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Hey, i signed up for this. Anyone else in here DIGGINT THIS SHIT????

Anyone want to be friends>????? me and scarymuppet already are but all SOMBies on netflix should be friends!!

my email on there is

megatug@gmail.com

Street teamer.

The key to netflix.. is to get yourself a nice little program like mac the ripper... not that I do such a thing as I am not the big a movie fan.. but if you have a big ass hard drive you can save your favorite stuff and even take it with you and your portable...

Hooray for Netflix and threads that are bumped after a year!

Okay, I've got Seven Up/Seven Plus Seven and The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia coming today.

Has anyone seen either of these? Have you seen any of the Seven docs?

Netflix descriptions:

Appalachia

7, 7+7



What's in your queue? Recommend something.

Jesus Camp. everyone should see it...

nobody should rent 11:14, awful movie.
Yes Rachel Leigh Cook looks smokin hott, but dumb movie

i put my Netflix acct on hold, i have to save some cash and didnt have time to watch movies while i was moving

try the now playing thread or maybe the SOMBs fav movies of the 80's or maybe the SOMBs best of 2006 for suggestions.

and yes, everyone should see Jesus Camp.

I watched the Prestige, last night, good flick. Made sure I had it in the mail this am so Netflix will be sending me Borat on Monday.

Netflix is the only place where I could find Freaks, and old 30's movie about circus freaks performed by actual circus freaks. It's kind of a trip, but a must-see.

I just got an e-mail, they've dropped my monthly susbscription fee by $1
Their bad times are my good times.

How should I spend this windfall?

$12? Go buy a DVD for keeps.

Drugs. Very small amounts and very poor quality. Party on.

How long can you put your account on hold?

indefinitely ^^^ when you're ready to reactivate it, you just log back in.

I've got nearly 300 DVDs sitting in my queue. I'm never going to get to all of them. But there's stuff they have that you can't find anywhere, like all of Kubrick's films, Brotherhood starring Kirk Douglas which was the precedent to The Godfather. And a whole lot of foreign, independent and TV shows that no one really carries. Yeah, you can buy pretty much everything, but why do that?

Anybody ever use their streaming movie service? (Click on the Watch Now tab if you have never used it.) All the movies, tv shows and docs are high quality. Depending on your Netflix plan, you get a certain amount of hours to watch a month. (I am on the $17 plan, so I get 17 hours.)

There is some cool stuff on there, and a lot of classic movies, so check it out if you haven't already.

Gah, I've been Notflixing "Henry Fool" for at least a month, now.

Henry Fool and Fay Grim did for me what I thought no film could ever do: turned me off of Parker Posey.

Henry Fool was great, though Posey was more on the periphery -- she had some good lines in that one "after a few drinks, alot of guys think I'm 18". Fay Grim was only good compared to Hartley's last two films.

Alright, first downside to Netflix.....

My wife and I finished a movie. The next morning, I took the movie out and put in a disc of Season 5 of Scrubs. I went to work. The wife wakes up, takes the movie out of the DVD player (which she still assumes is the rental) and puts it in the envelope and sends it off.

When I come home, I call Netflix, and while they did credit my account for the amount of the DVD (but only $9, because they figure the 3-disc set would cost $30), they can't return the disc.

Bummer.

Make sure your wife sends back the other discs in the Scrubs set.

SAN FRANCISCO - DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. will begin delivering movies and other programming directly to televisions later this year through a set-top box that will pipe entertainment over a high-speed Internet connection.

The set-top box, to be made by LG Electronics Inc. as part of a partnership announced late Wednesday, is designed to broaden the appeal of a year-old streaming service that Netflix provides to its 7 million subscribers at no additional charge.

LG Electronics didn't reveal how much the set-top box will cost when it hits the market in the summer or early autumn. Similar devices made by Apple Inc. and Vudu Inc. cost $299 to $399.


A bevy of other gadgets designed to bring more digital entertainment into living rooms is expected to be unveiled next week at a major consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.

Netflix's streaming service is the cornerstone of the Los Gatos-based company's strategy to retain and attract customers as technology makes it easier to rent and buy movies within a few minutes instead of waiting for them to be delivered through the mail.

Although Netflix says its subscribers have watched more than 10 million movies and TV episodes through its "Watch Instantly" option so far, the streaming service has been too constraining for many subscribers.

That's because all the streaming service's programming must be watched on a personal computer, unless the viewer knows how to link a high-speed Internet connection into a TV monitor.

The set-top box is supposed to serve as a bridge that will enable just about anyone with a high-speed Internet connection to plug in a few wires so they will be able to access Netflix's Watch Instantly feature on their TVs.

Subscribers will still need to use a computer to pick out which programs they're interested in streaming. The selections, culled from more than 6,000 titles available in streaming library, will then show up on the TV screen.

"It's going to be very slick and easy," said Reed Hastings, Netflix's chief executive officer. "We want the TV experience to be very relaxing and not like visiting a Web site."

Depending on which subscription plan they have, Netflix customers can watch anywhere from five to 48 hours of programming through the streaming service each month at no extra cost.

The LG Electronics alliance is just the first of several partnerships Netflix hopes to strike this year to extend its delivery options beyond the mail. Although he wouldn't provide specifics, Hastings listed video game consoles and high-definition DVD players as other potential channels for Netflix.

"We want to see 100 Netflix-capable devices on the market," Hastings said.

With more than 90,000 titles available in its DVD library, delivering movies through the mail is expected to remain Netflix's primary money maker for years to come.

