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1 edit | Available only on computers that run Windows XP and Vista "Its instant viewing feature, available only on computers that run the Windows XP and Vista operating systems, plays back DVD-quality digital files almost instantly after subscribers install special software from the Netflix site, a process that takes about 20 seconds."
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Arlington, VA | Re: Available only on computers that run Windows XP and Vista No problem at all if you have a Windows PC! | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Available only on computers that run Windows XP and Vista said by NPGMBR:No problem at all if you have a Windows PC! Well the XP or Vista requirement does cut down the number to about 75% of all home computer users initially. »www.w3schools.com/browsers/brows···tats.asp
But Netflix does claim they will support any device with any browser over time.
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| | | | | Re: Available only on computers that run Windows XP and Vista In addition, how about using SlingCatcher (from SlingMedia, ie SlingBox) to route the Video and Audio to any TV, DVR, or recordable DVD.
In fact the SlingCatcher has a Hard Drive add-on to capture video and audio, and it supports HDMI and the other three video connection types, and analog and digital audio.
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Brooklyn, NY | said by Romney2012:said by NPGMBR:No problem at all if you have a Windows PC! Well the XP or Vista requirement does cut down the number to about 75% of all home computer users initially. Ummm make it to 94-95% and you're close to reality.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp [/qbuote] Apart from the fact that it's ONE particular browser stats - noone knows from where -, what does it have to do with OS stats? Once again you're not making sense... But Netflix does claim they will support any device with any browser over time.
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kudos:4 | Re: Available only on computers that run Windows XP and Vistasaid by kamm:said by Romney2012:Well the XP or Vista requirement does cut down the number to about 75% of all home computer users initially.
Ummm make it to 94-95% and you're close to reality. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Apart from the fact that it's ONE particular browser stats - noone knows from where -, what does it have to do with OS stats? Once again you're not making sense... How about reading down the page at that link where it shows the OS info:
OS Platform Statistics
Windows XP is the most popular operating system:
2006 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT W2003 Linux Mac
November 74.9% 8.0% 1.0% 0.4% 1.8% 3.3% 3.5%
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Brooklyn, NY | Re: Available only on computers that run Windows XP and Vistasaid by Romney2012:said by kamm:said by Romney2012:Well the XP or Vista requirement does cut down the number to about 75% of all home computer users initially.
Ummm make it to 94-95% and you're close to reality. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Apart from the fact that it's ONE particular browser stats - noone knows from where -, what does it have to do with OS stats? Once again you're not making sense... How about reading down the page at that link where it shows the OS info: OS Platform Statistics
Windows XP is the most popular operating system:
2006 WinXP W2000 Win98 WinNT W2003 Linux Mac
November 74.9% 8.0% 1.0% 0.4% 1.8% 3.3% 3.5% And once again you show that you can not reply to any post without making a personal attack. I'm still failed to see what a single never-heard stat has to do with the reality on desktops.
Once again you just proved you are way too clueless to even remotely be able to follow such difficult points like Windows 2003 is hardly a favored desktop OS in literally any target audience, let alone NT4.0 opr anything.
All you did so far is this: pulled out some numbers from your bottom part and waving it, without even barely interpreting them.
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Lincolnshire, IL | Not sure how much of their soul they had to sell, but i'm glad this is finally moving forward. It's a start. I would think the next step would be to get it integrated into a media center so it can stream to the living room set- which would likely mean the windows variety, not MythTV.
It will be interesting to see what some ISP's think of this. Both from a bandwidth and video-on-demand perspective.
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Toronto, ON | No choice for Netflix They had to give their existing customer base free access to the online service.
I was watching Blockbuster ads pimping their stores as a quicker way of returning the movie and not having to wait for a replacement - well, Netflix can tell the lazy customer (like me!) that now, they can download a replacement, no need to drive to some store. 
