't change anything i said fyi

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

technologically incompetent people like me who are fairly complacent with the last cheap thing we got are the majority, i mean

― run jaymc & jam-master jaymc (some dude), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

maybe Movie Envelope should have a tech support branch called Plugs and Holes

― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

that's the adult wing

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

I mean Netflix/Quixster is emphatically not a new business model, and its current success is in large part due to savvy decisions made 5-10 years ago. It's in a dangerous position in that it has no easy avenue toward content creation, nor a direct pipeline to private resources it can offer/withhold exclusively. And maybe it's currently lacking the leverage to acquire new content. I mean, even Disney has a vault to fall back on during lean years. As middle-man/purveyor (but not producer) ~~Netflix~~ Quixster has got to position itself as offering something that other companies can't, and that comes in the form of 'choice.' If it can build up a library independent of its DVD business, and offer exclusives or an agglomeration of Good Titles in a centralized clearinghouse, it'll survive. If Quixster can't convince potential content providers to share content (b/c producers can always do it on their own, at their own terms) for convenience's sake, they've lost the market. Divorcing Netflix and Quixster may make negotiations a little easier, but it's very risky for the brass to risk losing subscribers when they need all the market dominance they can muster.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

The only thing I'll miss with the starz deal is Spartacus.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)

They're producing that $100 million original series with Kevin Spacey, with a pilot episode directed by David Fincher, so that's something.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

They're producing that $100 million original series with Kevin Spacey, with a pilot episode directed by David Fincher, so that's something.

I saw that. It's a remake of the BBC House of Cards series, yes? That sounds like their target demographic.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

There are always going to be centralized distribution models, and amazon, hulu+, crackle, whatever apple's got planned, etc., are leagues behind netflix in terms of library depth, but are also viable options and potentially successful models for the not-so-distant future. obv. the current netflix streaming vision (divorced from the dvd distro business) is failing to attract the right kind of attention from the right kind of studios, and flogging a huge but actually pretty-shitty library - unless they've got some commitment from the studios for new top-shelf content - as its own thing is hardly the best way to reward the long-time subscribers who've helped make netflix the juggernaut it is today.

welll the only one thats currently comparable to netflix is amazon, as hulu and crackle are studio-owned and whatever it is that apple introduces will be overpriced, DRMd to oblivion, etc. and amazon's streaming shit is just a side business for the company anyway.

the thing is that if netflix fails itll make centralized services *more difficult* (rather than opening up a space for them), since studios will see an opening (as sony already has w/ crackle) to create their own streaming services.

netflix's library sucks not because they haven't "attracted the right kind of attention" but because the studios are holding out and hoping that it will die so that they can come in and do their own thing. the future of "the content business" is distribution and studios are desperate to get in on it--i think this is a *horrible* idea (media companies are already too big and it makes movies and tv shows [and news and the internet] suck!)

so while in some sense netflix is screwing its customers right now--its also (imo! others may disagree) looking out for their... well, i dont want to say best interests, but looking out for better interests than anyone else currently involved in this whole sordid industry. (especially since the government is clearly not looking out for your interests.)

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

I mean Netflix/Quixster is emphatically not a new business model, and its current success is in large part due to savvy decisions made 5-10 years ago. It's in a dangerous position in that it has no easy avenue toward content creation, nor a direct pipeline to private resources it can offer/withhold exclusively. And maybe it's currently lacking the leverage to acquire new content. I mean, even Disney has a vault to fall back on during lean years. As middle-man/purveyor (but not producer) Netflix Quixster has got to position itself as offering something that other companies can't, and that comes in the form of 'choice.' If it can build up a library independent of its DVD business, and offer exclusives or an agglomeration of Good Titles in a centralized clearinghouse, it'll survive. If Quixster can't convince potential content providers to share content (b/c producers can always do it on their own, at their own terms) for convenience's sake, they've lost the market. Divorcing Netflix and Quixster may make negotiations a little easier, but it's very risky for the brass to risk losing subscribers when they need all the market dominance they can muster.

― remy bean, Monday, September 19, 2011 5:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah see i agree with all of this--and i agree that theyre taking a risk here, too. but its probably a risk id take! people underestimate how quickly this all will change, i think.

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

this is me basically. Besides, when I watch movies I want to escape my computer.

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

also i guess it's only more expensive now if you stream AND rent dvds regularly? what percentage of their customer base could that possibly describe? seems like most people lean hard to one or the other.

― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)

i do both actually but id probably pay twice as much as i do now--its replaced cable for me

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

Ah, see, I don't pay for cable -- I rent cable dramas all the time though. For bachelors Netflix has been an awesome experience, well worth the subscription I've paid since 2004: watch a movie a night, return it, get it another. I keep my queue down to five or six movies at most though cuz long lists startle me.

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

yeah it's like 16 bucks a month?

― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

now I'm making the terrible mistake of watching a Chabrol movie while typing this shit.

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

@ max

I think I agree w/ you on yr. last post: I'm in favor of the change, just not quite as violently (or as poorly expressed as it was in the mea culpa email). And not as hard a cleaving. Really, I guess, we only disagree on the idea that the 'studios are holding out and hoping that [Netflix/Quixster] will die.' I don't see that as their plan – I don't think they have anything that coherent in mind – and I think they're so motivated by unreasonable and unrealistic greed that they're missing the point of their own business.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, in all truth its probably some combination of the two, depending on which executive you talk to

― max, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

i totally do both. most of what i want to watch is on dvd, but my gf and i watch a lot of streaming documentaries, and she likes to find streaming tv series to watch while exercising, etc.

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I use both. Sometimes I want to just watch *something*, but I often want to watch something specific, and whoops there are no more video stores.

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

the thing abt the big movie studios and their relationship to digital distribution is they know they have to position themselves for the inevitable future but at the same time they cant bring themselves to turn off the much more lucrative dvd money faucet, so theyre sort of paralyzed watching their empires crumble before their eyes

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

streaming documentaries? sounds like something the Envelope Pushers are into

― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

i mean something like netflix w/every move ever will in the near future exist, either that or people will turn to piracy, that is the lesson of the music industry

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

The story last week about the subscriber drop had a venn diagram of stream/mail/both. I'll see if I can find it.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

yeah apologies if i'm stumbling in here kinda late and speculating on things that have already been documented

― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

i want to believe that is the case, but i'm worried that a gradual itunesing of taste (the slow push toward available media, and the definition of 'taste' w/in the readily available media) will be more destructive to the weird fringe of movie-dom than it has w/ music.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

^ xp to cr?m

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

This is the diagram from before the 1M revision in subscriber numbers, but I think the proportions are roughly the same.

http://news.cnet.com/i/tim/2011/07/25/chart.jpg

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)

its true the future moviescape could prove exclusionary to art at the v fringes, but overall i think everyones invited to the party cause why no you know longtail etc xp

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:27 (fourteen years ago)

Could it? I know my taste has grown exponentially thanks to the Internet.

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

If you already love movies, finding an Ophuls or Chabrol flick that was never released on VHS is a huge part of the excitement.

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i think youre basically right here alfred

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/9/15/saupload_12724_131609569056213_rocco_pendola.png

So 80% of the dropped million is on the mail side.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.splatf.com/2011/09/netflix-qwikster-facts << netflix: lol who tf cares abt dvds

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:32 (fourteen years ago)

really a very good point that i hadn't considered. i watched all the louis malle documentaries a few years ago after ordering special on greencine when they weren't avails on netflix, and i was so excited i chucked 'em into the VCR straightaway and watched with a greater enthusiasm than if I'd just come across them in the queue.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:32 (fourteen years ago)

@Qwikster I'm about to go play soccer n I got stug by a fucken bee

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

That guy needs to hold out for more than $1K. What a lowball offer.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:40 (fourteen years ago)

did the twitter guy really sell for $1k? if people are that willing to let netflix dictate terms, I wonder if netflix could double the pricing but keep more than half the customers...

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

actually if they lost half the customers, they'd still come out ahead because of reduced bandwidth costs, license per head fees. hmm (thinking of emailing ceo about modest proposal...)

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

He just said he'd been offered $1K. No indication he's planning to take it.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

those diagrams are interesting but i'd much rather see one of what services people are actually USING as opposed to what they're paying for -- for instance people whose Netflix activity isn't 90%+ just streaming or just renting (which i am the latter but am still signed up for both because i've been lazy/ignorant of the changes)

― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

i imagine a lot of the cancelers were just like 'i do not use any of this shit anyway'

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

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, 19 September 2011 22:52 (fourteen years ago)

those are of course netflix most valued customers fwiw

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:53 (fourteen years ago)

haha also good point

― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:57 (fourteen years ago)

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

― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:58 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:03 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:05 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:05 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:06 (fourteen years ago)

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

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:06 (fourteen years 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.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:10 (fourteen years ago)

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

*don't even try

― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

good point abt the needlessness of a device

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

except maybe ~yr imagination~

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

aww damn cr?m

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

Enemy Pie eh

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

a tv show abt reading, gateway drug for post modernism

― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

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

― remy bean, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

―  (gr8080), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:35 (fourteen years ago)

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

― forced to change display name (gbx), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

Hey u changed my thread title

― recent 2Pac news (admrl), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

―  (gr8080), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

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/

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:57 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:28 (fourteen years ago)

just dont watch dexter

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

^ pro tip

― remy bean, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:57 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 02:16 (fourteen years ago)

cr?m otm

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 02:23 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 03:32 (fourteen years ago)

... directly TO YOUR BRANE

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 03:57 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

that qwikster twitter guy is a folk hero

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

― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:53 (fourteen years ago)

that was fast

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:54 (fourteen years ago)

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????"

― Kerm, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:57 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

eh just return it

― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 05:10 (fourteen years ago)

kerm's dad

― buzza, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 07:54 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

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".

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

and thats why streaming is better

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:09 (fourteen years ago)

for some people! mailed DVDs suit me perfectly.

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:22 (fourteen years ago)

what about divorce?

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:26 (fourteen years ago)

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, 20 September 2011 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

― bunnicula, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

sure but thats a temporary situation

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

― 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.

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:04 (fourteen years ago)

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

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

hmmm now what am i in the mood for

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)

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."

― ryan, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)

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

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:11 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ryan, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:14 (fourteen years ago)

and besides 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, 20 September 2011 14:16 (fourteen years ago)

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

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:17 (fourteen years ago)

did not!

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

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?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

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, 20 September 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

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

buy

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

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

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

ice creed hastingsm ;)

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:37 (fourteen years ago)

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

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)

help me n max save netflix

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

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

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

netflix + strategy = win

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

HAVING TO SEARCH TWICE NOOOOOOOOOO

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

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

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://tinyurl.com/6jdgf7f

― markers, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

We are truly the worst generation.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

omg markers

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

because old generations took increases in inconvenience so well

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

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

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

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

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

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

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)

netflix, the destroyer

― buzza, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

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

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

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

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

that's a good book title

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

Unless I missed death threats, it seems pretty proportional to me. Company changes service for the worse, people complain about it... unless you mean any outcry is out of proportion in which case yeah it's totally overboard.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

haha ok whiney you're really going to stick it to someone has a twitter feed full of summaries of their opinion on entertainment...i agree w/ your orig argument but you're on your own homie

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe anyone would suggest that people shouldn't complain about not getting value from products and services they are paying for

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

jon you literally had a public nervous breakdown on this board because i thought some "telly advert" you liked was moronic. I'm straight trolling most of the time, and you're the one who has legit freakouts dogg

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

the sad thing is that whiney will never be able to get rid of the entitled white hipster asshole in the mirror

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

we should let moonship decide how much everything is worth.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

"considering miccio's twitter feed is like 80% whogivesashit.jpg summaries of what he's watching"

This is killing me. Didn't you compile a book of your whogivesashit twitter summaries?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

xp that's the opposite of what i'm saying

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

i'm not even in your shitty generation whiney

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

Didn't you compile a book of your whogivesashit twitter summaries?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:58 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and sold out of every copy, which proves that someone gives a shit

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

Generation Moron giveasshit, I guess.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

we're reaching chris ott levels of awesome here

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

whiney sells out *clap* every copy

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

sorry i said anything yall. i'm ducking out of this argument. hopefully our generation will be able to handle an extra $7 or searching something twice, and if not, this company definitely deserves to sink into the sea and eaten by wolverines, peace out.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

sea wolverines

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe anyone would suggest that people shouldn't complain about not getting value from products and services they are paying for

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i can't believe people don't think they'd still be getting a lot of value for their dollar from Netflix even if they doubled their rates!