Nevertheless, Netflix has spent about $40 million on the development of its streaming service during the past year.

The financial commitment hasn't been enough to convince many investors that Netflix will be able to survive a widely anticipated shift that that will turn DVDs into an afterthought as digital downloading proliferates.

The persisting worries are one of the biggest reasons that Netflix's stock price remains roughly 30 percent below its highs of nearly four years ago, even though the company has become more profitable while signing up millions of new subscribers since then. Netflix shares fell 27 cents Wednesday to finish at $26.35.

Netflix's growth tapered off last year amid tougher competition from Blockbuster Inc., but Blockbuster recently signaled it's backing off in the battle by raising the prices of several popular plans.

One of Netflix's most formidable threats yet may be looming just around the corner, with Apple reportedly preparing to launch an online movie rental service that is supposed to include titles from News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney Co.

Apple so far hasn't commented on the reports, which have predicted a formal announcement will be made at the Cupertino-based company's Macworld conference later this month.

An online movie rental service could give more people a reason to buy Apple's device for delivering programming to TVs. The gadget, called Apple TV, so far hasn't taken off like the company's wildly popular iPod and iPhone. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimates about 1.8 million Apple TV devices had been sold through 2007, but he expects another 2.9 million units to ship this year.

"If (Apple) does what has been reported, they will reach a very big market," Hastings said. "But the addition of Apple to the rental market isn't causing us to lose any sleep."

cool, i need to get me a new tv in 2009 anyway.

I was wondering if there was already a netflix thread.

I finally got set up with mine.

http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PWRgzryvpDMJPMxTkRMr

Fucking netdicks. I put my account on hold for 2 months thinking that I wouldn't be charged for them, and now the cc statement came with two $22 charges from these assholes. Fuckers.

Talk to someone about it Netflix has amazing customer service and conflict resolution. In fact, I heard on the radio a couple days ago that they were vote best company in America for customer experience. Although, is it possible you just fucked up? And how were there charges on your CC for two months worth of service in one statement?

Well, I don't see how this could've been my fault since I had nothing to do with netflix for those couple of months. I had no idea how two charges showed up. What's even stranger is my subscription comes to $14 a month, I think.

I just signed up again last week. I'm finally catching up on Six Feet Under.

I hate to say it, but Blockbuster rules. I get movies by mail, and, for each movie I return to the store, I get another movie, meaning I see at least 20 movies per month at that price.

And, for lack of a better place to post it, one of my three movies recently was a two-disc set for which I received two free in-store movies. Now I'm suddenly set at four movies at a time for the same price. Woo hoo!

Did you notice the price increase?

Yes, but two dollars was nothing, considering that, for every movie I get in the mail, I can exchange it for a free movie, which is now four at a time, thanks to Once Upon a Time in America's two discs.

20 movies a month?! How do you have time for that?

Working second shift and needing a way to decompress after midnight before going to bed.

Reminds me of when I managed a blockbuster video store during my first couple years of college. We got free movies so I'd always get home at about 1am, put a movie in and fall asleep on the couch. I saw the first 30 minutes of hundreds of movies those years.

So, does Netflix have some kind of deal with the devil? And by "the devil" I mean the United States Postal Service. How is it that all other mail takes forever, but Netflix gets my movies about 12 hours after I put it in the mail and 24 hours later I have a new one in hand.

no shit red....i'm still getting xmas cards that were sent mid december. netflix...on the fuckin money.

It does help that they only have to go as far as bedford park.

It may help, but I've had stuff I sent to Chicago addresses take more than a week. So it doesn't fully explain it.

I think the oversized envelope gets it put into a less congested path to delivery. Plus, I read an article about Netflix facilities, and they have drivers go out to the post office to pick up that day's deliveries at like 4-5AM to take back for processing. Possibly in Chicago, they may make several runs to the post office per day enabling them to occasionally process something the same day you mailed it.

That's funny

YES! I'm not on Netflix anymore (I think Blockbuster is better), but I was continually amazed by the Netflix turn around time.

Those who use the Instant Streaming feature are probably aware of how difficult it is to tell what's streaming and when. This site allows you to organize based on multiple categories and even tells you what's coming up and what's expiring soon.

I still love instastream, despite all of the recent turmoil at Netflix. That said, it's sort of inexcusable that titles in the queue don't have a clearly marked expiration date. They should have fixed that instead of spending so much time/money ruining the interface.

I think Starz is really going to regret turning down the $300 million per year though the narrative is being written like it's Netflix that's in trouble.

I agree. I read somewhere that Starz's catalog only makes up about 8% of the Netflix library, and that percentage has only been decreasing. Plus, a lot of the Starz catalog is quite simply crap. I'm not sure how popular the titles are in terms of views, but that $300 million can be probably be put better use.

Starz has exclusive deals with Sony and Disney. So what I'm assuming is going to happen is that Netflix is going to turn around make side deals with other studios who would happily accept 9-10 figures a year to stream their stuff. Meanwhile, as cable television becomes more and more irrelevant and reliant on wifi and on-demand technologies, Netflix's power is only going to get bigger while Starz legitimately runs the risk of becoming obsolete.

what's Netflix gonna do with all that cash?

there were talks of them trying to purchase a pilot. I'm sure they'll be naysayers, but no one thought pay channels could compete and HBO changed the game.

be interesting to see if they do that and end up succeeding in original programming

They already put $100m into a new TV series by David Fincher. I guess Kevin Spacey is involved too.