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Post by yincrash »

donretag wrote: post #151
reustle wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could just make a voip call via any of the free options (ie Google hangouts)

With Hangouts and Skype, you had to buy at least $10 worth of credit. I used Skype to call home. Point is, their website should have worked for account issues. The interesting part is that you are able to sign up for services from overseas (that part worked), just not cancel them.

You had to buy credit to make hangouts calls to US numbers? As far as I know, calls to the US should be free via hangouts.

https://www.google.com/voice/b/0/rates?p=hangout

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Post by djloche »

worried_citizen wrote: post #183
fredliu wrote: post #170

Aws and Amazon Instant Video probably are very separate businesses. And right now, aws is obviously much more successful than Amazon Video. But is that enough reason for Netlfix to be not scared of being a full aws shop and not worrying the fact that their biggest - probably the only - competitor (Amazon Video) also shares the same parent company as Netflix's main tech provider (aws)?

Along the same line of questioning what's to stop Netflix from packing up bags and moving to GCE/Azure?

Cost. Switching would cost a ton of time and money, which is probably better spent in securing streaming rights for popular shows, creating their own shows, and marketing to increase their subscriber base.

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Post by unwiredben »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #213
shortstuffsushi wrote: post #162

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Unless they move to a model where you have to PPV for new / premium content like box office movies.

Here's an idea your comment made me think of: I wonder when are we going to see DLCs for movies? Imagine - you buy the base Force Awakens for $10, and then they offer you extra movie parts - $1 for one in which Chewbacca does something silly, $2 for one which features an additional 10-minutes-long scene of starships shooting at each other, etc.

They've been doing this for years with deluxe editions on DVD and Blu-ray, providing things like deleted scenes, extended versions, and commentary tracks. You can pay one fee (or get a rental) for a bare-bones experience or pay more for a better one.

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #123
konschubert wrote: post #59

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I am fine paying this much. Potentially. Maybe they could also sell subsets for a lower price?

You're most likely in the minority. Spotify and Hulu can barely get people to pay ~$10-12/month. Lots of content = its all worth a whole lot less to people.

How does that explain the cable industry?

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Post by jimbobimbo »

rconti wrote: post #56
LoSboccacc wrote: post #26

In europe we just get netflix lite, with old and uninteresting stuff sparkled with some original content and random rares. I hope someday we'll get this netflix you all talk about.

Netflix's catalog(ue) is a shadow of its former self. I'm a Netflix subscriber, and can pretty much guarantee that any movie I attempt to watch will NOT be available on Netflix streaming. I have somewhat better luck with the previous episodes of American TV shows.

Their real catalog is on discs, not online. Many great movies aren't online even years after release. I'm on 3-at-a-time sub, can't deplete my disc queue in years.

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Post by joe5150 »

rconti wrote: post #56
LoSboccacc wrote: post #26

In europe we just get netflix lite, with old and uninteresting stuff sparkled with some original content and random rares. I hope someday we'll get this netflix you all talk about.

Netflix's catalog(ue) is a shadow of its former self. I'm a Netflix subscriber, and can pretty much guarantee that any movie I attempt to watch will NOT be available on Netflix streaming. I have somewhat better luck with the previous episodes of American TV shows.

In my experience, on the other hand, I've found that Netflix has a pretty good selection of movies that I otherwise wouldn't have known I wanted to watch. So yes, if I expected to find tons of hit movies and classics, I'd be pretty disappointed most of the time, but I do feel I get my money's worth of a good selection of left-field films, and my list of favorite movies is a lot longer because of it.

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Post by icebraining »

donretag wrote: post #139

Now you can cancel your account worldwide! Previously, the Netflix website did not work at all from outside of their regions. Want to cancel online? You cannot. Call them? Only if you are willing to pay for a overseas call. No email support, nothing. I took these steps to cancel my account: 1) Open a Twitter account 2) Tweet about canceling my account 3) Send friend request (or whatever it is called) 4) Accept friend…

Seems to be fixed, just canceled my plan from the site in one click.

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Post by erikb »

Everybody talks mostly about the content. I started using Netflix (Germany + US), because of the technology. I don't want to move to my next apartment with thousands of discs, and when I want to watch something I don't want to search for days before i find the disc. Streaming is the way to go and at least in Europe Netflix is the only one who does it right. (Youtube of course as well, but youtube has no interesting movies/tv shows with licenses and high quality)

What I'm really missing is the option to pay for single premium movies like the newest Avengers movie like I could on Amazon or Google. I don't understand why they don't offer the content that may be too expensive to them for general access at least for extra pay.

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Post by aidenn0 »

ansible wrote: post #127
geoelectric wrote: post #88

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I don't approach Netflix as "I want to see this movie so I go here," so much as "I want to watch something, so I'll pick from here." I'm never lacking a choice to watch, even with fairly specific criteria in mind. If I know exactly what I want to watch (and don't get lucky enough to find it on Amazon/Netflix/Hulu) I pay for PPV. I don't expect magic for <$10/mo, especially when the going rate for a one-off viewing is…

I don't approach Netflix as "I want to see this movie so I go here," so much as "I want to watch something, so I'll pick from here." I'm never lacking a choice to watch, even with fairly specific criteria in mind. Yeah. My main beef with Netflix is that I'd like to just sort content based on the 5-star rating. I'll rarely want to watch something that is less than a 2.0. And I'll consider just about anything that is 4…

Have you seen http://instantwatcher.com/
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