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

sometimes lost corporations are the only ones worth fighting for

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/06RgP.jpg

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

the bottom guy in the .gif is a classmate of mine, and lol

― remy bean, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

whiney the next time you go to subway I hope there are 2 doors one leads to the sandwiches and the other plays the beatles

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

remy, u went 2 otter school?

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

I can't believe I've been a subscriber to netflix for 11 years. I've never subscribed to anything for that long.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

otter school. Sign up me.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

can i say for the third or fourth time i didn't and don't care about the price hikes -- the deal for netflix was too good to last and it's still a good value -- complaining about making a service and user interface that worked very well into two services that you have to tend to separately, have two separate queues and two separate bills is annoying from a customer pespective, that's why people are complaining and it's perfectly rational and justified.

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.clubwolverine.org/czmscw/css/pro/header.jpg

― buzza, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

i mean in any online service there are very specific user interface, convenience, and operational reasons why some services succeed and some don't -- for example, you can basically do anything on, say, playstation network or wii online that you can do with xbox live, but microsoft made its service better, more useable, and with a better feature set, that's why it's dominated this generation of online in the console space.

netflix up to this point was a massive success specifically because people liked the service, like the way it operated, like the interface and useability. now, this is changing in a way that is 100 percent worse for the consumer who pays money to netflix each month -- and unfortunately timed with some price increases.

if they or anyone else expected that people weren't going to complain, you are crazy.

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

I mean, i def agree that "that's a p dumb move" is a valid criticism. it's a pretty dumb move.

Unfortunately, the internet has sort of conflated it with a lot of "WELP IM CANCELING MY NETFLIX" and "THEY ARE DONE! THIS MOVE MEANS THEY ARE FUCKING DONE!" all of which is a pretty shrill reaction to something that's not really that much of an inconvenience

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe people don't think they'd still be getting a lot of value for their dollar from Netflix even if they doubled their rates!

― some dude

that's fine! and if enough people agree with you, netflix will be fine too.

but that's a totally different argument from "you shouldn't complain about netflix or change your service because DVDs and video streaming are a first-world luxury"

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

users are going to complain when an interface changes even for the better, let alone when usability is made objectively worse.

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

guys theyre doing it because they want people to stop subscribing to the dvd delivery

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Z8BAJ.png

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:16 (fourteen years ago)

UGH

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

xxpost

yeah you've said that a million times and i believe you

this strategy worked great for that hot MILF who owned the Indians in Major League

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

Why is he eating that baby?

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

its true, eating a childs face is prob overreacting

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

fucking lazy generation of baby eaters

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/s1sbx.png

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

wow i didn't realize whiney's generation was that old

― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:18 (fourteen years ago)

Caress your camera to comfort you.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:18 (fourteen years ago)

i wd. be a fuckin awesome otter just floatin around on my back and eatin cockles and droppin my gs

― remy bean, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

i wd. be a fuckin awesome otter just floatin around on my back and eatin cockles and droppin my gs

― remy bean, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/0jl4A.png

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

this is the streaming movie version of the timberwolves' last draft

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

jesus h christ whiney the joke's on you in this case

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

\o_o/

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/OEwRG.png, me

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)

marker's google thing rocked this thread the fuck out imo

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)

the joke is actually louis cks

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)

netflix is pretty much a monopoly though, right? who's gonna teach gramma to torrent? (i did teach my dad to torrent and now 100% of folks bandwidth is torrents)

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:25 (fourteen years ago)

netflix strategy http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/netflix-business-opportunity-5854575

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

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

lol

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:30 (fourteen years ago)

fail

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

sounds like they succeeded!

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:35 (fourteen years ago)

but that's a totally different argument from "you shouldn't complain about netflix or change your service because DVDs and video streaming are a first-world luxury"

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:13 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

i did change my service! and it's cheaper for me now!

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:37 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/s1sbx.png

lol glwt

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

ppl are just not being visionary about this, and unfortunately thats going to screw everyone in the long run, the consumers, the studios, everyone except for ISPs and cell companies, but whatever, when gibbon 2999 writes his decline & fall let it be known that i was on the side of the good and the righteous

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

^^max is definitely doing some thought leading itt

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:58 (fourteen years ago)

the canadian netflix clone, zip.ca, charges $25 per month and claims that their cost to ship a single disc out is over $2

― anorange (abanana), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

hate to be all who is john galt about this, but who is gibbon 2999?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:22 (fourteen years ago)

i think he is referring to the author of the decline and fall of the roman empire

gibbon 2999 is the person in the year 2999 who writes about the decline and fall of the american empire

bread and games, y'all!

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

our own postal service (which is even more MIRACULOUS and cheap) may cease to exist as we know it someday soon so maybe the question of netflix mailing dvds at all will be moot anyway

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:25 (fourteen years ago)

vahid on-point

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

i was picturing super-intelligent future monkey...

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

we do not know what the future holds, philip

― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:28 (fourteen years ago)

Some kind of ape planet most likely

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

isn't that the present?

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

i'm member of an apelike race at the asshole end of the 20th century; this film's a thriller of the mind.

― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:33 (fourteen years ago)

haha Conan started to tell a joke about Netflix and the mere mention prompted boos -- he went on a whole "now we've got our priorities straight as a country" riff and started acting Lewis Black-style angry about Netflix

― some dude, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/netflix-stock-9-4-as-wall-street-wonders-how-low-it-can-go/

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:56 (fourteen years ago)

I was disgusted by the arrogant email of a 60% increase for streaming and one DVD by mail so I cancelled upon receipt of email. At the same time, They lost streaming content from STARZ and now Disney, so they have NOTHING better to offer than any other streaming content competitor. It is a good deal still, but the insulting way of presentation just pi$$ed me off. I am now exploring other venues, HULU, Blockbuster, Amazon Streaming, but they are all the same as NF, so-so content of TV series and "B" movies. But, I would still rather pay Blkbstr or HULU more to bring them back to stomp NF, but I think that it's a planned tank by NF, so someone else buys them. aka wall-street suicide, but could be a total setup by Greed Hastings to dump DVD by mail (a, the USPS is failing, b, younger demos for streaming. c. International streaming new audience = big bux)so they get bought out and every stock holder collects. On the Big Board, Nflx has gone in the last 3 weeks from $350/share to $130/share at closing today. I am watching like a hawk to see how it plays out. Who else is watching this wild ride???

― Wiggywoo, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:03 (fourteen years ago)

im telling you guys, buy buy buy, i wish i had money

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:07 (fourteen years ago)

the thing is you dont really need to guess at hasting's motives here--he's been really clear, basically since the start of the streaming service, that he wants to dump the DVD-by-mail business entirely, as soon as its feasible

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:09 (fourteen years ago)

They lost streaming content from STARZ and now Disney, so they have NOTHING better to offer than any other streaming content competitor

netflix has between 20k and 30k titles streaming, costs $9/mo
amazon has between 5k and 10k, costs like $75 a year?
hulu has between 2k and 5k, tv and movies, and costs a dollar more than netflix

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:19 (fourteen years ago)

researching that i came across this totally clueless blog post

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-does-netflix-possibly-survive/245317/

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:20 (fourteen years ago)

morelike netfmax

― buzza, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:21 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i dont know why i am treating netflix like i was treating apple when i was in 9th grade

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150304609004584

― markers, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:25 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i dont know why i am treating netflix like i was treating apple when i was in 9th grade

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:23 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

braggin

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:28 (fourteen years ago)

haha sorry i meant that in a sad "why am i defending a huge corporation on the internet at 3:30am" not in a "im a stock wizzard" stylee

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:31 (fourteen years ago)

eh it's no worse than arguing about sports or something.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:36 (fourteen years ago)

I dunno what will happen to the stock or whatevs (I'm still skeptical in general about them providing high quality streams when isps start fucking with them/us), but this is an unmitigated PR disaster. It's hard to come up with a name that combines the horribleness and forgettableness of "qwikster."

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:39 (fourteen years ago)

every time i looked at this thread's new title i'm like "ugh 'qwikster' what a tired joke" and then i remember it's REAL LIFE

― toy and candy planet (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:44 (fourteen years ago)

idg the big deal
i mean, pr disaster sure, but overall, netflix otm

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:14 (fourteen years ago)

god i love that the debate is "what a pr disaster" vs. "pr disaster LIKE A FOX!"

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

I had Netflix for a long time and I don't really get how people think there's variety in the selection of the streaming and the discs. A lot of the material is either those bargain bin documentaries, really old anime or cheesy movies. Even the TV selection sucks because of distribution fights. I also hate how I have to wait 3 weeks to see a new movie after it's on DVD and Blu so I just gave up my account. I'm trying a 3 month preview of Blockbuster and it's okay, about what I'd expect from renting at the actual store, a lot of the discs are unavailable.

― Square (MintIce), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

there is a shitload of variety in the streaming and the discs

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 11:39 (fourteen years ago)

sometimes when I check out the new movies list i'm like "christ there is nothing but the worst movies ever on streaming" until I realize that I've got a queue 200+ deep and, since I've rated like 3000 movies on netflix, most of the good stuff is in "watch it again." It's not a good service if you want This Movie Now, but if you want A Movie Now, there's more worth watching than I'll ever have time for.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 11:46 (fourteen years ago)

"I also hate how I have to wait 3 weeks to see a new movie after it's on DVD and Blu"

Yes this is truly awful awful... wait didn't you already wait a while? What's three more weeks?

I think the streaming selection is pretty great myself. I don't have any problem keeping my queue stuff to the gills with stuff to watch (lot of docs, true, but no shortage of good ones.)

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:02 (fourteen years ago)

yeah my reaction to the gap between retail release and Netflix availability is "uh if I was in a hurry to see this movie i would've gone to the theater 5 months ago"

― some dude, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:41 (fourteen years ago)

Right. I don't even know when new movies are released on DVDs. The Netflix date might as well be the real release date cause that's all I know.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:50 (fourteen years ago)

im telling you guys, buy buy buy, i wish i had money

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah if it werent for my total opposition to individuals owning individual stocks, still tempting

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

where's lorax he might actually take your advice

― iatee, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

I really want to buy some stocks, but being a manchild, I literally have no idea how to do that.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:41 (fourteen years ago)

there's a big trading floor at the new york stock exchange, you just gotta go there and make some crazy hand signals, you'll probably end up with some stock

― iatee, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

I think I go there in a suit and yell BUY SELL SELL BUY NO! NO! BUY! AUUGHH! into my cellphone and then jump off the 50th floor that afternoon.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:45 (fourteen years ago)

Man, just two or three weeks ago, I thought about how this thread title ("not bad"!) was understating folks's contentment with Netflix, price-hike bump aside.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)

do you own a suit

― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:19 (fourteen years ago)

only after walking into a JC Penney and making some hand signals...

― Kerm, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:39 (fourteen years ago)

I really want to buy some stocks, but being a manchild, I literally have no idea how to do that.

― kid ᒓᴥᒔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, September 21, 2011 9:41 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

just sign up with an online brokerage and buy some stuff, weep later

http://www.tradeking.com/

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:45 (fourteen years ago)

talk to that creepy baby on TV

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

otm

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:15 (fourteen years ago)

ppl are just not being visionary about this

this "the masses are blind as are ppl on this thread" steez is nagl man, I mean my 5th grader knows streaming media is the future, but for netflix to rule they've gotta execute the strategy and the tactics, and they've been fumbling the latter.

they could be steering this transition in a user friendly way, but their recent moves telegraph "we don't give a crap about u" so if a significant competitor does rear its head they will be vulnerable. they're a service/distribution network, they don't own anything, and now they're blowing goodwill and brand allegiance in an arrogant way, just like blockbuster did before them. be a monopoly but don't act like one. companies can execute mass transformational strategies w/o turning their own consumers against them (e.g. amazon or apple). if ppl are booing your very mention on late night TV it might be time for some soulsearching. or chalk it up to the shittiest of all vision-lacking generations being shitty blind fools.

