Warner Archive Instant Steals nearly 2000 Netflix Shows! - Polidicks

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;40516504]I don't know, I'd rather just have Netflix on my Tablet or something so I'm not restricted to my house. Especially given the huge selection of TV shows and movies.[/QUOTE] Plex allows you to stream content from your home PC to a tablet, phone, or whatever over the internet or over your local wifi. I like Netflix well enough, but I still maintain a pretty big archive of my own stuff.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40515835]Just because the concept is simple doesn't mean it can't be improved. New features, fancy way to suggest more shows to a user, faster loading, option to pay to download a series for yourself, etc. Without competition, everything will be terrible because, I mean, what's the point of improving your service if you're the only one? It costs money to improve and innovate, and people don't have any other choice, so they'll have to leave or deal with it.[/QUOTE] Improve, sure. But I can't see much in the way of innovation. Well, maybe offline viewing would be nice. Or a fucking Linux application Netflix christ.

It's like Origin and Steam!

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;40520029]It's like Origin and Steam![/QUOTE] The Steam to Origin move let you keep the content you already bought on your steam account though.

[QUOTE=Klammyxxl;40515933]this shit's starting to fuck with me. same shit happened with spotify, a great deal of artists have disappeared, and i'm stuck with my dick in my hand paying $10 a month for songs that could disappear at any time. as far as i see, this sort of standard should be unacceptable. technically, services like netflix and spotify are the same as services like cable; wer're paying a monthly fee in order to have access to certain media. but you don't see channels from your cable provider vanishing once their licensing has ended. why are the standards any different?[/QUOTE] Actually, that has happened quite a few times. For example, Dish Network lost AMC for a few months last year. DirecTV and Viacom was another one. Time Warner Cable and Fox. The list goes on. Probably doesn't happen nearly as often with those though because they can't exist without cable/satellite networks.

Great, even less movies on Netflix

-ninja'd-

At least we still have Cartoon Network shows. And in 2016 Disney's deal with Starz expires and all their stuff comes to Netflix. I don't know, I really like Netflix and I will support them through thick and thin just because I know all the studios are trying to fuck them up on purpose.

Dang, there's some good things going. South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, Reno 911, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, The Sarah Silverman Program, Kenny vs Spenny, Hey! Arnold, Invader Zim, Beavis and Butthead, Chappelle's Show, Angry Beavers, Jackass 3.

^^Yeah, Netflix [I]is[/I] the competition, cable companies and movie studios are just trying to get rid of it/weaken it. This isn't increased competitiveness, it's the powerful old guard trying to take down the new upstarts. It's post x64 Intel and AMD.

[QUOTE=A big fat ass;40521578]Dang, there's some good things going. South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, Reno 911,[B] Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, The Sarah Silverman Program,[/B] Kenny vs Spenny, Hey! Arnold, Invader Zim, Beavis and Butthead, Chappelle's Show, Angry Beavers, Jackass 3.[/QUOTE] NO

They're not leaving Netflix or their upcoming absence upsets you?

Their loss in my opinion, I don't even use my TV anymore, its packed away in some box because my PC is infinitely more useful.

Wow, really? Looks like everyone is going to lose out..

If the Viacom deal goes that may be it for me and Netflix. What a nightmare it's going to be if streaming fragments and every single studio thinks they are entitled to $10-$20 a month for access to their "exclusive" service and nobody else can be permitted to make money offa' their stuff.

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png[/img] Replace "standards" with "Internet streaming media services."

yep, even hulu the golden child of streaming has been screwed as of late [editline]4th May 2013[/editline] what irks me is that movies that are public domain (like night of the living dead) can still be withheld from things like netflix because apparently theres a difference between public domain and streaming rights....

