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Oh, yeah. It's not like there aren't half a dozen programs that will grab schedules and listings for you and even program a pcdvr.
I tried http://www.canistream.it/ but it's pretty unreliable. Do you have a better suggestion?
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Oh, yeah. It's not like there aren't half a dozen programs that will grab schedules and listings for you and even program a pcdvr.
I tried http://www.canistream.it/ but it's pretty unreliable. Do you have a better suggestion?
PVR software (there are more): http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ http://www.chris-tv.com/index.html
Schedules Direct has a list of packages that work with their service:
I feel so sad for people forced to use the legal distribution channels - it must be such a chore to have to be informed which movie or series is available on which channel, have to switch between different apps / recommendation engines and have pay to every single middle men his toll, when their part could very well be free. Using pirate solutions seems such a great experience in comparison - a global free peer to pe…
I agree completely. I also always laugh at those suckers standing in line at the grocery store. The customer experience of just picking out my Mountain Dew and ice cream sandwich and just walking straight out of the store without paying -- it's cheap, it's easy. You don't have to deal with pesky middle-men trying to take their cut. Astonishing. Such comfort.
Usually when one deals with black markets you get much worse user experience, where there is no guarantee of quality, no economy of scale effects, no standardisation. Everything is less pleasant, but you get to have your stuff cheaper than buying it officially.
The paradox here is you get a bad user experience AND you pay for it. That's what I find appalling. Almost nobody who holds the contracts for these movies comes from "what value can we bring to the customer" point of view (well maybe with the exception of Netflix). Everybody does the "how much we can fleece the poor stupid people" approach, and it shows.
Pirate solutions tend to compete on user experience ONLY, and there you can get a real honest competition.
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I agree completely. I also always laugh at those suckers standing in line at the grocery store. The customer experience of just picking out my Mountain Dew and ice cream sandwich and just walking straight out of the store without paying -- it's cheap, it's easy. You don't have to deal with pesky middle-men trying to take their cut. Astonishing. Such comfort.
The trouble is that currently there is no reasonable amount of money you can give to receive such a nice and user friendly experience as what you get with torrent sites (even more so with the popcorn app). Usually when one deals with black markets you get much worse user experience, where there is no guarantee of quality, no economy of scale effects, no standardisation. Everything is less pleasant, but you get to hav…
Granted there are tools to automate it but from a purely UX pov the paid services do have a better experience.
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Complain to content creators, not Netflix.
Huh? if anything it's the distributors and considering that were discussing this in a thread about how Netflix decided to dump a huge movie library how is this even relevant? I understand why Netflix is doing this as a company, they are no longer the biggest baddest player around and with more competition they have harder times scoring good deals with license holders and they see original content as a central part of…
In the end, content owners get the final say in whether their content appears on Netflix or not. They either say no because they don't like Netflix, they say no because they got a better deal elsewhere, or Netflix says no because the terms are not financially viable. Which is one reason for Netflix to "dump" a huge movie library, which they have before. When I first signed up they had a deal with Starz that eventually went away.
So, if you don't like certain content not being available on Netflix or that certain content was taken away; then most likely your complaint should be aimed at the content owners.
Although, there are examples of content that Netflix doesn't actively pursue but I'm speaking of strictly mainstream entertainment.
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Let them complain, it doesn't change the fact their stupid business model is costing them money. I say let the stupid complain as they go out of business.
Here's the problem: I would like to get these videos, and they would like to sell them to me. They're just doing such a bad job that we are both unhappy. I'd love for them to be doing a better job.
Granted, you don't have the item you desire but I think in most cases an alternative can be obtained.
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In your example, the grocery store will do inventory and discovery they are short 1 ice cream sandwich and 1 mountain dew. They write the cost of those goods off as shrinkage/stolen goods. What exactly is warner bros missing at the end of the month when they do inventory? What item comes up 1 short when they go to grab it, because 1 person downloaded a copy? What do they write off on the balance sheet as shrinkage? T…
> They may have commonalities, but they are separate and distinct. Yeah, that's how comparisons work. Read my comment again in light of the commonalities, not the differences. seer: "It's so much easier if you break the law." chasing: "Everything's so much easier if you break the law!" I was commenting on seer's statement by extending what I considered to be flawed logic into a situation that would expose the flaw. I…