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

agree that this is a misstep but likely doesnt even register as a footnote in the bigger scheme

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

they've got a real image problem right now - obv apple's made missteps and recovered, nobody's perfect but general satisfaction is high

netflix can def turn it around but CEO reed richards seems to be stockpiling cluelessness which is surprising since he like totally ran the fantastic four

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

i said this upthread, but their entire value (to producers, studios, libraries, and media distribution co.s) is in their public face and catholic appeal. if consumer confidence in NF/QS drops too dramatically, the rights-owners of the online media are gonna hitch their wagon to another star.

― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

if I ran amazon or hulu I'd be going crazy right now w/ the smell of blood in the water

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:38 (fourteen years ago)

i think they're both good (but ultimately different) models of distro, and i feel like if each played their cards right they could survive together. As it is, though, netflix has exposed a big gap in their armor. Not sure this is gonna have a huge impact - espesh if NF actually has something in the wings - but it's a real opportunity for others to tear off a piece.

― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

eh neither amazon or hulu has shown any signs of being able to do what netflix does - i mean ill just have to disagree w/remy here in that most of netflix appeal lies in the the quality of their product - the content providers will licence their content to lots of different distributors who give them money - but of course you have to get the viewers to watch the things in order to get the money and thats all abt the product

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:42 (fourteen years ago)

netflix has a benefit in that delivering media is the sole focus of their biz (unlike amazon or the studios) but streaming services start looking the same after a while, I've started using crackle on the ipad, maybe the future is a plethora of streaming channels just like we have cable channels and the netflix's comprehensive library was just a beautiful shining moment that is passing

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

working on a streaming channel library aggregator it's like a TV guide for the cloud age brb

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

in the future instead of "what time is it on" we will ask "when does this streaming media's content license expire?"

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

the upcoming original kevin spacey content has the reek of yahoo! logic about it

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

eh people subscribe to hbo et al for one show all the time, p sound well tested logic imho

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

if they keep the price around pay cable and keep the rights to a large body of films, totally. but when you're losing pr and the owners of movies don't want to work with you, throwing your $$$ K-Pax might be a fools errand

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

that should be at K-Pax

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

eh i kinda doubt that either of those cons are long term trends, and if they are then nothing you do is gonna work anyway so might as well pack it up

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

really, everybody's saying the same thing. Netflix is pissing off customers but it all depends on if there's worthwhile competition in the future. only point debated is really people's faith in Netflix. Flipping off your customers while chasing Spacey just doesn't make me think they've got all the aces.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)

every company is gonna make some mistakes, feel like if you look at a slightly longer trendline theyre doing p well, aka this will all blow over

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:24 (fourteen years ago)

imho creating original content is a v wise move as you want something to differentiate yrself from the competition and reel in those fence sitters - of course you have to make an actually like good show which is obvs a huge leap for a distro/software company

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:28 (fourteen years ago)

e3 i feel you i guess as much as anything im having trouble seeing why people are so blindly enraged by this that theyre like booing the company on conan? maybe if i could "get inside the head" of the internet i would feel differently but right now its like, get over it

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

not to mention that i dont *want* a future w/ a bunch of different streaming channels--i mean obviously this *will* happen but i want like 2-3 big comprehensive libraries not 12 different small ones, especially not if those small ones are run by studios and cable channels.

so this is ideological for me--people ditching out on netflix (for what??) are just doing their part to ensure an *even shittier* content environment in the future. thats what i mean by lack of vision.

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:33 (fourteen years ago)

netflix's lack of anime subs is distressing

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

i'm curious how many people are ditching netflix as a streaming service due to this - I could see far bigger drops on the "qwikster" side of things, which does seem to plausibly be their goal

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:08 (fourteen years ago)

like, I dig the comedy of a pr flub like this, and if qwikster blows I may well take the trek to my local video store for new movies (hooray 4 brooklyn where that's still a thing), but for my money netflix is still a great source of tv shows and obscure richard widmark movies

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

the only really irritating thing about this is not crosspollinating the streaming from my dvd queue. also agree w/max on hating the idea of bunches of streaming channels, fuck that noise.

have they said anything more about this supposed gamefly component btw?

― guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

im sure im just reiterating what other people have said, but not jumping into the skipping 1472 messages gulf so youll just have to bear with me

― guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

video store is not an option for a lot of people, and the selection on netflix is hardly catholic. i mean i guess i agree w/ everything except the 'they have everything but obscure morbius shit' line w/r/t their streaming section b/c at this point they don't, honestly, have a lot of top shelf shit. i mean i'm a guy who really likes to watch columbo, so i'm happy, but...

― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

i understand how a variety of streaming channels would annoy but i dunno if i'm "ideologically" opposed to any absence of a monopoly

and yeah, if I was back in central PA I'd be PISSED OFF about this shit

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:17 (fourteen years ago)

feel like what youll see is many places where you can view everything ever made forced to differentiate themselves via product and original programing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:19 (fourteen years ago)

i like the idea of a bunch of similar services with similarly-sized services competing on price and speed and GUI (and maybe library content at the margins)--but im deeply afraid of six or seven $10/month subscription services run by (& being the exclusive source of content from) studios and content creators which is what sony & nbcu and everyone else wants

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

yeah exactly

― guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

this is especially scary in the case of a conglomerate like NBC/comcast which would control not only the content and distribution but the infrastructure bringing you the content--meaning no one would fight them if they wanted to throttle bandwidth or charge you extra for streaming video over yr dsl line

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

like i said above if i trusted that the FCC/congress was looking out for my best interests, keeping the internet open & free & fast, being tough on mergers and so forth, i would feel less invested in this.

― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)

i'd see this as a reason to be annoyed with netflix right now

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

i mean if anyone should be "visionary" about this it should be the CEO of netflix not the folks who keep Brad Pitt and Leo movies in the netflix 100

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

maybe i'll just get really into board games

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:20 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feel like the naturally arising antidote to this is piracy

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

If they really want to get rid of their DVD business, giving it a shitty name isn't a bad tactic.

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

like any service has to be better than piracy, dont think 5+ services will do the trick

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

maybe board games about pirates

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

board like a pirate day

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

^ on the doubloons

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:18 (fourteen years ago)

who will be the google+ of streaming movies!!!

― markers, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

its me!!!

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/gplus11-hp.gif

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

so jho you wanna get in on the groundfloor of this streaming content metalibrary aggregator to help manage the distributed future w/ me? I need an aggressively savvy internet pirate/hobo to help steer this ship

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:33 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/aqiSu.gif
its me!!!

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:24 PM (11 minutes ago)

― markers, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/7x0ET.jpg

eye eye capn

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/aqiSu.gif
its me!!!
http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/gplus11-hp.gif

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

btw there is really a disappointing dearth of hobo picture on the internet

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

lol @ the internet

― #@_@# (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

SFW hobo pictures, that is

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

have you tried thehobobay.org

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

What Mr. Hastings doesn't seem to get is that just because streaming and DVD rentals are operated completely differently behind the scenes, that to customers they are very similar. For customers, "Netflix" meant watching a movie, by whatever means. I don't care about how different streaming vs. mailing a DVD vs. renting a DVD at a kiosk is for you guys. It's all about the customers and their perception. Now to read your movie reviews, I'll have to go to two different websites - which makes sense, because obviously how good a movie is depends on whether it was streamed or watched on DVD. Yeah, that makes alot of sense....

― Lee626, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

oh huh i had not thought about the review aspect

― guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

i too wanna know about the vidyagame component of this; gamefly sucks and i'd love to try something different

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

"oh huh i had not thought about the review aspect"

Yeah that's pretty lame. Although it might be shared by both sites...

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

If the ratings are handled separately, it will be interesting to see the data in DVD v. streaming!

― Je55e, Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:43 (fourteen years ago)

I am lovin the pirate option, and I bet there are more than a few disgruntled ex-NF subscribers who didn't bat an eye, cancelled their subs and are downloading like mad. I don't do it cuz it just takes too long. There are a bunch of companies stepping up and as someone said upthread, smelling the blood in the water. One of them is Dish, who bought Blockbuster and is now setting up their streaming division. With the BB inventory, uh that could leave a mark on NF and revive BB (who woulda thunk it?!?)BB still has the in the mail option too. I'd like to see if Dish offers a standalone streaming option via Wii or xbox or Roku like hulu does - if so it would be VERY attractive. Also today Amazon is really promoting it's effort to increase their streaming "plus" svc by working with studios and making deals for new releases, etc. That also could sting NF. I hate that I am so crazy mad about this issue, it's a business move, but it just feels so cold; but then I still like my Tivo with it's silly cute interface over the dull DTV DVR. It's the kitch that gets me I guess, and I have an irrational emotional attachment to all things TV and NF WAS the bomb until it dropped the 60% increase bomb.

@ Max: OTOH, if NF stock keeps falling in the market, I will buy in (two-faced bitch I am) b/c I think that ultimately they will come back with a vengeance, but I secretly hope they do a Blockbuster and tank.

― Wiggywoo, Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:45 (fourteen years ago)

schadenwoo

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:54 (fourteen years ago)

wiggy & lorax will eventually own 90% of netflix stock

― buzza, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:01 (fourteen years ago)

According to several senior media executives, who wish to remain anonymous, Facebook has signed partnership deals with the likes of Hulu, in a bid to provide a content offering, in the form of a large media platform, directly to its users.

^ see, this is the type of shit I'm talking about, things could turn on a dime if hulu successfully piggybacks onto fb's user base. not that this will necessarily put netflix out of business but competition in the space is going to get rough real quick, netflix can afford to make 0 mistakes, they can't give ppl any excuses to migrate from their platform.

one win for netflix is that they are ubiquitous on hardware, but that could change quickly too.

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

i tried out hulu plus on my 360 and i hated everything about it so much i didnt even use my full free 7 days. if that shit becomes the winner in this i will join jordan on the board game train.

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:29 (fourteen years ago)

"netflix can afford to make 0 mistakes"

they can probably make at least 4 more "qwikster"-level mistakes and their competitors have to capitalize pretty flawlessly on each of them, otherwise the mistake doesn't count.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

looking forward to quackster, new streaming duck service. pf changs better execute flawlessly.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

4 more qwikster mistakes and they lose a turn, must return to pirate bay

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:34 (fourteen years ago)

hulus problem is that its the result of a partnership btw a bunch of studios--cbs has already pulled out figuring it can make more money on its own--maybe facebook can save it but its kind of inherently unstable

― max, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:34 (fourteen years ago)

Is losing CBS worse than losing Starz (semi-serious question)?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

yeah--they have shows that people watch. the value of starz was in their movie content, which was always not hugely better than netflix's basic library (imo).

i mean i love party down as much as the next guy but it wasnt exactly a huge hit

― max, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

I hated the Starz movie content because it all looked really bad. It had some weird compression on it or something.

― polyphonic, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:43 (fourteen years ago)

sorry i got my facts wrong--CBS was never a partner in hulu

― max, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

eh if i were a steaming media company id rather have my shit built into like every new tv/dvd player/video game console than on facebook, like facebook want to become the internet an be everything to everybody but its not gonna happen

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:47 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, netflix has hardware ubiquity which right now is their ace in the hole, but one firmware update and I could conceivably have hulu on my bluray player

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

hulu will need to quadruple its library to match netflix's

― max, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

hulu is also already in the xbox 360 (maybe the ps3? dont have one) and has been for a while. i get the feeling its been a fairly significant failure.

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

btw game consoles as streaming devices are the wave of the future until peeps start buying new televisions again

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

to quadruple its library hulu needs to prove it can bring eyeballs, and fb can bring eyeballs

I haven't used hulu in a while, so maybe it is awful but netflix isn't that great on my bluray player either - can't search, can't add to queue, no recommendations

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:54 (fourteen years ago)

skeptical of facebooks ability to being eyeballs to full length content, jus not the right vibe 4 them

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

get ready for news feed full of ppl liveblogging movies

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:02 (fourteen years ago)

biggest problem for netflix, hulu, whoever, is still this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/netflix_queue.jpg

random sampling 3 out of 18 streaming and there's not a lot of morbz bait in there

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:10 (fourteen years ago)

all in good time

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

but I want the future of ~the internet~ now!

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

I haven't used hulu in a while, so maybe it is awful but netflix isn't that great on my bluray player either - can't search, can't add to queue, no recommendations

yeah see you get all of that with the console versions, i think its just a matter of time where thats the standard in bluray players and tvs as well

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

I have like 150 items in my instant queue.