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1 edit | Re: No choice for Netflix Netflix is going to have their ass handed to them by Blockbuster and this new bring it to the store plan. This is the best flexing of brick and mortar muscle I have seen. People aren't going to futz with streaming download bullshit for hours when they can go down the block to their blockbuster and drop off the movie and get another one.
If I had stock in netflix, I'd be selling.
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Evergreen, CO | Re: No choice for Netflix I subscribe to Netflix so I don't have to go to Blockbuster. | |
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2 edits | Re: No choice for Netflix Have you ever been to a Blockbuster store? Driving in traffic to get there, the lines once I do get there and the idiotic people... why exactly would I waste my time?
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Tulsa, OK | Re: No choice for Netflix I can walk to Blockbuster if I wanted to. You must live in the sticks.....oh wait I see Jackson, MS. No wonder.
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North Aurora, IL | Re: No choice for Netflix said by inteller:I can walk to Blockbuster if I wanted to. You must live in the sticks.....oh wait I see Jackson, MS. No wonder. Tulsa is the cradle of Western civilization now?    | |
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North Aurora, IL | Re: No choice for Netflix said by inteller:compared to North Aurora, IL....yes. But the comparison was not with North Aurora, it was with Jackson, MS? | |
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Tulsa, OK | Re: No choice for Netflix Jackson, MS, home of Worldcom crooks....nuff said. | |
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2 edits | Re: No choice for Netflix said by inteller:Jackson, MS, home of Worldcom crooks....nuff said. Jeez, what a retarded arguement. :P
Lets get back on topic here. It was never about blockbuster. This was about free downloads from Netflix. If Blockbuster makes you happy, then great. You don't need to argue your point to the point of insulting other users. :P
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Who cares? This thread is about Netflix and downloads, not Blockbuster and their only selections of BIG hit movies (no obscure or indie films, or if so, in supply) and 90 copies of Open Season with only one on shelf...oh look, the pimple-faced clerk has 4 copies behind the counter but wants to chat about his level 50 WoW character with the other over-weight, pasty-faced clerk-asst mngr. | |
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Brooklyn, NY | said by inteller:I can walk to Blockbuster if I wanted to. You must live in the sticks.....oh wait I see Jackson, MS. No wonder. ... posting it from Tulsa, OKLAHOMA which occupies the shockingly high 93rd spot on the list of largest cities in North America?
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Luckily, traffic was not an issue for me as it was for you, my neighborhood Blockbuster is just around the corner from where I live.
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| said by inteller:enjoy waiting for your intentionally delayed movies while others pick up news ones from blockbuster. Zealotry gets you no where. That is exactly why I am now subscribing to Blockbuster and cancelling my Netflix account. They intentionally delay movies from being reported as being recieved, even though you drop them all at the same time. I work at the main Postal facility and know how the system works, when the driver for Netflix arrives to pick-up the thousands of discs. For them to report that not all of the discs have been returned is horsebleep! We won't even get into throttling. See ya Netflix.
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Tulsa, OK | Re: No choice for Netflix smaller than burger king? WTF? All the blockbusters here are HUGE.
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kudos:2 | Re: No choice for Netflix said by inteller:smaller than burger king? WTF? All the blockbusters here are HUGE. Most of the ones here have been closed down.
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Vallejo, CA | said by kyramilan:You can only return movies not rent any but 1 a month with Blockbuster. And, look at the crappy selection at local stores that are smaller than Burger King. BZZZZT! Wrong answer. I dropped Netflix ages ago due to crappy delivery. With the new blockbuster system, I can take all three of my envelopes down do to the store and here's what happens:
1) I get 3 rentals of my choice
2) The next day the movies clear my queue
3) My next 3 movies ship.
So, in total, I now have 6 movies when I'm only paying to rent 3.
Explain to me, exactly, how that is only renting on movie per month? Or how that's only able to "return movies"?
Do some research on how it really works before spouting off garbage.
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Arlington, VA | Thats an extremely shortsighted view. Netflix subscribers that have not already jumped ship for Blockbuster won't.....and that reason is because they are happy.
