[quote author=boogieman link=topic=23115.msg1678392#msg1678392 date=1279876927]
The IT Crowd is a good show too, and has at least 3 seasons on Netflix Streaming.
My friend got into it and he just made me watch it.
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I tried watching that show, gave it about six episodes, and it just never stuck. And that's weird because I love British comedies most of the time.
[quote author=jeneria link=topic=23115.msg1678553#msg1678553 date=1279905548]
I tried watching that show, gave it about six episodes, and it just never stuck. And that's weird because I love British comedies most of the time.
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Have you watched Coupling? I hated it when i first started watching it, then i spent an entire week finishing all of it. haha.
[quote author=portia link=topic=23115.msg1678577#msg1678577 date=1279908554]
Have you watched Coupling? I hated it when i first started watching it, then i spent an entire week finishing all of it. haha.
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Coupling was great for the first few years, but then when they did the whole baby thing, I lost interest.
[quote author=jeneria link=topic=23115.msg1678591#msg1678591 date=1279909270]
Coupling was great for the first few years, but then when they did the whole baby thing, I lost interest.
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true. it did get boring once she was knocked up.
[quote author=portia link=topic=23115.msg1678426#msg1678426 date=1279887593]
"Have you tried turning it off and then on again?" :lol:
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"Is it plugged in?" :lol:
[quote author=verysad2see link=topic=23115.msg1669874#msg1669874 date=1279046980]
I saw the Bridge. Fascinating. I wrote a fanfic once that featured the Golden Gate Bridge in one of the chapters, and I'm crazy so I do tons of research about most everything I write about. The GGB is a trip, and a monument to death. I can say one of the reasons I'm at MDS is because of that bridge. What an incredible symbol for the city, and the whole thing about the height of the railings, it's all too much. I want to see it in person one day.
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Here's an interesting site some of you might be interested in.
http://www.jumperpool.com/home.htm
It's actually for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida, but it gets reports of jumpers or possible jumpers, usually in real-time. It's pretty interesting.
so i got netflix and instant queue the last few days...
1. Funny Games(German Version)- Hilarious ...Most people dont understand the point..But a must see
2. lOUIS CK Chewed up.My favorite comedian..Funny
3. Gogol Bordello nonstop- Great documentary...If you can tolerate the band.
Need more instant q ideas.
Dogtown and Z Boys is now available for Instant Queue. It's a really good documentary, as opposed to the movie Lords of Dogtown....which I thought sucked balls.
[quote author=portia link=topic=23115.msg1690875#msg1690875 date=1281274704]
Dogtown and Z Boys is now available for Instant Queue. It's a really good documentary, as opposed to the movie Lords of Dogtown....which I thought sucked balls.
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Agreed. On both points.
If you like war docs Ken Burns does some great stuff. Both The War (2007) and The Civil War (1990) are on instant view. 
oh man, this thread reminds me that i really ought to mail back my dvds. i've had one since last fall and i still haven't watched it...
Originally Posted by Ron_NYC
Updated: 4:52 p.m.: At a cost of nearly one billion dollars, Netflix on Tuesday said it would add films from Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate and MGM to its online subscription service.
It was a coup — albeit a costly one — for Netflix, which knows its needs to lock up the digital rights to films as customers stop receiving DVDs by mail and start receiving streams via the Internet. The deal will commence Sept. 1.
Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer for Netflix, said he is essentially taking the “huge pile of money” that Netflix pays in postage for DVDs by mail — about $600 million this year — “and starting to pay it to the studios and networks.”
Wall Street analysts estimated that Netflix would pay about $900 million over the course of five years to Epix, a fledgling competitor to HBO that holds the rights to the film output of Paramount, Lions Gate and MGM. Those payments are expected to help the money-losing Epix break even in the next fiscal year.
The Epix deal will add new releases like “Iron Man” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” to Netflix’s catalog, greatly enhancing the “Watch Instantly” streaming service that the company markets to subscribers as part of an $8.99 package that also includes DVD deliveries. It was the second film deal for Netflix this summer, coming a month after a pact with Relativity Media, the firm run by Ryan Kavanaugh.
Netflix’s open checkbook demonstrates that Internet streaming is clearly coming to the forefront in Hollywood, but in a carefully controlled manner. Mr. Sarandos said in an interview Tuesday that the content deals were part of “our continued commitment to making streaming a better and better proposition for our subscribers.”
Netflix’s future depends in large part on cutting financial deals that keep those streams in place.
The company first took on the likes of Blockbuster with DVDs by mail. Then, in 2007, it set its sights on online streaming, but existing deals with pay TV operators like HBO made it impossible to stream many of the biggest film releases. These deals preserve what is called the pay television window, which opens up about a year after a film is first released in theaters and gives HBO, Showtime or Starz about 18 months of screening (and, more recently, Web streaming) time.
Pay TV arrangements are important contributors to the bottom lines of Hollywood studios, helping them wring more money out of both blockbusters and flops. These arrangements rely on cable and satellite carriers to collect monthly payments.