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i just checked and i have 421 in my dvd queue and 371 in my instant so i would say both services are working out pretty well for me

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

22% of my dvd queue is also streaming fyi

math is fun

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

yeah I've got netflix on the wii but the image quality is a lot better from the bluray player

I've got 269 in my instant queue, but it's a lot of compulsive "hey something's actually streaming let me add it", also each eps of a tv show counts as a slot in yr instant queue, kinda inflates the numbers

most of the time movies I actually want to see are in the DVD queue (RIP)

sorry I forgot we aren't supposed to talk about ilxors netflixing habits

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

I'm sure it's been said upthread many times, but the main problem with the split is that the word netflix no longer stands for a vast and deep catalog - the possibilities were endless to the consumer, even if the consumer were to only watch 1% of those titles in their lifetime. It's really becoming like a premium cable channel, which has some good movies, some of the time. It's no longer something I would recommend to a general consumer - although at this point everyone has heard about it.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

huh my tv shows only count as seasons in my queue, not individual episodes. which thank god because otherwise stuff like futurama would be eating up like a third of the alloted queue length

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:45 (fourteen years ago)

actually not even seasons, just as a single line for the entire show, now that i look at it again.

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

know what, you can have a max of 500 titles in the queue which I've bumped against a couple of times, I think the queue count is just the show but the eps count towards yr queue limit, yargh

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:52 (fourteen years ago)

you learn this by having kids who add every single tv show they can to the queue

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

that is really odd, because mine def doesnt work that way, i just looked and ive got 371 lines of stuff - like i think that the first 48 and futurama and larry sanders alone would put me over the 371

― guh (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:55 (fourteen years ago)

weird, it's happened a bunch of times where I get this message "you cannot have more than 500 titles in your queue" or some such shit and I have to delete x-men evolution or the suite life on deck or w/e nickelodeon disney junk is in there

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

maybe bad tv counts double or something

― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:02 (fourteen years ago)

Ha ha.

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

I think that's because the 'saved' section where unavailable stuff goes counts against your limit too

― original bgm, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:43 (fourteen years ago)

^this. stuff gets removed from the service but if you "save" it, it still counts against your 500

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

i've been at 500 from jump
the hulu killer app for me is the complete criterion collection aka "film school in a box"

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

@qwikster took down his pothead elmo picture and is spelling more things correctly, what a sellout

― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Saturday, 24 September 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/netflix-secures-streaming-deal-with-dreamworks.html

― ice cr?m, Monday, 26 September 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

Next February, Netflix is expected to lose the right to stream films from Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment, as a result of a failed renegotiation with the premium cable channel Starz...

Netflix will begin streaming DreamWorks films starting in 2013. The studio plans three releases that year: “The Croods,” a prehistoric comedy; “Turbo,” about a garden snail; and “Peabody & Sherman,” an adaptation of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” characters. Titles from the DreamWorks library, including “Kung Fu Panda” and “Antz,” will become available over time, the companies said.

― da croupier, Monday, 26 September 2011 12:10 (fourteen years ago)

"film school in a box"

That's a pretty big goddamn box

Forks you could also just get Mubi

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 September 2011 12:14 (fourteen years ago)

hadn't heard of mubi until now
don't think there's an easy way to port it to a tv in the us....?

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 September 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

afaict that nyt article contains no instances of the word "qwikster".

also my tooch wanted to make qwikster "swimwear".

― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Monday, 26 September 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

read tooch as cooch, makes that sentence much more pertinent to my interests

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 September 2011 16:49 (fourteen years ago)

Oh, Blockbusterpaws

http://www.sidequesting.com/2011/09/blockbuster-twitter-feed-caught-attempting-to-bribe-writers/

― polyphonic, Friday, 30 September 2011 03:58 (fourteen years ago)

i love that url one (1) ton

― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

"we're currently experiencing a technical issue - While we get things back to normal, some features aren't available - but you can play select titles on this page."

except none of them are working, either.

― just1n3, Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

uhh apparently it was something wrong with my bookmark link??

― just1n3, Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

ok so my netflix bookmark is for my instant queue - it seems i can access everything on netflix EXCEPT my instant play queue, which comes up with the above text about tech difficulties and a list of movies that i can watch, but none of them work. however, my husband is having no such problems with it on his computer?! so confused

― just1n3, Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:54 (fourteen years ago)

I couldn't get the website to work or the streaming to work on my PS3. They're really having a great month!

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:56 (fourteen years ago)

Did I mention this before? Until about a month ago, streaming had never once rebuffered, but it's been doing it frequently since then. It occurred around the time of Qwikster announcement, but I am not suggesting a causal relationship.

― Je55e, Sunday, 9 October 2011 14:59 (fourteen years ago)

so: i'm still having this problem, but it's only when using chrome. i simply can't access my instant play queue at all without ending up on that weird error page. i called netflix and they didn't have any answers. i cleared all the netflix cookies, restarted the browser, restarted my computer... no luck. i mean, at least it still works using firefox, but it's a little annoying.

― just1n3, Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

i've had periodic rebuffering problems w/ Netflix over the years. i figured that it had to do with my ISP, and not Netflix.

― pork tartare (Eisbaer), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:24 (fourteen years ago)

remember qwikster?

― markers, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/s8zGo.png

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:38 (fourteen years ago)

my man

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 October 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)

Qwikster RIP.

― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2011 12:35 (fourteen years ago)

Wow.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 October 2011 12:45 (fourteen years ago)

That lasted, what, three weeks?

Are they going back to one website for everything (DVD or streaming)? Same or different prices?

― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 10 October 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

One website, but I think the price split/increase still holds.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 October 2011 12:53 (fourteen years ago)

"We're killing off one of the services, but still charging you for two!"

Stay classy Netflix.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:05 (fourteen years ago)

what the hell is going on over there. at least sticking to your guns implies some foresight and direction.

― ryan, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

amazon meetings must sound like a room full of excited chimpanzees these days

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

i mean if netflix has nothing over the horizon except for losing disney and sony and gaining dreamworks...

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:45 (fourteen years ago)

there's something to be said for backing out of stupid decisions before you make them intractable

not as good as not making them in the first place, but

― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Monday, 10 October 2011 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

i hope that's verbatim what reed hastings says in meetings with studios

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

separating their DVD dept isn't a bad idea...ONCE they beef up streaming.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

The way these guys are so reactive to public pressure makes them look indecisive. I mean, obvs the public was 100% right in this case, but maybe some focus grouping next time, guys?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:49 (fourteen years ago)

Their stock went up 10% today, so I guess it wasn't all bad.

― Je55e, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:25 (fourteen years ago)

The Market likes bumbling monkeys.

― Je55e, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

I mean, yeah, if a worthwhile competitor never steps up, Netflix will recover! And if there was no Facebook we'd all be on myspace right now.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

ha, holy shit! these fucken guys!

― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

so much max thought leading...down the drain ;_;

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

max is gonna make it through this, I think he's gonna be alright

― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

I canceled my streaming plan today. Once I heard they were losing Criterion that was kinda game over.

― dmr, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)

Qwikster RIP

― dmr, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

New Coke / new Gap logo cconspiracy theorists (me) are theorizing.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

that dude isn't gonna get anything for his twitter account now

― markers, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

no one listens to me, not even reed hastings

― max, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

Looking forward to seeing Qwikster t-shirts in the Urban Outfitters rack in 2028.

― jaymc, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

or in 2011

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

Touche.

― jaymc, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://eshop.t-online.de/WebRoot/Store3/Shops/Shop36922/483D/7978/F2D7/8250/E879/AC14/5009/640F/154GROSS.jpg

― omar little, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:06 (fourteen years ago)

So what exactly is the deal with Netflix and Criterion? I thought Netflix already lost Criterion, but there is plenty of Criterion on Netflix, though of course maybe not all.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:08 (fourteen years ago)

There's still some left, but all the content expires at the end of this year.

― Rory's new misogynist car (Gukbe), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

Is it still on Hulu?

― jaymc, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, hulu made a deal for basically ALL of criterion's stuff and that might win me over to pick up the service really.

― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

Last month I tried to find out how long Hulu/Criterion's deal was for, but couldn't find that bit of data anywhere.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, for once it's actually hard to find information on the internet. I do know that the cost of Hulu Plus for a year is more or less the cost of three or four Criterions, so that's money well spent, I suppose.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

until apple lets hulu+ onto the appleTV I prob won't do it but the criterion stuff is a pretty powerful draw.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:48 (fourteen years ago)

i knew qwikster was just a bad dream i'd eventually awaken from! now can someone start a petition to get @Qwikster to go back to his pot-smoking elmo picture

― lite-brite phrenology (reddening), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:45 (fourteen years ago)

BTW, watched bit of "Yes 90125" live, directed by ... Steven Soderbergh!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

The concert is reversed chronologically, the film stock keeps changing, and everything's shot through a colored filter.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

Companies often forget to think like their customers. For me, I'm watching a movie, and I don't care if it's a DVD or on-demand from the cable company or streamed over the 'net. I don't want to have to mentally segregate the different ways I can watch a movie.

― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

....kind of like how the same stores that will develop your 35mm film will also make prints from your SD card. Digital and film-based photography are completely different processes, but I don't have to take my exposed film to one place and my memory card to another.

― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

They know no one will like it, they just want to be "ahead of the curve" again - and the curve dictates that DVD rentals are only going to drop over the years. They could have gotten away with it if you were a fool to not just stream, but the library simply isn't big enough yet.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

The irony of this is that if Netflix hadn't killed the video store, they could totally focus on streaming and just tell disgruntled completist cineastes to get their kicks at Video Center IV.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

Blockbuster killed the video store by taking over everything and sucking. Netflix killed Blockbuster.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah the blood of the local and niche video stores outside of large cities (and a few, select college towns) is on Blockbusters' hands, not those of Netflix.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

Seeing as how I only lived in a few, select college towns and large cities, you may have a point.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

But in those burgs, Netflix definitely delivered the death blow.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

Aren't you both in Chicago? Did you not see a bunch of stores close well after blockbuster's rise?

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

There are still mom and pop and specialty stores all over, but Blockbuster's ascent ruined it on a national level. The tipping point.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

if you pretend blockbuster is/was a video store (not hard), my point remains the same. DVD delivery is Netflix's burden to carry unless they can actually provide the movie library of our dreams through streaming.

― da croupier, Monday, 10 October 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/netflix-signs-1b-deal-with-cw-to-stream-gossip-girl-and-other-hits.php

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

hahahahaaa

― American Horror Sorry (jjjusten), Thursday, 13 October 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

never change reed hastings, never change

― American Horror Sorry (jjjusten), Thursday, 13 October 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

As the competition in the online video market heats up, Netflix has been attempting to regain the luster it lost with investors and customers due to a series of dunderheaded moves, including hiking prices of 60 percent in the summer and CEO Reed Hasting’s bizarre statement in September that Netflix would split its DVD and Blu-Ray disc-by-mail rental service into a separate brand called Qwikster, a plan it hastily retracted on Monday due to widespread customer backlash (and perhaps, slightly, to the fact that the company had failed to secure the “@Qwikster” Twitter account from a trash-talking pothead.)

― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 14 October 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

like, i doubt that "some pothead already had the @qwikster account" is what torpedoed the thing, they're a big company and it's only twitter etc, but nevertheless it makes me SO HAPPY whenever writers bring it up in articles

― lite-brite phrenology (reddening), Friday, 14 October 2011 00:49 (fourteen years ago)

also can't wait to finally watch all 700 episodes of one tree hill

― lite-brite phrenology (reddening), Friday, 14 October 2011 00:49 (fourteen years ago)

stock down to 86. Was at 324 before they raised prices.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:12 (fourteen years ago)

lost 800,000 subscribers last quarter.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:13 (fourteen years ago)

yeah that's unbelievable

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:13 (fourteen years ago)

i lol'd

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

feel like jim cramer right now

― max, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:37 (fourteen years ago)

Is anyone else positioned to pick up those subscribers? Even if there isn't is there any possibility that NetFlix can get them back? It's almost mind-boggling how much damage they've managed to do to their brand in such a short amount of time.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:05 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i kind of cant imagine they wont end up back with netflix? i suppose theyre going to hulu+ and amazon for now.

the company was still beat profit expectations, btw. likely wont turn a profit next quarter.

