Netflix causes Internet to reboot
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One that's far, far away....
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
Is it a period of civil war?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
Specially after ignoring that, They transformed from 70s-80s B movies and tv series that no one wants to watch, to almost best collection avaliable on web for streaming, also they have almost any dvd/blueray you want to watch. now people just dont want to cosider the licensing price which they are paying, i.e. for streaming Startrek/Ironmen 2 movie to 20 million users is huge cost. I think they deserve extra money if they continue improving the collection. And if you want to rage, then why not agains MPAA or whatever that is which is setting the licesing cost so high... Also these same people are happy to pay iTunes $1.00 per tv episode. and $4.00 for streaming single movie.
It's a shame that stupidity can't be converted into a usable energy source.
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Is it a period of civil war?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Civil war? Is that like the two armies calling out, "I say old chap, do you mind terribly if we come over there and rip you a new one?" to which the reply would be "No, come on over. Then we can skull f___ your still twitching corpses before retiring dinner around 8." It's a war g'dammit, it cannot be civil!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Civil war? Is that like the two armies calling out, "I say old chap, do you mind terribly if we come over there and rip you a new one?" to which the reply would be "No, come on over. Then we can skull f___ your still twitching corpses before retiring dinner around 8." It's a war g'dammit, it cannot be civil!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
Ours went from $18 to $24. We're simply going to cut the streaming out since we don't use it at all.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
They have Iron-man 2 available for streaming, but Iron-man (the first part) is DVD only. Weird, that!
Regards, Nish
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To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
So if you don't have any live TV at all, how do you watch sport/news?
Regards, Nish
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To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
The sad thing is that NetFlix is taking a lot of heat for something that isn't entirely their fault. NetFlix's contracts with these media firms are about up, and the media firms, like Sony, have come to the realization that they did not charge NetFlix nearly enough, orignially understand estimating the popularity of content streaming. Now with supposedly more competition out there, the firms feel they can charge companies like NetFlixs more for these contracts; and of course, NetFlix is not going to be able to absorbe all these costs, so they must pass it down to the consumer. From the following CNN money story: “Pachter predicts Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion in 2012.” Netflix's vanished Sony films are an ominous sign[^]
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I always imagine a civil war starts with two captains choosing sides in a playground styley.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
"I'm not playing if I can't have a division of cavalry!" "Okay, but I get the navy!"
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
I have no idea what people are bitching about, things change in price over time. It's a fair amount to pay given the greatness of the service. What a bunch of whiney ass first world assholes we have become: Oh no, I have to skip Starbucks one day to cover it. Oh no, my fatass will have to forgo the second bacon cheese melt I planned on ordering! Children die elsewhere from diseases that our continent hasn't seen in years, but no, I need to watch 30-Rock streaming, and get the first season of Martin on DVD in the mail, how dare they raise the price to use this necessity! Even if you make minimum wage, that's like .65 more hours you are working per month for the ability to watch anything you want! I can watch thousands of movies or tv episodes, instantly, from my fucking bed! This is the future we've been waiting for. Remember going to the video store to choose from their shitty selection, the gas you would spend to get there, the waiting in line. Oh, move on to redbox? Yeah, if your time is worth nothing and your car runs on good intentions.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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To read all the hype, anger and general commotion the past few days over Netflix's price increase you'd think they were pricing themselves out of the market or otherwise forcing financial hardships on the faithful. Many of the headlines and blog posts all scream the same thing. Netflix raises prices by 60%! Deified bovine. You'd think the net was going to explode from all the noise. I cut the cable last year, going from a $120 all you can eat plan to a Netflix subscription. Mind you, I don't have the cheapest plan. I pay extra to have 2 DVDs out at a time since some stuff you can't stream (a problem I lay at the feet of the morons in the entertainment industry who still haven't figured out this newfangled Internet thing, not Netflix's fault). Sure enough, I got an email this week from Netflix announcing price increases for my plan effective September 1st. My monthly bill is increasing from $15 to $20. Yep. That's what the mass hysteria is about. 5 bucks. Roughly a gallon of gas. I don't understand humanity, but they sure are fun to watch as they run around tearing their collective hair out over these earth shaking catastrophes. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer Watch Bad Programmer! - Premieres May, 2011
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I have no idea what people are bitching about, things change in price over time. It's a fair amount to pay given the greatness of the service. What a bunch of whiney ass first world assholes we have become: Oh no, I have to skip Starbucks one day to cover it. Oh no, my fatass will have to forgo the second bacon cheese melt I planned on ordering! Children die elsewhere from diseases that our continent hasn't seen in years, but no, I need to watch 30-Rock streaming, and get the first season of Martin on DVD in the mail, how dare they raise the price to use this necessity! Even if you make minimum wage, that's like .65 more hours you are working per month for the ability to watch anything you want! I can watch thousands of movies or tv episodes, instantly, from my fucking bed! This is the future we've been waiting for. Remember going to the video store to choose from their shitty selection, the gas you would spend to get there, the waiting in line. Oh, move on to redbox? Yeah, if your time is worth nothing and your car runs on good intentions.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
Well you have folks who complain that they spent 3 hours making an online photo album through a free slickdeals link and then had to cancel the order because they did not know there'd be a 3.99 shipping fee. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
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I have no idea what people are bitching about, things change in price over time. It's a fair amount to pay given the greatness of the service. What a bunch of whiney ass first world assholes we have become: Oh no, I have to skip Starbucks one day to cover it. Oh no, my fatass will have to forgo the second bacon cheese melt I planned on ordering! Children die elsewhere from diseases that our continent hasn't seen in years, but no, I need to watch 30-Rock streaming, and get the first season of Martin on DVD in the mail, how dare they raise the price to use this necessity! Even if you make minimum wage, that's like .65 more hours you are working per month for the ability to watch anything you want! I can watch thousands of movies or tv episodes, instantly, from my fucking bed! This is the future we've been waiting for. Remember going to the video store to choose from their shitty selection, the gas you would spend to get there, the waiting in line. Oh, move on to redbox? Yeah, if your time is worth nothing and your car runs on good intentions.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
Redbox has movies sometimes two weeks before NetFlix.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Well you have folks who complain that they spent 3 hours making an online photo album through a free slickdeals link and then had to cancel the order because they did not know there'd be a 3.99 shipping fee. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
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Yeah, Nish. We got your complaint, and you really need to manage your time better.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
:laugh:
Regards, Nish
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Redbox has movies sometimes two weeks before NetFlix.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I quickly went through their website but they do not mention their pricing model anywhere. Do you know what they charge per month, or per DVD?
Regards, Nish
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Redbox has movies sometimes two weeks before NetFlix.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997If I already waited until the movie was no longer in theaters, I can wait 2 more weeks to rent it. Redbox ends up costing you more anyways. You must race home from work to not get a late fee and by me there are fucking lines to use the device, even to just return a movie. Add on the round-trip time, twice, and the time waiting in line and the gas used to get there, it costs more. It also freezes in the winter (they keep them outdoors here). No, I don't work for Netflix, but I basically live by it. I hate most network TV here, and use it to find good shit to watch. Netflix is easily 80% of my TV viewing.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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Redbox has movies sometimes two weeks before NetFlix.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Never mind, seems it's $1.00 per movie per day for most movies.
Regards, Nish
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I quickly went through their website but they do not mention their pricing model anywhere. Do you know what they charge per month, or per DVD?
Regards, Nish
Are you addicted to CP? If so, check this out: The Code Project Forum Analyzer : Find out how much of a life you don't have! My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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$1 per night per dvd. I think games are $2
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
Yeah, that per-night clause is what makes it not so good.
Regards, Nish
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