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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:08 PM, PGage wrote: > > I have had a minor problem with buying books that pile up before I get a > chance to read them (I usually mow that down in the summer), though since I > got a Kindle in December that problem has almost completely evaporated. I > was a loud-mouth cr

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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:25 PM, David Risner wrote: > Kindle just added that page functionality in the latest software revision. > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200529700 > Excellent! Thanks. I guess that was my first wish. I will have to use my last two careful

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Kindle just added that page functionality in the latest software revision. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200529700 -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:08 PM, PGage wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:17

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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Tom Wolper wrote: > And at the same time I started Netflix I made a personal commitment, > in the form of a New Year's resolution, not to buy any new books until > I finish reading the books I already own. While I haven't been perfect > on the buying side, althou

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Understandable. Since I've been commuting for 3-4 hours a day (not everyday of the week, 2-3 days), I've been doing a lot of my "reading" via Audible. I never really thought I would like that method of consuming literature, but it has turned out to be very good for me. I can tell if I'm listenin

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On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:17:16 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: > > And to get a little more personal with it, I pretty much gave up going > to the movies in the late nineties. And not having any cable movie > channels, I just gave up watching movies and started compiling a > mental catalog of movi

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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Tom Wolper wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:41 PM, PGage wrote: >> >> Why did you change now? I thought there were keeping the status quo for >> current subscribers until September 1? > > I haven't changed yet. If changing the plan now will lower the monthly >

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I changed to just streaming since I usually end up keeping discs for about 3 months before getting new ones. Just not worth it to me to get the discs. Yes, it means there are some movies and old TV series I won't be able to see, but between Redbox, Netflix Streaming, Hulu+ and plain old cable TV

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:41 PM, PGage wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: >> >> We have a 2 disc plan and decided to keep the discs and stop steaming. >> I saved my queue page as I see that people who opted for streaming >> only already have lost their queues. I'll go wi

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, David Risner wrote: > > The more discs you are getting, the less of a price increase there > > seems to be. With 2 discs, the price change is about $5. It seems > > they are really trying to recover the ship

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, David Risner wrote: > The more discs you are getting, the less of a price increase there > seems to be.  With 2 discs, the price change is about $5.  It seems > they are really trying to recover the shipping costs from those people > who are just doing 1 disc at a

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The more discs you are getting, the less of a price increase there seems to be. With 2 discs, the price change is about $5. It seems they are really trying to recover the shipping costs from those people who are just doing 1 disc at a time along with streaming. -- David Risner Software Engineer

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I guess I'm lucky with the new prices since my plan is only going up about a dollar. I hope Netflix is giving a break to customers who have been members for a long time with relatively pricey plans. I've been a member since 1999 and had the plans ranging from 3 to 8 discs at different times. --

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:40 AM, PGage wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Wesley McGee wrote: > >> Since I've been buying those 3-month Netflix gift cards and using those to >> pay for the service, I learned that I will go to October 8th before the new >> pricing affects me (three month su

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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Wesley McGee wrote: > Since I've been buying those 3-month Netflix gift cards and using those to > pay for the service, I learned that I will go to October 8th before the new > pricing affects me (three month sub started July 8th). However, the question > is I stil

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Since I've been buying those 3-month Netflix gift cards and using those to pay for the service, I learned that I will go to October 8th before the new pricing affects me (three month sub started July 8th). However, the question is I still have one gift card left. What will happen when I try to rede

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We just recently signed up for the streaming +1 DVD +Blu-Ray (streaming to a PS3). Not thrilled about going from $12 to $18 / month but it may be worth it to us. Like others, will probably re-evaluate towards the end of the year. -- Tim -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received

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On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Joe Coughlin wrote: > I'm going the other direction. I'm going streaming only. I have the 1 disc > plan now and I've had Winter's Bone since the Oscars. I also have the movie. i had dropped netflix before they had streaming but a couple of months ago i thought i'd

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:10 PM, PGage wrote: > > On the face of it there is no basis for this headline - the change does not > seem to favor streaming any more than discs, as either basic plan costs the > same. But I think it is based on the assumption that most Netflix users (at > least, most o

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Joe Hass wrote: > It's interesting to note that WSJ's hed on this is "Netflix Plays Down > DVDs" when everything I've read says that Netflix is realizing that > their DVD service may not die as fast as everyone thinks it will and > is going to push it harder. > >

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I'm thinking of going the same way, streaming only. If I turn over my discs more often than every two months, it is a miracle. -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jason Carpio wrote: > I'm going to streaming only and use redb

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I'm going to streaming only and use redbox or on demand for new releases. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Joe Coughlin wrote: > I'm going the other direction. I'm going streaming only. I have the 1 disc > plan now and I've had Winter's Bone since the Oscars. I also have the movie. > > > On Wed,

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I'm going the other direction. I'm going streaming only. I have the 1 disc plan now and I've had Winter's Bone since the Oscars. I also have the movie. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Jon Delfin wrote: > Indeed. I just altered my plan to eliminate the streaming and stay > with DVDs only. My TV