― max, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:09 (fourteen years ago)

I still don't really get it -- I thought the story was that they originally signed very good content deals with providers who didn't really get that streaming was going to be very big; and as those contracts ended and were renegotiated, Netflix was paying something closer to market value for movies and TV. I didn't have the impression they were raising the price just because they felt like it.

I guess I still don't quite grasp why 800,000 people are so pissed about paying 1/4 as much as cable costs instead of 1/6 as much as cable costs. But obviously the facts are what they are.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:11 (fourteen years ago)

kind of like how the same stores that will develop your 35mm film will also make prints from your SD card. Digital and film-based photography are completely different processes, but I don't have to take my exposed film to one place and my memory card to another.

You don't have to, but don't you? Film I would take to the drug store. Digital I would upload to Snapfish or something and order prints from there. They're totally different objects and I don't see why I would handle them in the same place. (Then again, film development and Benadryl are also totally different objects, and I handle those in the same place, so I guess there's no rhyme or reason.)

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:14 (fourteen years ago)

I get why people were annoyed at the price hike, but the Qwikster boondoggle didn't even last long enough to have a direct impact on consumers.

― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

yeah it never even appeared on the website iirc

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

I guess I still don't quite grasp why 800,000 people are so pissed about paying 1/4 as much as cable costs instead of 1/6 as much as cable costs.

Maybe we should OCCUPY NETFLIX over this grave injustice

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:17 (fourteen years ago)

ya tbh netflix is so cheap (like, alarmingly cheap compared to what you would pay for like "unlimited entertainment" in the old days), the idea that people are quitting in disgust because they dont wanna pay $15 a month for like every movie and tv show ever DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR or INSTANTLY APPEARING ON YOUR TV makes me think the entertainment industry has no future at all

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

There is no tv in star trek.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:40 (fourteen years ago)

hmm

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

Who created Holodeck content?

― Je55e, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

I loved when the Ferengi would try and sell people X-rated holodeck programs.

― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

Who created Holodeck content?

― Je55e, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:47 AM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

^^ important question

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

my guess is most of the unsubscribers were people who never actually used netflix spurred into action via all the press

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

In addition to the unsubscribers, I bet there were also a lot of people who reduced their level of service.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)

stock is down 42 points right now

:-0

― brownie, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:57 (fourteen years ago)

RUSH ON NETFLIX, MOVE ALL DISCS OF SATANTANGO UP UR QUEUEUE WHILEST U CAN

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

ya i was thinking the same thing

(says the guy who knows nothing about "stocks")

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

every movie and tv show ever

I think this is a big part of what pissed some people off, because, at least in terms of the streaming service goes, they are a LONG, LONG ways away from hitting this goal. The streaming selection is, as of the last few months, shockingly awful. The physical disc selection remains pretty great, but I think a lot of people switched to streaming (instant access, duh) but were disheartened by the selection and then felt like then being asked to pay even more for this limited selection was kind of offensive.

Not saying I buy into this argument completely, but I do see where some people I've talked with are coming from.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

yah im deeply opposed to the practice of owning individual stocks but i kinda want to buy a lil jus cause

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

I think the streaming selection is pretty great. All depends on what you like to watch. We watch something on streaming almost every night of the week.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:30 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i think ppl who bag on the streaming are v unimaginative & expect it to have like all the big studio blockblusters immediately?

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

part of me wanting to buy stock is tied to discovering they have the entire "Wolverine and the X-Men" series up for streaming

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

I wouldn't say unimaginative, it's just about what you like. And I'll admit that my taste level probably isn't as refined as most ppl on ilx.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

its more of a browsing experience than a place you can find the thing youre looking for

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

I'm seriously starting to wonder if the streaming via PS3 is a totally different streaming experience than most of you guys are having because, as of last night, I only had access to like a grand total of 200 movies via streaming on my PS3. Its an awful selection.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

I stream via PS3; the problem is that the interface severely limits the choices put directly in your face. I usually make a list of things I'm semi-curious about and go directly to the search screen.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all

13,500 titles

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

Hmm, I've never been able to get the search to reveal anything that isn't already available via those on-screen options though.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

I think this is pretty common on various platforms. If you really want to browse the entire streaming selection, do it on a computer.

― Moodles, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all

13,500 titles

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

instant watcher is a sweet site 4 browsing

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

#protip

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

yeah the ps3 interface is pretty terrible. I usually just browse netflix on my computer and add a bunch of stuff to my list and then when I want watch something just pick something out of my list. My list has about ~100 movies right now.

― peter in montreal, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ this is really the best way to do it IME

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

Oh, so if I add it to my "watch instantly" queue from the computer, it'll be there when I access my list through the PS3? I didn't know that!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

yes, your Instant Queue stays the same everywhere you log in, even on mobile.

― llurk, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

"The streaming selection is, as of the last few months, shockingly awful."

Every time someone says this I just roll my eyes.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

I feel kind of silly for not knowing that, but I'm glad to know it now.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

maybe all 800k ppl just didnt know how 2 search & build their instant queue!

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

Every time someone says this I just roll my eyes.

Try reading the thread before you get all dickish about it. I was referring to what was being shown as available through the PS3 platform which really is shockingly awful.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

fwiw I have not and do not intend to cancel my membership, the price is still great!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

You aren't the only person on this thread (or who I've had conversations with IRL) who has said this. Maybe all of them are PS3 hampered though.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

As others have mentioned, the video game platform access to streaming content is truly horrible and I'm guessing that, yeah, there might be a large percentage of people that don't know they can access more than what options are shown.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

I have a Roku for streaming, but the interface on that is pretty bad too. It's hard to tell from looking at it that there are more selections available than the smattering that they suggest in each genre. Even Netflix's web interface is pretty weak, IMO. It's surprisingly hard to find popular New Releases - it's almost like they deliberately hide them to dampen demand. And browsing is kind of frustrating - it doesn't seem to organized well. The whole recommendations feature is also kind of useless 95% of the time.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

i suspect they found via testing that people like it better when you give them fewer choices

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

thats generally true

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

obvs giving them the right choices is key

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

I go to instantwatcher.com on my iPad while sitting on the couch. Add movies and them just refresh the queue on tv.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:42 (fourteen years ago)

"The whole recommendations feature is also kind of useless 95% of the time."

Really? I think it works really well on the website.

Agree that Roku's interface is crappy too, but I don't use it.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all

13,500 titles

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

instant watcher is a sweet site 4 browsing

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

#protip

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yo good looks! i never knew about that site

― Aerosol, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:19 (fourteen years ago)

yeah the netflix recommendation algorithm works really well ime, one of the best things about the site, i wish spotify had a similar feach

― max, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

true most of my queue is populated through endless recommendation strings

― Aerosol, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:29 (fourteen years ago)

Can you add movies to your Netflix streaming queue directly via instantwatcher, or do you have to do it through the Netflix site?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

The former, according to a button on each film's page. Though I haven't tried it myself yet.

― Martyr McFly (WmC), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

yah it works, uses netflix apis same as ps3 or w/e

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

Truth

― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

its more of a browsing experience than a place you can find the thing youre looking for

This is my issue w/ streaming.

― Je55e, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

Does Kevin John Bajingo still post around here? He often said how much he hated Netflix, but I never asked why, and now I'm curious.

― Je55e, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

yah obvs itd be better if it had everything... someday

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

Y'all should convert this into an ILX instant view recommendations thread.

― All kinds of heinous things, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:11 (fourteen years ago)

There already is one of those.

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:13 (fourteen years ago)

at least 2 of them actually

Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:28 (fourteen years ago)

Ya u really gotta use the website or wtv if you're watching via ps3.

There isn't everything but there is a lot. All twilight zone eps in HD!

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

I find the HD stuff to be dubious, at best. Either it's not true HD, or it's been altered from its original format (ie HD, but cropped from 'Scope to 1.85). Basically, Netflix streaming is standard DVD quality, to my eyes.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

I know what HD looks like yall

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:49 (fourteen years ago)

Also do you have your vid quality settings on high?

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah it's not HD and it's miles away from bluray.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 07:34 (fourteen years ago)

still way better than I thought it would be, though.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 07:37 (fourteen years ago)

im telling you guys, buy buy buy, i wish i had money

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah if it werent for my total opposition to individuals owning individual stocks, still tempting

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

Well I hope you guys didn't.

Problem is it still is/was priced based on expectations of high growth. Yesterday we found out they actually are losing subscribers, which is way worse than just not growing really fast, obv. I guess the case for buying would be that they're going to grow internationally, but it's kind of hard to guess whether Netflix will take in, say, Latin America in 2012 the way it did in the US years earlier.

― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 10:59 (fourteen years ago)

Reed's interview in NY Times yesterday suggested that folks who want DVDs soon will be a) people in rural areas and b) "film-school types." Leaving out c) people who want to watch all those movies that aren't available for streaming.

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:25 (fourteen years ago)

Dude's ahead of the curve, but speaking to someone associated with Goldman Sachs yesterday, Netflix is approaching pariah status to the extent that there are predictions that Blockbuster will ultimately take it out on the streaming front. Which would be very ironic.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:40 (fourteen years ago)

Though to be fair, the more distribution heads to a streaming model and away from physical discs, the more films will be available for streaming. At least in theory. If no one rents, then studios aren't going to let thousands of films go unseen. Well, OK, they probably won't.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:04 (fourteen years ago)

I still think u should buy Netflix stock. I also don't think u should buy stocks for the short term.

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:26 (fourteen years ago)

If Netflix can maintain market share and pricing power as the streaming video pie grows, then I think it's a buy - but that's a big 'if'. It's hard to think that streaming is going to be anything other than a low-margin business. It seems like the only necessary participants are the content producers and the content consumers, and anyone in between is going to get squeezed.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

I heard a piece on the radio yesterday that explained Netflix's erratic behavior later as a desperate, pre-emptive attempt to avoid being the next AOL - that is, opening the door for others to take over. But Netflix may be predestined to do just that, because surely what it does is neither proprietary nor unique. It's value is its name, but its behavior is, ironically, devaluing that name.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

its a little worrying that they're losing so much market capitalization since their big advantage right now is that they have money to spend on deals--amazon doesnt, really, and i dont think hulu has the desire much less the cash--hastings says his strategy is to lock up content in exclusive deals at high prices, which is smart business but not great for the consumer, unfortunately.

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:11 (fourteen years ago)

i mean if yr buying stocks on a month-to-month basis you probably shouldnt buy netflix, as the last year has shown, but im willing to bet on it in the long-term. not 100 percent confident but then again im not actually spending the money on the stock

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:13 (fourteen years ago)

not 100 percent confident

You don't say.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

im telling you guys, buy buy buy, i wish i had money

― max, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah if it werent for my total opposition to individuals owning individual stocks, still tempting

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

Well I hope you guys didn't.

― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:59 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol hurting im sympathetic to yr new explaining things persona but one bad quarter does not a pattern make

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 7:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

blockbuster tried to take netflix dvd by mail business as did walmart and it didnt work so good, if someone is going to supplant nexflix its gonna be a technology company who knows wtf theyre doing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:42 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, but tbf, both of those guys only tried the mail part of the equation, not the streaming. But your point still stands.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)

w/the streaming its more important that they not be the companies that they actually are

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm talking about streaming. Blockbuster rules home video, Netflix supplants Blockbuster, Netflix switches to streaming, Blockbuster comes back from the dead and supplants Netflix. This all presupposes physical media is dead, which is pretty much is.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

what if physical media comes back from the dead and supplants THEM

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

point is blockbuster is not going to turn into some other company thats makes an amazing streaming product overnight, might as well say mcdonalds is going to be the next netflix, there just no correlation between blockbusters old retail rental business and streaming video

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

i could see amazon gaining some traction, def apple if they went w/subscriptions, idk who else some startup prob

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

...except they have relationships with every content provider out there pretty much?

