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PostPosted: 18:14 - 09 Jan 2012    Post subject: Netflix now launced in the UK, pretty cheap Reply with quote

£6 for all the content they hold, not bad to be fair. Not sure what quality it comes through at but I believe its decent in the states.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2084177/Netflix-UK-launch-US-giant-takes-gamble-fierce-web-TV-battle-shapes-Amazon.html
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PostPosted: 18:32 - 09 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Splendid, I must check my LoveFilm subscription tonight and see how much more they've suddenly started offering. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 09 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sod that.

XBMC, Icefilms plugin. Win.
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PostPosted: 19:12 - 09 Jan 2012    Post subject: Re: Netflix now launced in the UK, pretty cheap Reply with quote

Neorion wrote:
£6 for all the content they hold, not bad to be fair. Not sure what quality it comes through at but I believe its decent in the states.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2084177/Netflix-UK-launch-US-giant-takes-gamble-fierce-web-TV-battle-shapes-Amazon.html


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PostPosted: 04:50 - 10 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tarmacsurfer wrote:
Sod that.

XBMC, Icefilms plugin. Win.


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PostPosted: 08:25 - 10 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Signed up yesterday with the 1 month free trial, enjoying it so far and it works on all my devices.

I can now procrastinate more effectively whilst at work! Laughing
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PostPosted: 08:47 - 10 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

calyx wrote:
Tarmacsurfer wrote:
Sod that.

XBMC, Icefilms plugin. Win.


+1


And me. On apple tv
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PostPosted: 15:21 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mega Upload is shut. Icefilms is fucked Laughing

Any alternatives?
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PostPosted: 17:02 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skip a couple of hits on the bong and support content producers by actually paying for your stuff? It's a crazy idea, but it just! Might! Work!
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PostPosted: 17:26 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do if I like it and it's available easily. Given my taste in East Asian cinema it's a bit difficult to wander down to the local Super-Mega-Ultimate-ColourPalace to pay £8 for a ticket, £10 for something that might possibly qualify as "refreshments" if you squint and it's dark enough, then sit in a room full of mouth breathing troglodytes that seem incapable of keeping their opinions to themselves whilst an AV "technician" proceeds to press play to make the pretty lights appear (often badly out of focus) and crank the sound up to painful levels. Netflix - the original topic - is crippled in terms of content and personally I won't pay for that sort of limited range when it contains nothing of interest.

Given the sheer volume of regurgitated shite that is pushed out by the meedja, most particularly the old boys network we call Hollywood, then it's obvious why they are so desperate to maintain a stranglehold on consumers by making damn sure that the only thing available on our screens are their own brand of high budget low value dross.

Not that you care Mr.Borg, no doubt your existence is one of spotless austerity with nary a peep from an exemplary social conscience. You may rest assured that thieving scum like myself are causing the downfall of Western Culture Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:35 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tarmacsurfer wrote:
Netflix - the original topic - is crippled in terms of content

Most likely, it's telling that they don't provide a proper search facility before you sign up. I take it that they don't carry any of your tentacle porn then?


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Not that you care Mr.Borg, no doubt your existence is one of spotless austerity with nary a peep from an exemplary social conscience.

Indeed, I strangle my prostitutes with the firm conviction of the truly innocent mind. Praying


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You may rest assured that thieving scum like myself are causing the downfall of Western Culture Laughing

It essentially ended with the downfall of the Roman empire, with a brief resurgence in the form of 90's televisual classics like Pride and Prejudice and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but indeed, it's truly been the dark ages since then. Sad
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PostPosted: 18:37 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Skip a couple of hits on the bong and support content producers by actually paying for your stuff? It's a crazy idea, but it just! Might! Work!


You mean pay so much per unit a bunch of fucks each get to own three houses and a fleet of cars and boats and shit? Get to fuck.
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
It essentially ended with the downfall of the Roman empire, with a brief resurgence in the form of 90's televisual classics like Pride and Prejudice and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but indeed, it's truly been the dark ages since then. Sad


I'm with you when it comes to that adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, one of the many cases of enjoying content so much I've purchased it on multiple media formats.