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Indeed. I just altered my plan to eliminate the streaming and stay with DVDs only. My TV isn't online, and I'm not going to sit at my computer to watch long-form video. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Joe Hass wrote: > It's interesting to note that WSJ's hed on this is "Netflix Plays Down > DVDs

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It's interesting to note that WSJ's hed on this is "Netflix Plays Down DVDs" when everything I've read says that Netflix is realizing that their DVD service may not die as fast as everyone thinks it will and is going to push it harder. >From off-list commentators, the general tone on this is prett

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channel running in my office building's elevators was reporting this change as a decrease in streaming and DVD services. David From: PGage To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:53 PM, David Risner wrote: > As a 2-disc-a-month subscriber, my price goes up $5.50 or so to keep > unlimited streaming. > > Currently as a 2-disc-a-month subscriber, I'm allowed to stream two > shows at once on two different devices. This comes in very handy with > my

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12, 2011 at 9:25 AM, wrote: >>>> >>>> ...and still paying their monthly fee while they wait.  If I was a >>>> service provider, that'd be the sort of "problem" I'd be wishing for. >>>> >>>> Doug Fields >>>> T

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Mike Nelson of MST3k & RiffTrax fame has been posting on Twitter about the Netflix hike: The pain of 1000 drywall screws being driven into my heels & magnified by 80 billion is nothing compared to the pain Netlfix has caused. If you sewed together & reanimated the worst monsters of history, cover

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te: >> >>> ...and still paying their monthly fee while they wait. If I was a >>> service provider, that'd be the sort of "problem" I'd be wishing for. >>> >>> Doug Fields >>> Tampa, FL >>> >>> >>>

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I wonder what this does to those gift cards. I'm in one three-month card, and I have one that I haven't redeemed yet (and you can't redeem a gift card while using another one). I will probably play it by ear... This makes it harder for me to use Netflix as a impulse watch.. That said, I will pr

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I'm not saying it's a problem for Netflix. We just realized we were paying ten bucks a month (or whatever) for the privilege of having discs we weren't watching sit on a shelf. It didn't really seem cost effective for us, so we dropped the program. Believe me, I have enough books and DVDs that I've

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Jason Carpio wrote: > So who called this? > > http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-prices-2011-7 > Right - this is the other shoe dropping. In my initial post 2 days ago I had said that the service made financial sense in my house at $10/month, but probably

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n Carpio Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:29 AM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be True Well there is enough content on there to bide your time while you wait. I'm also one of those "power users" of netflix. Mostly streaming, in fa

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Jason Carpio wrote: > So who called this? > > http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-prices-2011-7 Note to the headline writer: "Netflix Totally Redoes Its Pricing" is incorrect if they keep the same $7.99/month cost for the streaming-only plan. Unless you are an '80s Valley girl. Like, ohmigod,

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g Fields >> Tampa, FL >> >> >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be True >> From: Jon Delfin >> Date: Tue, July 12, 2011 10:06 am >> To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com >> >> Not only one, cert

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it. If I was a service > provider, that'd be the sort of "problem" I'd be wishing for. > > Doug Fields > Tampa, FL > > > ---- Original Message > Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be True > From: Jon Delfin > Date: Tue,

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...and still paying their monthly fee while they wait.  If I was a service provider, that'd be the sort of "problem" I'd be wishing for.   Doug Fields Tampa, FL    Original Message Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be TrueFrom: Jon Delfin Date:

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Dave Sikula wrote: > The wife and I have tried Netflix a number of times, and each time > have gone down in flames. The best description I ever read of Netflix > was on either Salon or Slate. That going back was like getting > together with an old girlfriend: "-Th

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Not only one, certainly, but a finite number. And odds are, somebody somewhere is wanting it. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Lynch wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:37, Jon Delfin wrote: >> How is that a problem with Netflix? It might be a problem *for* Netflix > > Unless there's o

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:37, Jon Delfin wrote: > How is that a problem with Netflix? It might be a problem *for* Netflix Unless there's only one copy of a disc left in existence, how is somebody paying for a service that they never actually use ever bad for the service provider? -- David

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From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sikula Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:42 AM To: TVorNotTV Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be True The wife and I have tried Netflix a number of times, and each time have gone down in flames. The bes

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Dave Sikula wrote: > The wife and I have tried Netflix a number of times, and each time > have gone down in flames. The best description I ever read of Netflix > was on either Salon or Slate. That going back was like getting > together with an old girlfriend: "-Thi

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The wife and I have tried Netflix a number of times, and each time have gone down in flames. The best description I ever read of Netflix was on either Salon or Slate. That going back was like getting together with an old girlfriend: "-This- time I know how to handle her." There were just too many o

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Disney has that "For Rental Only" option as well. I saw it on the Tron Disc On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. wrote: > > > On Jul 11, 12:47 pm, Darren Glass wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David Bruggeman > wrote: > > > Discs with extras and subtitles is an advantage the r

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On Jul 11, 12:47 pm, Darren Glass wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David Bruggeman wrote: > > Discs with extras and subtitles is an advantage the red envelopes have over > > the red and blue boxes (which could stick around longer should offering > > games takes off). > > It seems like