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

the problem in getting these businesses off the ground isnt the tech, its trying to twist studios' arms into letting u actually do it

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

Night of the Living Physical Media 2 - Return of the Content

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

maybe if all the movie/tv studios formed a consortium and refused to licence their shit to anyone else, seems p unlikely theyd be able to play well together and make a product that anyone actually wants to use tho

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

blockbuster/dish will probably make a run at netflix but they have a lot of shit to work out first

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

the problem with blockbuster/dish is that theyre THE ENEMY, the last thing we want is cable companies involved in this

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

But see, that's sort of it: streaming is something that doesn't take much know-how, right? What's going to win is not the technology but the exclusivity and muscle, which Netflix is currently losing. It could turn it around, sure, but I wouldn't bet on it against someone like Amazon or Apple or Google or whomever.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

the problem in getting these businesses off the ground isnt the tech, its trying to twist studios' arms into letting u actually do it

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:52 AM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

naw its both, and once again blockbusters 'relationships with every content provider out there' consists of like buying dvds from them which is not at all like what has to happen w/streaming

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

i love when we all sit around pretending we know jackshit about the business world and stocks and stuff

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

the problem in getting these businesses off the ground isnt the tech, its trying to twist studios' arms into letting u actually do it

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:52 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

eh, dont underestimate the value of UI and consistency, one reason why netflix is still well-positioned is that theyve got the best website in the business

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

Wouldn't we all subscribe to streaming HBO, if they never end up licensing their content (Larry Sanders excepted)?

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

u find? the interface on stuff like ps3 sucks, and i dont find the website that great either. the recommendation algorithms are shit hot tho

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

how is netflix losing the exclusivity and muscle? i mean starz and criterion arent on netflix anymore but... who* gives a shit about starz and criterion

*real people, not ppl who watch black orpheus for pleasure

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

the redesign of the website isnt amazing--but their recommendation algorithm is fantastic--and its still much much better than amazon or hulu

i guess they need to fix the ps3 thing but i never watch it on ps3 so

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

starz has a lot of studio stuff, pixar etc

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

yeah oh well. theyre getting dreamworks!

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://pardon-my-french.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pixar-dreamworks-tm.gif

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

By muscle I mean its pull/esteem/power. It's a matter of perception, and the appearance of weakness - say, massive overnight stock drops after months of bad business decisions - does not put Netflix in a position of power when it comes to negotiating content. Though yeah, it does have a big head start on the competition.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

But see, that's sort of it: streaming is something that doesn't take much know-how, right?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:53 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no not at all, god, every popular internet thing in the result of an incredible amount of know how, institutional agility, area business expertise - its no coincidence that like every really big internet thing google amazon twitter netflix etc were created by technology companies not like disney or time warner or w/e

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

i guess they need to fix the ps3 thing but i never watch it on ps3 so

They don't need to fix the PS3 interface since it loads everything you set up via the website; tbh, the PS3 is kind of a terrible unit to use for browsing anything so they're sort of handcuffed by the platform.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

i still dont think anyone really has figured out how to present a gigantic library of content for browsing on any digital platform

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

Also yeah, reliably streaming something like mp3s, which are bandwidth-light, is a different ball of wax from reliably streaming high-definition movies, particularly on a heterogeneous network owned by several competing business entities.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:58 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this is fair--this is what i worry about most

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)

besides world hunger, war, disease, etc.

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)

worst case scenario, we're gonna end up with like 5 services with different shit on it with no way to figure out what's gonna be on what (cuz no one goes 'i wanna watch a warner brothers movie tonight!')

then again, paying $50 a month for unlimited movies/tv is actually NOT A BAD DEAL

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

i still dont think anyone really has figured out how to present a gigantic library of content for browsing on any digital platform

Sure, but the website is always going to be a step ahead due to the expected keyboard input interface; it's always going to be less cumbersome to type than to point-and-click letters.

Now, if Netflix on PS3 integrated with, say, Dragon Naturally Speaking and developed a reliable voice interface, they could really go somewhere.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

well the other part of the "worst case scenario" is if cable companies get involved and start throttling bandwidth, charging an extra $15/mo for the "streaming videos package" etc., and that the 5 services have horrible shitty UIs

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

Blockbuster already has a streaming service. Was this mentioned upthread? The problem, as ever, is that studios want more money per view.

― encarta it (Gukbe), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

Sure, but the website is always going to be a step ahead due to the expected keyboard input interface; it's always going to be less cumbersome to type than to point-and-click letters.

Now, if Netflix on PS3 integrated with, say, Dragon Naturally Speaking and developed a reliable voice interface, they could really go somewhere.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

appletv netflix is actually a better interface for a bunch of reasons - one of which is you can use your iphone as a controller/keyboard.

another is that it's just better laid-out, with more stuff on the screen. you can see a whole big grid of your queue instead of like 5 at a time. seems more designed for the "HD" in HDTVs

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

One thing that the Netflix web interface lacks is any kind of editorial/curatorial voice. Contrasting with eMusic, another service I subscribe to, the difference is striking. eMusic has a staff of editors who write regular features providing introductions to bands/periods/labels/genres, compile lists of picks, recommend new releases, etc. While I don't always agree with them, it's interesting to read the perspective of an informed curator, and it helps you to learn about stuff you might be interested in. I personally find this a lot more interesting and helpful than some technological black-box recommendation system that gives me a random list with no hint of any connecting logic or theme.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

ya that would require hiring like a billion people tho

(not that i would complain if all of the sudden there were a billion new jobs for film writers)

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

I'm curious how they got the numbers for this "$1 billion contract with the CW" deal

― da croupier, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

I love the current cable gambit of "watch movies currently in the theater in the comfort of your living room! (ps thx for the $60 lol)"; it seems like such a blatant preying on our current short-attention-span culture that I can really only just sit back and applaud.

appletv netflix is actually a better interface for a bunch of reasons - one of which is you can use your iphone as a controller/keyboard.

Yeah, layout concerns aside I can't help but think this is a HUGE improvement over the PS3, which basically works like searching for stuff in Comcast's OnDemand menu without the detailed parametric hierarchical menus.

One thing that the Netflix web interface lacks is any kind of editorial/curatorial voice

This is a bonus IMO.

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:11 (fourteen years ago)

they ended up not doing this iirc

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)

got to think its the wave of the future tho, maybe not $60 but you know

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

that'll only happen, imo, when the studios just give up on theatrical releases, which i think are still pretty profitable

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

Comcast was doing it for a while (with some terrible movies I can't remember now) although I think maybe they were only charging $30?

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

imho in the future theatrical release will be p much for promo purposes as a lot of people wont have movie theaters anywhere near them

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

will we live in the sky or the ground

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

important question

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

I would just like to announce that on behalf of ILX, I bought all of netflix's stocks

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

who wants some netflix stocks, I got 'em

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

imho in the future theatrical release will be p much for promo purposes

Thought that said "porno purposes" and got pretty jazzed tbh

― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

who wants some netflix stocks, I got 'em

I will trade you some guess papers

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

hmmm intriguing offer but I feel like I am in a really good 'market position' right now, I can really 'capitalize' on these netflix stocks

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)

imho in the future theatrical release will be p much for promo purposes as a lot of people wont have movie theaters anywhere near them

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:18 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

and bands will make all their revenue from touring!

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

if that happens to be true, and it might be, the movie industry is fucked. $7.99 a month per household (which people are still whining about) versus whatever it costs for everyone to go see a bunch of movies every year is not gonna cut it.

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

theyre just gonna need to learn how to make movies more efficiently

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

I know this guy from china who does a great brad pitt impression

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

a reverse mickey rooney, if you will

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

a reverse mickey rooney

^^highlight of the Screech sex tape

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:19 (fourteen years ago)

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 1:14 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well i could see the actual cost of the thing being higher but yeah the movie industry is in for a hard landing - its not just box office but dvd sales etc - theater attendance has been shrinking since the advent of television and its only accelerating w/fancier home theater setups/competition from video games internet etc - the industry wants to keep the dvd money faucet on as long as they can but thing is if they dont eventually offer people a good inexpensive way to get movies over the internet theyre gonna get napsterized just like the record industry did

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

i mean i think there will still be theaters, just not that many of them

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

But if there are not many of them, how could they open the same movie on 3000 screens at the same time?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)

dvd is a weird historical anomaly that will be seen to have briefly saved the industry, i fear

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

Kind of like the CD in music-land.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

totes

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

man i dont really care that the music industry collapsed cause people still be making music, but not sure how im gonna live w/o more billion dollar cgi adventurescapes

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

youtube man... youtube

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

500 more episodes of epic eating contest have been ordered

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

i am just coming to terms with the fact that pretty much every cultural product except for like in situ installation art has been rendered monetarily valueless by the last 10 years

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

and what a massive cultural shift (towards what, i dont know) that is going to mean

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Qdy1g.jpg

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

i am just coming to terms with the fact that pretty much every cultural product except for like in situ installation art has been rendered monetarily valueless by the last 10 years

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 1:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

give ryan trecartin another couple decades and there might not even be installation art!

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

there's always ads, man

― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

i dont know who that is

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

man the vancouver summit changed EVERYTHING

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

hes the guy who does the funny videos, hes great, but theres never any reason to go see his stuff "in person" cause theyre just cool funny videos, that he uploads to youtube and vimeo

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)

oh HE's the guy who does the funny videos?

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)

has he seen avatar

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

i just watched a couple of minutes of this and it broke my brain

http://vimeo.com/5841178

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, ryan trecartin, funny video guy

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

funny peculiar!!!!!!!!!

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:01 (fourteen years ago)

jesus christ

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

funny looking

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

we have a whole thread on him

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

Ryan Trecartin, philly video artiste

― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

have u guys heard of 'steven soderbergh'

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

u misspelled "silly" in that thread title

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

this tech news summary in my inbox today was a nice juxtaposition

Analysts see a rough road ahead for Netflix

The fact that Netflix (No. 13) lost 3.3% of its domestic subscriber base in just one quarter and that its stock was down 44.2% in just a single day to around $74 per share in mid-Tuesday morning trading, is a chilling sign that Netflix business performance and subscriber problems will only escalate, say industry analysts. Netflix hit an all-time high of $304.79 per share just three months ago.

Amazon's sales jump 44% in Q3

The third quarter earnings story for Amazon.com (No. 1), the biggest online retailer, was a familiar one. Total sales are growing at a blistering rate but net income continues to shrink as the company sinks more money into expansion and new business development.

― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

i love when we all sit around pretending we know jackshit about the business world and stocks and stuff
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:54 PM

qft btw

― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

not knowing jackshit about the business world and stocks and stuff is... no impediment at all to making money off of it.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

which is why we're all making tons of money off it

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 October 2011 02:42 (fourteen years ago)

Which we would, if we all bought Netflix stock now and it went back up to its $300 high! (Which it won't.)

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 October 2011 03:15 (fourteen years ago)

Well I hope you guys didn't.

― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:59 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol hurting im sympathetic to yr new explaining things persona but one bad quarter does not a pattern make

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:36 AM Bookmark

To be clear, the reason I said "hope you guys didn't" is that it fell a fuckload since that day, over 30% drop just yesterday.

― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 October 2011 03:20 (fourteen years ago)

god we're good

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 October 2011 03:21 (fourteen years ago)

its okay to buy stocks that drop 30% in a month if they gain more over the long term

― max, Thursday, 27 October 2011 04:35 (fourteen years ago)

hey lets talk about stocks like fucking assholes

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 27 October 2011 04:36 (fourteen years ago)

hey man stocks are people too be cool

― ice cr?m, Thursday, 27 October 2011 04:37 (fourteen years ago)

i'll believe stocks are ppl when etc

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 October 2011 05:30 (fourteen years ago)

guys, this is not a matter that can be settled in just one thread revive

― da croupier, Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:18 (fourteen years ago)

we need at least four "3 months pass..."es in the narrative before we can decide which ilxor is warren buffett

― da croupier, Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:20 (fourteen years ago)

that and a wdyll pic featuring a money bath

― da croupier, Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.redpointdesign.ca/thePoint/wp-content/uploads/ScroogeMcDuck.png

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:26 (fourteen years ago)

The iPhone app has always been streaming only. It's sort of annoying
Not to be able to manage your DVD queue from it, but far more annoying that titles that are available as streaming but added as DVDs do not show up in the streaming queue.

― Je55e, Thursday, 27 October 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

had cancelled my dvd by mail when the new price change went into effect. today i cancelled the rest of the service too. just not enough films, esp when you've got hulu/on-demand/tcm what have you.

