usenetrocks
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Re: netflix untill the price drops about 7 dollars
7 bucks??? you wanna pay the price of a movie theatre admission (they're 6.50 in town here, used to be 4.00 a couple years ago and 8.00 or more in the city) to buy a movie you can only watch on a computer monitor?
for 4-5 bucks you can rent a ppv from satellite or cable and watch it on your tv set AND (in most cases) record it as well to tape or dvd. for a few bucks you can rent a dvd from a rental store or service...
for 7-10 bucks or so a month you can subscribe to a premium movie service (hbo, etc), and record-to-keep anything that's aired, including 'on demand' selections and hd too.
so, for crippled computer-only movie downloads, i say a fair price is more like 2 bucks (or less) a movie.. 50-75 cents for an hour long (40-45 minutes w/o ads) tv show, and 25-50 cents for a half-hour (20-22 minutes) show.
but the first site that streams movies on a system like abc did a few months ago (and still does for abc family shows like kyle xy & three moons), with limited ads, for free will be the site that takes this 'non-dvd-compatible' computer-only online movie business. |
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c0de
join:2004-10-14
Richmond, VA | reply to fldiver
right and how big were those files and how long was it taking you to download one. |
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fldiver
Premium
join:1999-12-27
Jacksonville, FL | reply to c0de
I used Vonage for a while and the quality wasn't too bad (sub dvd); but their limited selection of less than 2000 movies was a real turn off; so I stuck with Netflix..online downloads just isn't ready for prime time in my humble opinion.
-Dan |
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c0de
join:2004-10-14
Richmond, VA | reply to arundc
seriously, has anyone used such a service, im curious to know what size the files are and if you can choose quality and download times, i have 11mbits down at my house, but im guessing they dont push them from thier servers at that speed? |
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arundc
join:2004-08-11 | reply to c0de
waiting for an hour to download? you must have DSL :-O j/k peace!  |
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c0de
join:2004-10-14
Richmond, VA
| i agree about watching TV on a monitor, but then again i can watch it on my bigscreen cuz i gots de media center hooked up to it.
But i would just rather use netflix as for 15$ bucks or so a month i get as many as i want, and perhaps its not as quick as downloading a movie, but the quality is better (and i could copy it if there was no copy protection on it), and i really am too busy to sit in front of a computer for an hour or so waiting for a movie to download. when it gets here it gets here. |
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