We recently signed up for the free Netflix trial, and have lots of positive things to say about the experience. I don't understand why the distributors persist in removing extra DVD material from discs slotted for rental use. It seems rather silly. Sure, you might convince the most ardent fans to buy the disc, but I don't know a lot of people who would buy something strictly for the extras, barring a very very small number of rabid fans for a particular genre (say, the Lord of the Rings DVDs [where the extras were longer than the films themselves] or Star Wars or similar). I will report that it is very unpredictable which discs you get will have extras, and which will not. We watched "The King's Speech" recently, and that disc contained all the extras you might want. Harry Potter 7.1 had zero extras. "E.T." was chock full of extras, including stuff that was done around the rerelease of the film sometime in the 1990s. The turnaround time on the discs is incredibly fast. The mailers are ingenious little devices, very easy and convenient to use. The streaming is great, especially for those of us with kids who are off for the summer and looking for new fun things to watch (I'll take "Ponyo" over the Disney Channel's current lineup any freakin' day of the week). It will be interesting to see if they have to significantly jack up the price soon. For someone who needs a babysitter to go see a non-kid movie, even jacking up the price to $19.95 per month would seem reasonable to me. Crossing the $20 threshold might make things difficult for them, though. That becomes more difficult to justify on the monthly budget. From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jason 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 fact that's what my plan is. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:25 AM, <d...@flids.net> 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 Tampa, FL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be True From: Jon Delfin <jondel...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, July 12, 2011 10:06 am To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com
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 <djly...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:37, Jon Delfin <jondel...@gmail.com> 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 J. Lynch > djly...@gmail.com > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- Jason Carpio jcar...@gmail.com Twitter: wolvie75 Not sent from an iPhone -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