― Mordy, Thursday, 27 October 2011 23:51 (fourteen years ago)

that's tmc obv

― Mordy, Friday, 28 October 2011 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

you had it right the first time

― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 October 2011 01:59 (fourteen years ago)

oh shit. you're right. lol.

― Mordy, Friday, 28 October 2011 02:21 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

got an email from my bank abt sending them some info for my halfway activated brokerage account, lol I have a vague memory of drunk one nite being all maybe I will buy some of that Netflix stock u jerks, tho I totally don't recall actally attempting and failing to open a brokerage account

― ice cr?m, Friday, 11 November 2011 03:49 (fourteen years ago)

hah

― johnny crunch, Friday, 11 November 2011 05:07 (fourteen years ago)

loll

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 11 November 2011 05:16 (fourteen years ago)

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 11 November 2011 05:58 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sure that's how reed hastings makes all his decisions too

― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 November 2011 06:10 (fourteen years ago)

Drink booze, invent quickster

― ice cr?m, Friday, 11 November 2011 06:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/11/netflix-to-bring-back-arrested-development.html

― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:29 (fourteen years ago)

BUT you can only stream it from a different web site: www.arrester.com
and there will be a slight price increase

― do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 November 2011 04:24 (fourteen years ago)

its a uh poorly constructed model website where all the episodes live together shit

― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 04:27 (fourteen years ago)

bring back party down and all is forgiven netflix

― do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 November 2011 04:29 (fourteen years ago)

^^ was gonna post this, it's the logical next step.

― the centaur stops raking as you approach (reddening), Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

iirc party down got canceled cause all their actors got better jobs

― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

glee's on a downward slide, ratings-wise...i love parks & rec but do i love party down more? idk i'd need to ruminate seriously on that

― the centaur stops raking as you approach (reddening), Saturday, 19 November 2011 22:37 (fourteen years ago)

party down > p&r, no contest

their finale on starz got like 16,000 viewers or something insane acc'ding 2 adam scott. i think it was more ppl jumped ship when it was clear the writing was on the wall

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 19 November 2011 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's looking right now like we should have all followed this advice.

― Moodles, Thursday, 26 January 2012 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

Ayuh.
Up 30% I think.
Fuckers reneged on renting games tho, thanks a lot

― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

anyone else notice a bunch of stuff bounce out of their 'saved' section? i read speculation on the criterion forum that this is prob just netflix lowering its threshhold of what they take out of circulation rather than acquiring new physical copies of things, which i would think is right but ima move several of these up my queue

glen and randa
the possession of joel delaney
greater southbridge
3 crowns of the sailor
singapore sling
long weekend
oasis
mysterious objects at noon
anguish

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

has anyone watchedhttp://cdn-8.nflximg.com/en_us/boxshots/tv_sdp_s/70221438.jpg?

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

I just noticed that this morning on the inside of the Netflix envelope! It surprised me because I'm still watching the Sopranos and was like WAHT

― kinder, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

also curious about this.

― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

watched the first five minutes, seemed awful

― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

like the first scene is two mobsters at a funeral just giving unveiled exposition

― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

and it has that 'showtime' look to it

― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

i've been curious about this show, too ... it definitely looks like sopranos-fan bait, whatever its quality.

― it might look subversive, but it's actually crap ... crap does exist (Eisbaer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

and it has that 'showtime' look to it

― lag∞n, Sunday, February 12, 2012 9:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wth is this about. It's like every show is transferred from NTSC to PAL and then back.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:57 (fourteen years ago)

idk it's really bizarre, fwiw homeland doesnt look like that, so they are capable

― lag∞n, Monday, 13 February 2012 04:12 (fourteen years ago)

it's always been that way too, going back to that Sherilyn Fenn show, Chris Isaak show etc.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 13 February 2012 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/504358/thumbs/r-STEVEN-VAN-ZANDT-LILYHAMMER-large570.jpg
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/504358/thumbs/r-STEVEN-VAN-ZANDT-LILYHAMMER-large570.jpg
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/504358/thumbs/r-STEVEN-VAN-ZANDT-LILYHAMMER-large570.jpg
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/504358/thumbs/r-STEVEN-VAN-ZANDT-LILYHAMMER-large570.jpg
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/504358/thumbs/r-STEVEN-VAN-ZANDT-LILYHAMMER-large570.jpg
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/504358/thumbs/r-STEVEN-VAN-ZANDT-LILYHAMMER-large570.jpg

― buzza, Saturday, 18 February 2012 07:01 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

Thursday marked one year since Netflix announced an unpopular price increase in the U.S. It has bounced back this year to revive its subscriber growth, though its stock remains 70 percent down from its peak about a year ago.

― buzza, Friday, 13 July 2012 05:21 (thirteen years ago)

what they lost in money, they made up in laughs...and isn't that what life is about?

http://i50.tinypic.com/2coluno.jpg

― the bibles fake lol don't trust a book (reddening), Friday, 13 July 2012 05:54 (thirteen years ago)

I still think u should buy Netflix stock. I also don't think u should buy stocks for the short term.

― max, Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2011 14:26 (8 months ago) Bookmark

still!

― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

Mittwoch!

― max, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:05 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

Netflix is driving me crazy. I've have justified season 3 at the top of my queue since even before it was released but they keep not sending the 1st disc, even though it shows as available. They've passed over it 6 times now.

― Jeff, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

I had man men queued up, got the first two discs then the third became a 'very long wait' and so logically they sent disc 4. It's been a long wait for like three weeks now.

I swear that in the past when I waited more than a couple days they'd send you one from a different city and apologize profusely. I think their official policy now is "fuck you DVD people".

― joygoat, Friday, 8 February 2013 21:03 (thirteen years ago)

I want to complain to support, but you have to call them??? As far as I can tell.

― Jeff, Friday, 8 February 2013 21:38 (thirteen years ago)

I had man men queued up

Take it to the TMI thread. But yeah, they've pretty much stopped giving shit one about DVD users at this point.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 February 2013 22:09 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://qz.com/106811/netflixs-shares-are-ludicrously-overvalued-again/

― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:02 (twelve years ago)

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock
I can't believe it won't go back up
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Dan: Stock wunderkinder

― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:04 (twelve years ago)

Only a wunderkind if he bought shit-tons of the stock.

― nickn, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:09 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57611722-93/netflix-youtube-gobble-up-half-of-internet-traffic/

― Jeff, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:52 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

I've been having all kinds of trouble over the last several months streaming netflix. I've seen the quality drop considerably, below SD in many cases, especially during prime hours. All other streaming services are working fine and streaming in HD or near HD quality. Some web searches reveal that this has been a common problem with people who use Comcast. It's driving me crazy and will probably make me either switch ISP's or cancel netflix all together. I don't want to cancel netflix, I use it all the time and stream several hours of TV shows each day. It's my main source of entertainment.

http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Basic-Internet-Connectivity-And/Is-Comcast-blocking-Netflix/td-p/1885277

― Jeff, Thursday, 2 January 2014 13:00 (twelve years ago)

I have the same issue with Time Warner, I plan to switch to U-verse when I move.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 2 January 2014 13:21 (twelve years ago)

xfinity is the same as comcast, right?

we had the same problem for a while recently too.

it got slightly better when we stopped using our appletv wirelessly and connected it via network cable.

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 2 January 2014 14:40 (twelve years ago)

weve been having this problem w/ netflix and w/ hulu. replacing our modem helped a little but not too much

― max, Thursday, 2 January 2014 15:06 (twelve years ago)

(on time warner cable. considering switching to optimum.)

― max, Thursday, 2 January 2014 15:07 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://gizmodo.com/report-netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-for-access-to-bro-1529115565

― Jeff, Sunday, 23 February 2014 20:35 (twelve years ago)

As a Time Warner broadband subscriber I've been fretting over the merger with Comcast because I do a huge amount of streaming through Netflix, spotify, etc. and it sounds like Comcast has been pretty bad about throttling bandwidth and putting caps on streaming. Maybe deals like this one with Netflix are a step toward alleviating some of these issues.

― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Sunday, 23 February 2014 20:58 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, but in a way that lets Comcast continue throttling bandwidth for companies who won't pay up, or other kinds of traffic like bittorrent that they see as competing with their cable TV business. I'm worried, personally, this seems like a really bad precedent.

― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:39 (twelve years ago)

^^^

My ISP is a small cable provider who swears they will never throttle bandwidth for anybody at either end of the pipe, but they could change their mind at any instant, or get gobbled up by a bigger cableco at any instant.

― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:48 (twelve years ago)

Why the FCC won't just declare ISPs subject to common carrier rules is beyond me.

Well no not really it's probably some variety of seamy under-the-table shenanigans but I live in hope that they're just incompetent and wishy-washy instead of actively corrupted by regulatory capture like everything else in this country

― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Sunday, 23 February 2014 22:06 (twelve years ago)

hoping with you, not expecting much tho'

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 February 2014 23:58 (twelve years ago)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/

― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 February 2014 02:57 (twelve years ago)

Anyone else caught in the great billing system outage?

― set the trolls for the heart of the sun (how's life), Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:32 (twelve years ago)

do tell?

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 March 2014 00:58 (twelve years ago)

seven months pass...

Just noticed they dumped about 12 discs from my queue into the 'saved' list. These weren't things with wait times earlier this week. All of them fairly recent indie/foreign titles too--Red Riding Trilogy (which isn't on instant anymore), White Material, Somewhere...

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 October 2014 04:37 (eleven years ago)

Lol recent comment on Walking With Monsters: to any mormons like me this show is very inaccurate and not very educational but the animations are excellent and it always adds in a couple fight scenes

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 October 2014 00:52 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

10/25/2011: $77.34/share

4/16/2015: $542.67/share

― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:24 (ten years ago)

fucking hell

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:26 (ten years ago)

haha

― jaymc, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:28 (ten years ago)

hot tipz

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:46 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

5/21/2015: $618.59

― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:21 (ten years ago)

lol

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:40 (ten years ago)

SELL

― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:41 (ten years ago)

still think netflix is gonna have to be bought out (prob by Disney) eventually but I am damn impressed how long they're keeping the "fattening up to be eaten" period going.

― da croupier, Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:53 (ten years ago)

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/netflix-raising-1b-in-debt-to-invest-big-in-content-acquisitions-and-more/

i mean raising your debt to two billion for more content when the only place for your income to grow is international expansion? i have to assume this is a Too Big To Disappear thing

― da croupier, Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:58 (ten years ago)

none of this is to deny that jesus fuck i wish i bought netflix in 2011

― da croupier, Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:00 (ten years ago)

QUICKSTER

― akm, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:03 (ten years ago)

this still kills me

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

― gr8080, Friday, 22 May 2015 15:21 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

...and now premiering a Brad Pitt studio movie.

623.93 -9.29 (1.47%)

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 8 June 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

if i'm reading that correctly, netflix will pay at least 130% of the production budget to distribute this kind of movie, promising an oscar-qualifying theatrical run (and a p&a budget to promote) in exchange (i assume) for circumventing all potential TV income (if not DVD). That's actually realllly good for an indie production company - guaranteed profit, zero risk. Definitely a gamble for netflix though, but why take out billion dollar loans and not spend them.

― da croupier, Monday, 8 June 2015 18:15 (ten years ago)

curious if netflix is going to make a real go at theaters with these movies or if its assumed the theatrical run is in essence a promotional expense

― da croupier, Monday, 8 June 2015 18:17 (ten years ago)

four weeks pass...

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

10/25/2011: $77.34/share

4/16/2015: $542.67/share

7/3/2015: 658.31 +2.86 (0.44%)

7:1 stock split coming soon.

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 6 July 2015 04:11 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

10/25/2011: $77.34/share

4/16/2015: $542.67/share

7/3/2015: 658.31 +2.86 (0.44%)

7:1 stock split coming soon.

...and now $109.86 share (x7 for the 7:1 split)

― ... (Eazy), Friday, 24 July 2015 17:31 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Stock lost 7.5% on Friday (closed at $103.96), soooooo...

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 24 August 2015 02:20 (ten years ago)

Down to $88.65 yesterday...

and now at $106.22

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 16:51 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

They're launching five-minute kids' shows specifically for kids at bedtime. Smart idea.