Accordingly, the movies that were initially available on the “Watch Instantly” service were mostly ones “you’ve never heard of,” Mr. Sarandos said. But the company in 2008 cut an important deal with Starz that allowed access to high-profile films from Sony and The Walt Disney Company. Now it is adding more films through the payments to Epix.
In doing so, it is essentially creating a brand new window for movie viewing, one that does not depend on cable or satellite carriers. “If you own content, you want to sell it to as many people as possible without blowing up your existing revenue streams,” said the Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne.
At the same time, having Netflix in the marketplace puts pressure on cable and satellite providers “because you’ve got another bidder out there,” he said.
The 2-year-old Epix is invisible to most consumers because it has had trouble gaining space on those carriers’ systems. But it is preserving the deals it does have by carving out a three-month TV window for films before they are available to Netflix subscribers.
Jon Feltheimer, the chief executive of Lions Gate, told analysts Tuesday that “by creating this groundbreaking new window for their streaming service, we both protect our traditional MSO customers and create a significant and guaranteed new revenue stream for our service.” MSO is an abbreviation for cable and satellite carriers.
The Los Angeles Times first reported the pending deal on Monday.
Netflix says it prefers to be a distributor for pay TV — not a competitor to it — and wants to license content from HBO and Showtime. HBO has the rights to Fox, Universal and Warner films for at least the next four years.
Asked about the giant amount of content that Netflix was lacking due to HBO’s deals, Mr. Sarandos seemed to take a long-term view. “Every deal expires,” he said, “and every deal has to be renewed.”
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[quote author=songbirdsong link=topic=23115.msg1696347#msg1696347 date=1282002233]
Updated: 4:52 p.m.: At a cost of nearly one billion dollars, Netflix on Tuesday said it would add films from Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate and MGM to its online subscription service.
It was a coup — albeit a costly one — for Netflix, which knows its needs to lock up the digital rights to films as customers stop receiving DVDs by mail and start receiving streams via the Internet. The deal will commence Sept. 1.
Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer for Netflix, said he is essentially taking the “huge pile of money” that Netflix pays in postage for DVDs by mail — about $600 million this year — “and starting to pay it to the studios and networks.”
Wall Street analysts estimated that Netflix would pay about $900 million over the course of five years to Epix, a fledgling competitor to HBO that holds the rights to the film output of Paramount, Lions Gate and MGM. Those payments are expected to help the money-losing Epix break even in the next fiscal year.
The Epix deal will add new releases like “Iron Man” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” to Netflix’s catalog, greatly enhancing the “Watch Instantly” streaming service that the company markets to subscribers as part of an $8.99 package that also includes DVD deliveries. It was the second film deal for Netflix this summer, coming a month after a pact with Relativity Media, the firm run by Ryan Kavanaugh.
Netflix’s open checkbook demonstrates that Internet streaming is clearly coming to the forefront in Hollywood, but in a carefully controlled manner. Mr. Sarandos said in an interview Tuesday that the content deals were part of “our continued commitment to making streaming a better and better proposition for our subscribers.”
Netflix’s future depends in large part on cutting financial deals that keep those streams in place.
The company first took on the likes of Blockbuster with DVDs by mail. Then, in 2007, it set its sights on online streaming, but existing deals with pay TV operators like HBO made it impossible to stream many of the biggest film releases. These deals preserve what is called the pay television window, which opens up about a year after a film is first released in theaters and gives HBO, Showtime or Starz about 18 months of screening (and, more recently, Web streaming) time.
Pay TV arrangements are important contributors to the bottom lines of Hollywood studios, helping them wring more money out of both blockbusters and flops. These arrangements rely on cable and satellite carriers to collect monthly payments.
Accordingly, the movies that were initially available on the “Watch Instantly” service were mostly ones “you’ve never heard of,” Mr. Sarandos said. But the company in 2008 cut an important deal with Starz that allowed access to high-profile films from Sony and The Walt Disney Company. Now it is adding more films through the payments to Epix.
In doing so, it is essentially creating a brand new window for movie viewing, one that does not depend on cable or satellite carriers. “If you own content, you want to sell it to as many people as possible without blowing up your existing revenue streams,” said the Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne.
At the same time, having Netflix in the marketplace puts pressure on cable and satellite providers “because you’ve got another bidder out there,” he said.
The 2-year-old Epix is invisible to most consumers because it has had trouble gaining space on those carriers’ systems. But it is preserving the deals it does have by carving out a three-month TV window for films before they are available to Netflix subscribers.
Jon Feltheimer, the chief executive of Lions Gate, told analysts Tuesday that “by creating this groundbreaking new window for their streaming service, we both protect our traditional MSO customers and create a significant and guaranteed new revenue stream for our service.” MSO is an abbreviation for cable and satellite carriers.
The Los Angeles Times first reported the pending deal on Monday.
Netflix says it prefers to be a distributor for pay TV — not a competitor to it — and wants to license content from HBO and Showtime. HBO has the rights to Fox, Universal and Warner films for at least the next four years.