I myself do not run home every day just to sit on my azz and watch movies. I have dinner dates, homework assignments, Movie dates and other social activities that keep me busy. As a result I have downgraded my Netflix subscription to two out at a time because I don't watch the movies quickly enough.
I belive the only people that are gonna run to Blockbuster will be those like my roommate whose sole existence is to come home watch movies, eat, drink and smoke in his bedroom at every moment he gets, because hes a lazy azz with no life.
Now don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with having a day to yourself and vegging out, and doing things that make you happy.....but my roomie will park his car on Friday after work and go to his room and neither he nor his car would move until its time to go back to work.
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| said by inteller:Netflix is going to have their ass handed to them by Blockbuster and this new bring it to the store plan. This is the best flexing of brick and mortar muscle I have seen. People aren't going to futz with streaming download bullshit for hours when they can go down the block to their blockbuster and drop off the movie and get another one. If I had stock in netflix, I'd be selling. Let's not forget that you are forced to watch the movie on your PC now too.
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| Re: No choice for Netflix Which is still the exception. Even at that, I have this wierd feeling that to view movies, you have to have IE open and you're watching it in some kind of window like that.
If this came in some Media-Center plugin i'd be a little happier.
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Let's not forget that you are forced to watch the movie on your PC now too.
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It is not even worth signing up for Blockbuster Online to be able to trade movies at the local brick and mortar store when the selection at my local store sucks and quantities are limited.
Blockbuster could stand to spruce up their web site also. It is almost as primitive as BMG IMO.
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Brooklyn, NY | said by inteller:Netflix is going to have their ass handed to them by Blockbuster and this new bring it to the store plan. This is the best flexing of brick and mortar muscle I have seen. People aren't going to futz with streaming download bullshit for hours when they can go down the block to their blockbuster and drop off the movie and get another one. I'd never even try to deal with BB and its craptastic local staff again, let alone its sorry-ass retarded selection.
If I had stock in netflix, I'd be selling.
I'd buy it. BB has only couple of more years to live then it'll die and noone will cry for them - their store selection sucks compared to Netflix, period.
I'm not interested retarded-shitty, lame American action heroes at all.
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Toronto, ON | Re: No choice for Netflix You guys have netflix equivalent services (no download though) here in Canada though... | |
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If you have a media PC then I guess this would be cool.
If they managed to stream 1080p or at least 1080i for movies then I might be in also.
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I switched from netflix to blockbuster a while ago. I loved netflix, but BB gives you more for the money. If you just compare renting 3 movies, they both arrive in your mail, and both have same selection. However, BB - evil as it is, also lets me take my movies to their store and walk out with 3 new rentals. There is no late fee if I return them in under a month from whey they were due back to the store... pretty reasonable. My store is not huge, but is big, and has great selection. All the pop movies, all the "old" pop movies, and lots of random movies I never look at. You can rent army of darkness if you want to. Finally, I also have 1 coupon per month I can print out and take to the store to get a free rental. Our BB store is close (maybe 1.5 miles) so we pass it frequently.
So, why would anyone choose netflix over BB?
1 - no good store nearby = lose of the benefit. Sucks for you, but don't say BB and flix are the same. Same for you but not for others.
2 - on principle, many people just don't like BB. Netflix on the other hand is breaking new ground. I'd rather give netflix my money and feel guilty for using BB, by I do prefer the opportunity to get so many more movies.
3 - BB website still not close to netflix. BB site is OK and functional, they finally have ajax and all that, but netflix multi-queue works better for any family with more than one movie watcher.
4 - Streaming Movies. Honestly, they have to make this free to compete. The other 3 reasons won't switch anyone. I don't like it [yet] because I don't have TV hooked up to my PC. My friend has HDTV hooked to his PC, and downloaded movies are great. I worry a bit about a streamed movie. Last thing you want is choppy internet affecting your movie. The other thing, streaming quality is NOT DVD quality. Don't kid yourself. I want dvd quality + surround sound, and I want it in my living room.
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