― my harp and me (Eazy), Friday, 13 November 2015 14:58 (ten years ago)

Our routine is "Just one more episode of Wild Kratts and then as much Neil Degrasse Tyson as you can watch until you zonk out." Yeah, maybe not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, but she can identify the Pleiades and discursively explain the difference between alligators and crocodiles.

― how's life, Friday, 13 November 2015 15:03 (ten years ago)

They did something similar on New Year's Eve with a fake countdown to get the kids to go to sleep already.

― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Friday, 13 November 2015 15:08 (ten years ago)

I've been wanting to check out Dinotrux anyway.

― Jeff, Friday, 13 November 2015 15:27 (ten years ago)

seven months pass...

BUY BUY BUY

― Any Given User (Eazy), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:44 (nine years ago)

I regret adding the Quikster bit to this thread title.

― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:49 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/expect-netflixs-second-quarter-report-000000881.html

― Jeff, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 23:08 (nine years ago)

five months pass...

Netflix, Inc.

NASDAQ: NFLX - Jan 19, 2:38 PM EST

139.01USD

― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Thursday, 19 January 2017 19:49 (nine years ago)

... x7, right?

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 19 January 2017 20:07 (nine years ago)

Yes!

― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, 20 January 2017 06:17 (nine years ago)

And now for a trip down memory lane:

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter: Sell Netflix, Buy Blockbuster

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 20 January 2017 11:27 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

this whole article is totally bonkers but i had to stop and just stare out the window for a little bit after getting to this paragraph https://t.co/p7T1EvXSqG pic.twitter.com/PoF261ckDX
— killsey sutton 🔪 (@kelseymsutton) October 25, 2018

― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 October 2018 21:12 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM (3 months ago)

Netflix is up more than 40X this decade making it by far the best performing public stock of the decade.

In previous decades:
2000s - Medifast (~93X)
1990s - Dell (~92X)
1980s - Circuit City (~93X) pic.twitter.com/ra4RURCQHQ
— Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) December 23, 2019

― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 21:09 (six years ago)

What stock will do this in the 20s?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 21:36 (six years ago)

Juul

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 22:08 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Would be a rollercoaster if DJP had bought in 2011. Down 25% after hours today, lowest since February 2018.

― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:38 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170740799/netflix-ends-dvd-by-mail-service

― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:11 (two years ago)

I held onto the DVD service until last year. I'd told myself that it was the only way to watch some titles that weren't available on a streaming service, which was true. But I hadn't realized until a few years ago just how many movies can now be easily rented to stream via Amazon or Apple or whatever. Combine that with the selection of services like HBO and Criterion, and there's not much I feel like I'm missing out on without the DVD subscription.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:20 (two years ago)

Yeah pretty much a cornucopia out there at this point. Not truly universal, but increasingly the options whether via individual rentals or subscriptions are pretty remarkable.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 03:07 (two years ago)

you can find really weird stuff on Tubi too, I saw Antonioni's The Passenger on there last month

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 03:16 (two years ago)

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdmVtbtWIAIgETu.jpg

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 10:44 (two years ago)

Breaking my silence to say this sucks.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:30 (two years ago)

idk maybe it’s because my tastes are targeted toward obscure trash but the digital rental situation is still pretty dismal imo

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:34 (two years ago)

I agree tbh, not that relying upon physical media was always so great but it's astonishing to me how much easier it was for me to track down (for example) Hong Kong films in the late VHS/early DVD era. Not that the physical media isn't still out there but it's much harder to track down something to buy, and impossible to rent.

― omar little, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:45 (two years ago)

20 plus years ago I found it remarkably easy to dig up some Billy Tang movies I wanted to see

― omar little, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:46 (two years ago)

though i haven't used the netflix dvd service since 2010 so i'm part of the problem, and my issues with digital rental are as tied up in the nature of region-oriented legal rights, artificial scarcity, blah blah blah as much as they are with streaming itself, though i think they're all interrelated systems that i am personally victimized by, keeping me from watching splatter: naked blood with ease or keeping any number of cheap '80s horror films that have been recently remastered by arrow/vinegar syndrome with a poorly-transferred DVD/VHS rip as their primary digital versions

xxp

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:46 (two years ago)

I don't want to harangue companies for elevating obscure trash to a certain level of quality but there are a lot of films I used to see in the past for really cheap which are now released in these exorbitant special editions and honestly I just can't afford them

― omar little, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:48 (two years ago)

Yes, there's far more films on my watchlist that aren't streaming anywhere than are. Otoh there's always piracy - at the end of the day it's not like you're giving the artists much money anyway when you're streaming some 80's Hong Kong joint.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:48 (two years ago)

Maybe the cousin to the new vinyl reissue movement where dollar bin records are now repressed in these $36 editions and what it winds up doing is escalating the prices of those $1 records along with them

― omar little, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:49 (two years ago)

The boutique blu ray market is prob as great as it's ever been but yeah you gotta be a Soldier of Cinema, pre order because it's gonna sell out, deal with exorbitant prices.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:50 (two years ago)

I'd argue the upgrade in terms of quality from dollar bin DVD to blu is usually a lot more clear than a lot if those vinyl reissues. Also the extras clearly much better value than with vinyl where half of the time they don't even throw in some new liner notes.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:52 (two years ago)

Yeah I mean one can't really compare arrow/shout factory to plain recordings or whatever, the former really do the work. I guess the similarity is where media becomes a boutique market and less accessible financially.

― omar little, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:56 (two years ago)

it's kind of astonishing how long their DVD mailing service lasted, considering they de-branded it, didn't promote it and basically tried to suppress all knowledge of it

It must've been somewhat profitable for them to keep it going into the 2020's

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:08 (two years ago)

Well, they killed off all their rental competition, aside from Redbox (which is long ke barely going rn, and only really had an edge on new releases anyway).

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:42 (two years ago)

I still watch as many films on DVD as on streaming services. I am lucky to have a decent public library in my city, which is linked to a huge network of other libraries throughout the metro area. As long as one of the linked libraries has a title (and they rarely come up empty no matter how obscure my request is) I can have it delivered to my local within a few days.

― henry s, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 18:32 (two years ago)

It's sad because to me this was something the Internet _got right_

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:25 (two years ago)

I still miss the days of being subscribed to the DVD service, I was still office-bound so I'd just take the envelope into the office and fly through dvds every week. granted, I'm sure based on the comments above that the inventory got massively shitty, but it was pretty good when this thread was new.

digital Netflix is a Cyclopean chasm of boredom rn.

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:47 (two years ago)

everything's a damn Netflix original and it either stars Adam Sandler or some guy who played Cocaine Dealer #3 on C.H.I.P.S as the star

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:48 (two years ago)

and right now there are a grand total of 36 films from before 1980 that are available to stream

― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:50 (two years ago)

jesus

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:51 (two years ago)

At this moment, Netflix is streaming about 3800 films - less than half of what the average Blockbuster used to carry.

As for films made before 1990? Only 79 titles are currently streaming. If we go to 1980 or earlier, that drops to 36 (!)

✨PHYSICAL MEDIA STILL MATTERS✨
— Kate Hagen (@thathagengrrl) April 18, 2023

― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:57 (two years ago)

out of all streaming services, I think I use Netflix least of all, I keep it purely for my folks. right now most of their investment seems to be in standup

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 05:01 (two years ago)

I am lucky to have a decent public library in my city, which is linked to a huge network of other libraries throughout the metro area. As long as one of the linked libraries has a title (and they rarely come up empty no matter how obscure my request is) I can have it delivered to my local within a few days.

― henry s

this is what i also do but there's lots of stuff nypl doesn't have and many of the dvd's are trashed and won't play through. anything the least bit kid-friendly is basically a shiny frisbee.

― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 20 April 2023 05:17 (two years ago)

one single non-profit indie video store in Baltimore has 8x as many films as Netflix

― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:00 (two years ago)

Just last week I got two DVDs from Netflix because no county library branch or my uni library carried them. This sucks.

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:07 (two years ago)

🏴‍☠️

― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:22 (two years ago)

I am really sorry to hear the announcement of the discontinuation of Netflix's DVD rental service. In the 9 years since I started subscribing I've rented and watched close to 2400 movies. Not only has it been great for accessing classic films, but the whole concept of the queue, which allows you to program a rotating list of multiple directors' films to watch in chronological order, has been really great. It has been an education

I like looking at the history of all of the films I have rented over the years, it's my version of the thread here where everyone posts the films they have recently seen to make a record. I still have close to 500 films in my queue, so I know I have to trim it down to some I really want to watch and some I know I'll never otherwise see after Sep 29th

― Dan S, Friday, 21 April 2023 23:15 (two years ago)

Netflix DVD has been great for recording one's entire film viewing history, the whole thing is there. Letterboxd seems paltry in comparison. I guess I will have to privately note my own viewing experiences from now on. The Last (x) movies you saw (II) thread - what is that about? - are you all intending that as a place for you to look back on and remember and document your experiences, or is it just a vehicle for conversation? I have never really understood it

― Dan S, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:12 (two years ago)

I've kept a list since 1992, which I migrated to Letterboxd 10 years ago. Sometimes I'd forget to log something, though, and Netflix rental history was a useful backup.

― jaymc, Friday, 28 April 2023 01:11 (two years ago)

three months pass...

end of an era

Our last-ever day of shipping out the red envelopes is getting close. You have 40 more days to enjoy your DVD Netflix membership before we send out our final shipments on September 29th. Here are a few ways you can make the most of this final season:
Move must-watch titles to the top of your queue, to increase your chances of receiving them. We’ve also added a handy "move streamable titles to the bottom" option to help you make sure each red envelope counts! (Note that if your queue has no streamable titles, this option won’t be shown.)
Your data will be available until October 27th, so be sure to download a keepsake PDF of your queue, rental history, ratings, and reviews here. Plus, due to popular request, we’ve added the option to download in CSV format!
The last day to change your plan is August 28th. If you’d like to get more discs, browse our plans here.
As a reminder, September 29th is definitely our last day of shipping. Naturally, we hope everyone successfully receives their last shipments – however, in the event that a disc gets damaged or lost in the mail, we will unfortunately not be able to ship you a replacement after September 29th.
We truly appreciate you being part of our final season. Thank you for welcoming our iconic red envelopes into your homes for 25 years. Any further questions? See our FAQ.
—The Netflix DVD team

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 20 August 2023 00:44 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/netflix-dvds-mail-ending/675204/

The real reason I stuck it out was the queue. Netflix allows DVD subscribers to save titles to a list of films, which are then sent in the order in which you added them. I’ve grown very attached to this system, and I’m not looking forward to its disappearance. At one point, I had more than 200 movies in my queue—years’ worth of viewing, especially after I switched from three discs at a time to one. Even as I started adding more streaming to my movie diet, I kept one strict rule: If there was a new DVD waiting for me from Netflix, I had to watch that first. Long day at work and not really in an Ingmar Bergman mood? Too bad, buddy. You-from-eight-months-ago thought you should watch The Silence, so that’s what you’re watching.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:07 (two years ago)

Got billed yesterday. The one nice part about losing the disc service is now I'm paying them like 55% less a month until I saw 'fuck it' and cancel.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 September 2023 13:55 (two years ago)

The post office lost one of the discs I sent back on Tuesday, and Netflix has already disabled the customer service arm of DVD.com, so I'm being shorted a disc in my final delivery. All in all, a perfect way to close this thing out.

Great work everyone!

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 September 2023 17:21 (two years ago)

I don't know why they don't just let everyone keep their final selections, but I guess they don't technically own the discs? Like they're just licensing them from the distributors/studios or something.. so they'll all end up in a landfill I imagine

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 September 2023 18:24 (two years ago)

They are letting people keep their absolute final selections, I'm just getting jipped out of one because of the post office.

If you signed up for it, you could also get ten random discs to keep on top of that.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:31 (two years ago)

I don't think the word gets better to use if you spell it differently btw

― vashti funyuns (sic), Friday, 29 September 2023 19:53 (two years ago)

We lost disc service for this?

https://netflixtoken.io/

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 October 2023 16:40 (two years ago)

Is this 2022?

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 13 October 2023 16:44 (two years ago)

one year passes...

it is deeply, deeply tempting to buy a shit-ton of Netfliz stock

I can't believe it won't go back up

― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:09 AM

Adjusted for splits, from about $12.02/share then to $1,000/share this morning.

― braunschweiger winter (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 January 2025 14:33 (one year ago)

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