Asked about the giant amount of content that Netflix was lacking due to HBO’s deals, Mr. Sarandos seemed to take a long-term view. “Every deal expires,” he said, “and every deal has to be renewed.”
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Good find. It's funny, as I have discs sitting around while I watch movies and docs from my ROKU. We use the hell out of the instant view.
latest viewings:
Ken Burns The Civil War- FIVE STAR
Zombieland-FIVE STAR
I have Funny People at the house and I'm almost at the end, not a funny movie but so far so good.
I wonder how the instant view model will work, will they regulate how many movies you can watch? That would suck.
But this is a relief:
Netflix Will Not Show Commercials on Streaming Movies or TV Shows
Reader Andy was watching Stargate Atlantis: Season 2 Episode 2 "The Intruder" on his Xbox and noticed breaks in the show that could be for commercials, and about 57 minutes into the show he saw the following images:
The video was probably sent to Netflix by mistake, but I asked Netflix's Steve Swasey and he had the following to say, "No commercials or sponsorships at Netflix. Subscription Only." Unlike Hulu Plus, where customers pay a subscription fee and endure commercials.
Oh guys, this is an awesome site and a great source for netflix news:
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/
[quote author=whackjob link=topic=23115.msg1691787#msg1691787 date=1281376644]
oh man, this thread reminds me that i really ought to mail back my dvds. i've had one since last fall and i still haven't watched it...
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:lol: I go through like 8 DVDs a week. I have to cut back my account though, as I don't have time for that many movies anymore. :-(
[quote author=boogieman link=topic=23115.msg1697907#msg1697907 date=1282161884]
:lol: I go through like 8 DVDs a week. I have to cut back my account though, as I don't have time for that many movies anymore. :-(
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i used to go through that many easy but then we got u-verse and i find myself suddenly watching tv i never used to watch instead. :oops: i have to cut back my account too. i won't give it up completely though cos on occasion i like to stream on the wii.
Love the watch instantly feature. We no longer have cable, just netflix.
HBO is the last holdout for Netflix. It's a revolution!
I HATE MICHAEL CERA and refuse to watch any more of his movies.
Not sure if I have said this before, But one of my favorite movies I have found through Netflix Streaming is 'Postal'. It's loosely based off the PC game of the same name (and is probably the only good game-based movie Uwe Boll will ever make). Not for the easily offended. :lol:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Postal/70075043?strackid=13b11a9d6d84745a_0_srl&strki d=195496871_0_0&trkid=438381
Dexter Season 4, Disc 1 arriving today. Finally!
[quote author=mydeathspace link=topic=23115.msg1699314#msg1699314 date=1282333822]
Dexter Season 4, Disc 1 arriving today. Finally!
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Ah, updating my queue.
I am watching 'the Good, the Bad, and the Weird'. It's not on Instant, but if it's not in your DVD queue... Then you are missing out. Great movie, so long as you don't mind subtitles (Movie itself is in Korean). :-D
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Good_the_Bad_the_Weird/70107134?trkid=226870
[quote author=strmmrgrrl link=topic=23115.msg1443526#msg1443526 date=1257905871]
Love Netflix!!!! And yes, the documentaries available for streaming are amazing. We have stream to the XBox but I'm thinking of getting a Roku for my mum for xmas.
Here's me and hubby:
http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PZpfVkxCMeiWssgGHRQC
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I like watching documentaries. Do you have any recommendations? I use my netflix account to watch mostly older movies.
[quote author=browneyes106 link=topic=23115.msg1704101#msg1704101 date=1282947552]
I like watching documentaries. Do you have any recommendations? I use my netflix account to watch mostly older movies.
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Documentary's I have watched/liked:
-Maxed out (About the Credit card industry)
-Gunner palace (Not streaming, but shows what it's 'really' like for soldiers in Iraq)
-Big Rig (Chronicles the lives of Truck Drivers)
-Michael Moore Hates America
-Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness (About Urban Exploring)
-The Human Face (4 part BBC mini-series on all aspects of the human face. Very interesting. Hosted by John Cleese)
-This Film Is Not Yet Rated (About how lame the movie ratings industry is)
-Infamy (a Decent documentary about Graffiti artists)
[quote author=boogieman link=topic=23115.msg1704159#msg1704159 date=1282951812]
Documentary's I have watched/liked:
-Maxed out (About the Credit card industry)
-Gunner palace (Not streaming, but shows what it's 'really' like for soldiers in Iraq)
-Big Rig (Chronicles the lives of Truck Drivers)
-Michael Moore Hates America
-Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness (About Urban Exploring)
-The Human Face (4 part BBC mini-series on all aspects of the human face. Very interesting. Hosted by John Cleese
-This Film Is Not Yet Rated (About how lame the movie ratings industry is)
-Infamy (a Decent documentary about Graffiti artists)
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Thanks for the suggestions. I kind of remember reading about the Human Face. I saw This Film Is Not Yet Rated for a film class and I agree it showed how lame the movie ratings system is.
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