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40516983]So instead of depending on your current connection's download speed to watch movies (usually pretty ok) you're relying on your home internet's upload speed (almost always shit)[/QUOTE] Since network HDDs are traditionally kept on a [I]LAN,[/I] the movies wouldn't be streamed over the net. Therefore the upload speed you are criticizing would be anywhere between 100gbps to 1000gbps.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;40521941]Since network HDDs are traditionally kept on a [I]LAN,[/I] the movies wouldn't be streamed over the net. Therefore the upload speed you are criticizing would be anywhere between 100gbps to 1000gbps.[/QUOTE] With Netflix on a mobile device you can stream movies anywhere you can get a decent connection, I was just comparing a setup with a similar ability.

So [B]that's[/B] where my Futurama movies went... :tinfoil:

One thing about this LAN streaming shit is that not everyone is tech-savvy enough to know that you don't need netflix to be able to watch shit on your iPad or something. Hell, I don't even think [I]I[/I] am tech-savvy enough to do it, despite being a bit more computer-literate than an average dude. [QUOTE=Jellyman;40515415]Uh, set up a webserver and stream. Mount the network 'drive', etc. I do the same and can stream all my shit.[/QUOTE] i mean shit what do these hieroglyphics mean

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;40514618]This is why you download and setup a film and tv archive on a network HDD so they are yours and you don't need to care about greedy capitalist pigs.[/QUOTE] That's pretty much what I did. I have an external hard drive filled with like 500gb of films I've bought at some point but we all kept them in digital form in case the disk broke/didn't work anymore/whatever, and it's linked to our local network. It's actually simpler than having 200+ dvd cases lying around.

The thing about LAN for me is that downloading the TV show takes fucking ages on my connection. Netflix works better, despite the lack of shows.

I scoured the list, couldn't find Stargate. This means... this means I'm safe, right?

Welp. As if Netflix Sweden already didn't lack shows. I use Netflix US through a dns thing from time to time but mostly Netflix Sweden. Especially on my TV. It is like what is going on with Steam. All large publishers are trying to make their own crap distribution service instead of using one popular and widely used service. So in the end I will most likely have to pay for HBO Nordic, Warner Brothers crap, Netflix and Viaplay or something. Just to get a few shows from each.

[QUOTE=CommanderPT;40523963]Welp. As if Netflix Sweden already didn't lack shows. I use Netflix US through a dns thing from time to time but mostly Netflix Sweden. Especially on my TV. It is like what is going on with Steam. All large publishers are trying to make their own crap distribution service instead of using one popular and widely used service. So in the end I will most likely have to pay for HBO Nordic, Warner Brothers crap, Netflix and Viaplay or something. Just to get a few shows from each.[/QUOTE]I'd be fine with 2 or 3 major competing services (got to have actual competition to keep them on their toes), but if it starts to fragment any more than that e.g. every half-arsed publishing company with a handful of shows setting up their own $10/mo streaming service, i'm probably not going to bother with streaming services anymore.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;40524563]I'd be fine with 2 or 3 major competing services (got to have actual competition to keep them on their toes), but if it starts to fragment any more than that e.g. every half-arsed publishing company with a handful of shows setting up their own $10/mo streaming service, i'm probably not going to bother with streaming services anymore.[/QUOTE] That's the point, it's the same thing as with steam. They don't care if their streaming services fail, so long as Netflix fails too and they lost their only major competition. (It's not third parties setting these up, it's companies that would benefit most from there being no cheap streaming at all)

[QUOTE=Flem;40515383]Are you a fucking derp?[/QUOTE] what are you even saying

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;40517110]Plex allows you to stream content from your home PC to a tablet, phone, or whatever over the internet or over your local wifi. I like Netflix well enough, but I still maintain a pretty big archive of my own stuff.[/QUOTE] No, I said when I'm not in the house. [editline]4th May 2013[/editline] Thanks though, I've been wanting to set up streaming to my PS3 one of these days.

Watch as it fails and they blame piracy. The same piracy that they caused by fucking over their customers. Which they "combat" by fucking over their customers even more. Running around in fucking circles...