Jennifer Ehle, she's worth it. The Camomile Lawn wasn't bad either Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 22:56 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, subbed up. Quality is OK, but I'm watching over composite on a Wii so it'll never be that great anyway.

The library is pretty sparse, a few sub-blockbuster films from 2 or 3 years ago plus a fairly eclectic mix of older films and movies - kudos for A Boy and His Dog. Worth a free try, but they'll need to get a lot more content on there with weeks to retain their initial trial customers.

The forced Facebook integration can shag itself with a bad-AIDS infected cactus, needless to say.
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PostPosted: 23:19 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm if you wanted to watch movies try this site below:

https://www.1channel.ch/index.php?sort=featured

Normally use the putlocker as that is the easiest to use then download with this if you are on Firefox convert Hd movies into 300mb files no need to torrent movies anymore:

https://www.downloadhelper.net/
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PostPosted: 02:28 - 21 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Skip a couple of hits on the bong and support content producers by actually paying for your stuff? It's a crazy idea, but it just! Might! Work!


Believe me it doesn't work. Quality of lovefilm, netflix etc is rubbish.

BTW those producers are a bit rich. When I say "a bit" I mean 10 digit figures.
If I knew I wouldn't get caught, I would steal stephen spielberg's 3 billion dollar. He would still be rich though...
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PostPosted: 11:21 - 21 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, if you like, but what with DVRs making adverts trivially skippable as well, strap yourself in for a return to the likes of "Dr Pepper's 24" where Jack extols the virtues of taking a refreshing hit of ice cold fizzy caffeinated tooth-rot every 5 minutes.

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PostPosted: 00:23 - 22 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Skip a couple of hits on the bong and support content producers by actually paying for your stuff? It's a crazy idea, but it just! Might! Work!


I thought that so got an account with love film. but because the movie companys demand love film use microsoft silverlight it now wont work with my linux pc and android tablet. So its much easier to do it ileaglly, i wonder how long before netflix is the same.
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PostPosted: 00:27 - 22 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Skip a couple of hits on the bong and support content producers by actually paying for your stuff? It's a crazy idea, but it just! Might! Work!


I thought that so got an account with love film. but because the movie companys demand love film use microsoft silverlight it now wont work with my linux pc and android tablet. So its much easier to do it ileaglly, i wonder how long before netflix is the same.
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PostPosted: 00:28 - 22 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Skip a couple of hits on the bong and support content producers by actually paying for your stuff? It's a crazy idea, but it just! Might! Work!


I thought that so got an account with love film. but because the movie companys demand love film use microsoft silverlight it now wont work with my linux pc and android tablet. So its much easier to do it ileaglly, i wonder how long before netflix is the same.
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PostPosted: 01:31 - 22 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dunno I dunno I dunno but it's not the same but it's not the same but it's not the same now now now.
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 30 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quick BUYP for anyone trying it, to note that there's some stuff on it that doesn't appear to be isn't browsable via the menu categories on the Wii interface, at least as far as I can see.

It's searchable if you know what you're looking for, but you have to go to their intardtubes site and spot it there. And even at that, some of it is bizarrely mis-categorised. How is Firefly not "TV SciFi and Fantasy"?

Major usability and marketing issue, I'd have thought, having SUPAR SEKRIT content. Confused
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PostPosted: 00:58 - 31 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lovefilm instant is 4.99 and has better content and the xbox/ps3 apps don't suck ring. Also my tv has the app direct. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 10:26 - 31 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iain 007 wrote:
Lovefilm instant is 4.99 and has better content and the xbox/ps3 apps don't suck ring. Also my tv has the app direct. Thumbs Up


It must have improved since I last used it about a year ago.

there was guff on it apart from xmas vacation and thats OLD.
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PostPosted: 10:27 - 31 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iain 007 wrote:
Lovefilm instant is 4.99 and has better content and the xbox/ps3 apps don't suck ring. Also my tv has the app direct. Thumbs Up


Mmm, I never ever bothered setting up Lovefilm streaming, the catalogue looked a bit thin and They Do Say that the streaming quality is (or was) pants. I might give it a go now, let them fight it out.
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