Yay! Netflix. :o| Boo! Netflix.
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True, but then there's always Hulu and other online sites.
Hulu...also not available in Canada.
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mmmmm....maple brown sugared back bacon...
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When writable CDs came out (and later DVDs) I contended that I would start paying for the content I wanted when they would let me. So I Napster'd for a while, then Limewire. Then Puretracks came out and offered a buck-a-track service. So, I refused to become a hypocrite and started paying for my content. Now, Netflix has finally been released in Canada. Integrated on all the consoles. Live streaming in any room. All the movies, TV series and documentaries a guy could wish for...time to cancel cable, right? Wrong. I went looking for movies and TV series that I actually watch. Nada. It seems that most of the current flicks - and certainly most of the classics - are not available in Canada for streaming. AND, because Netflix doesn't offer it's DVD service to Canucks, we can't get the non-streaming movies at all. This is so close to being cool. The studios and distribution channels need to figure this out. I really wish they'd get all this content digitized and make it available...I'M WILLING TO PAY FOR YOUR CONTENT, YOU POOPS*! *"You poops" taken from Throw Momma from the Train, also not available in Canada
Actually, what they stream is probably the same there and here (usa), they do not have everything available. You might get something like "Planet 51" streaming, but then 90% of the movies out the same time do not and may not for some time. I do not think it will be too long before some companies wake up and put everything out there. Now that Blockbuster went bankrupt, not sure how that will fit int he mix..
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Hulu...also not available in Canada.
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When writable CDs came out (and later DVDs) I contended that I would start paying for the content I wanted when they would let me. So I Napster'd for a while, then Limewire. Then Puretracks came out and offered a buck-a-track service. So, I refused to become a hypocrite and started paying for my content. Now, Netflix has finally been released in Canada. Integrated on all the consoles. Live streaming in any room. All the movies, TV series and documentaries a guy could wish for...time to cancel cable, right? Wrong. I went looking for movies and TV series that I actually watch. Nada. It seems that most of the current flicks - and certainly most of the classics - are not available in Canada for streaming. AND, because Netflix doesn't offer it's DVD service to Canucks, we can't get the non-streaming movies at all. This is so close to being cool. The studios and distribution channels need to figure this out. I really wish they'd get all this content digitized and make it available...I'M WILLING TO PAY FOR YOUR CONTENT, YOU POOPS*! *"You poops" taken from Throw Momma from the Train, also not available in Canada
Like so many thousands of other "lost" customers, Netflix got their last eighteen bucks from me...oh sure, their DVD service is 'decent' but not much better than Red-Box unless you're into some older TV series or movies - but IF YOU WANT TO STREAM anything worth a crap, DO NOT look to Netflix for *insert anything of quality here* WTG Netflix.... See ya!
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True, but then there's always Hulu and other online sites.
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
True, but then there's always Hulu and other online sites.
In order for a company to offer a movie/tv show on disc (or streaming), certain legalities have to be met (e.g., copyrights). Just because one company has met those does not mean they all have.
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I think I went through exactly the same progression of thoughts and expletives last night.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I think I went through exactly the same progression of thoughts and expletives last night.
You guys always want all the benefits of the U.S. without have to get a gun permit. ;)
Remember in November: But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
I have a headache...
Sheeeet. That's passe. Now it's, "we had a fight two weeks ago, I can't remember about what, but I'm not doing it!" Needless to say, that relationship is now long done, can't even remember who it was that said that to me! ;) Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
can't even remember who it was that said that to me
Don't you make out the alimony check in her name?
Remember in November: But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
can't even remember who it was that said that to me
Don't you make out the alimony check in her name?
Remember in November: But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Oakman wrote:
Don't you make out the alimony check in her name?
That was a gf, not a w! ;) Marc
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I think I went through exactly the same progression of thoughts and expletives last night.
You guys always want all the benefits of the U.S. without have to get a gun permit. ;)
Remember in November: But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
We can only see Canadian talent if we watch American shows... We can't keep them in the country for long.
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Oakman wrote:
Don't you make out the alimony check in her name?
That was a gf, not a w! ;) Marc
Gifts... Alimony... Free Apartment to the latter doesn't know about the former... What's the difference.