Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!

Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Steph L. - Sep 19, 2011 7:49:41 am PDT #17879 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There's already a Qwikster on Twitter, and it's HILARIOUS: [link]


le nubian - Sep 19, 2011 7:56:19 am PDT #17880 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

javachik,

I am not sure. I wish I were an industry analyst because I probably could answer your question more cogently.

It seems to me that netflix is in a bit of a bind:

a) disc shipping is somewhat beholden to the postal service system which is in trouble

b) streaming is beholden to the content providers who can act like ass clowns half the time. streaming is also beholden to cable companies and other telcos who control the pipes.

I think netflix is getting squeezed and I wouldn't be surprised if another major change to functionality/value is not in store.


Toddson - Sep 19, 2011 8:07:21 am PDT #17881 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I saw "huluplus" and thought, for a moment, "it IS lupus!".


javachik - Sep 19, 2011 8:09:10 am PDT #17882 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.

HA!


SuziQ - Sep 19, 2011 8:17:59 am PDT #17883 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Looks like the cost for HuluPlus and Amazon Prime are less than what I had been paying for Netflix, monthly. I know, I'd have to pay Amazon Prime for the full annual amount together. But the other benefits of Prime sound pretty good too.


le nubian - Sep 19, 2011 8:19:01 am PDT #17884 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

note: not all videos available on Amazon Unbox are available free via Prime.


Jessica - Sep 19, 2011 8:21:04 am PDT #17885 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Is there an easy way to have last.fm remove an artist from my library? It keeps giving me Weird Al because I like Jonathan Coulton.


javachik - Sep 19, 2011 8:23:05 am PDT #17886 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah, hope I didn't mislead. Prime is worth it for me for other reasons; I don't rely on unboxed free very much. But I do order movies occasionally (and pay).

But the price of DVDs has come down SO much from when I joined Netflix in 2000, that these days I'll just buy the DVD if I really want to see something. My neighbors and I have huge collections between us, so lending them out is nice, too.


flea - Sep 19, 2011 9:23:37 am PDT #17887 of 25501
information libertarian

It turns out that wen we move to Cincinnati we'll be able to get over the air TV again. I had sort of forgotten about that, since we get none here! We're talking about replacing our 20+ year old big square TV with one of these newfangled ones. I'll look up Consumer Reports, but any suggestions? We don't need gigantic or HD, but not randomly breaking for no reason would be good.


Jessica - Sep 19, 2011 9:30:28 am PDT #17888 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We don't need gigantic or HD

I'm not sure it's possible to buy an SD TV anymore. And most new TVs will probably support 3D as well, since it's so cheap to build in the capability.

That said, I love my Samsung. When we were upgrading a few years ago, they were far and away the best-reviewed brand out there.