Netflix is now in the UK

Glaucus said:
You'll never get a service as good as free, so it will never meet your idealistic requirements.
It cant offer more than current piracy. Streaming and files in had for free.
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It's not always about the cost though. When piracy has the better catalogue a legal alternative can't compete.
 
Trifid said:
It's not always about the cost though. When piracy has the better catalogue a legal alternative can't compete.
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It'll always have a better catalogue.

Films and tv content is produced by a huge number of people. Not all will agree.
Same as Steam does not have all pc games.

That is why people who come out with such comments are never going to pay. I don't see why they try to justify it and keep posting the same tiered reasoning. Just get on and do it. Do they need validation or something?
 
Glaucus said:
It'll always have a better catalogue.

Films and tv content is produced by a huge number of people. Not all will agree.
Same as Steam does not have all pc games.

That is why people who come out with such comments are never going to pay. I don't see why they try to justify it and keep posting the same tiered reasoning. Just get on and do it. Do they need validation or something?
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It seems you're the one whos trying to justify the cost you pay for something which has a worse service.

I explained why i dont use netflix in my above posts anymore, so you are defending it and justifying your own actions for doing so.

Yes you're right it's produced by a big media market, however the majority are greedy and dictate too much. Until we can all union media up into one agreeable bill/law whatever, then the service problem will always exist.

Comparing steam (which i use) to netflix isn't ideal, since netflix is pay per month, rolling contract streaming service and steam is a platform where you buy one off games.

You can compare netflix to onlive (game streaming) though, and onlive suffers from the same problem.
 
I don't need to justify it.

£6 for watching over 4 series of tv and about 15 films bargain.

Also adding to the thread.

You are the one looking for validation or going look how cool I am, not paying for stuff.

There is never going to be as service as equal as piracy. It's just not possible.
 
Glaucus said:
I don't need to justify it.

£6 for watching over 4 series of tv and about 15 films bargain.

Also adding to the thread.

You are the one looking for validation or going look how cool I am, not paying for stuff.

There is never going to be as service as equal as piracy. It's just not possible.
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"Look how cool i am?" What are you, still in the 1990s?

And "It's just not possible" shows how closed minded you're being.
 
Glaucus said:
no.

How can a service provide films and tv from every single producer in multiple formats for free. It's never going to happen. Its not possible.
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Lol, lord. I never said cost was an issue you fool. It's the service i have problems with.

I'm done speaking with you regarding this, your last post just showed how dumb you're being in this argument and it's pointless continuing a debate on it now. Ta
 
And you think you can get every single producer over many hundreads of companies to agree to same providers.
It simply isn't ever going to happen. You'll get 90% but you'll never ever get all content like you can with piracy. People can rip and upload anything. Not all producers around the world are going to agree. It really is as simple as that.
 
Glaucus said:
It'll always have a better catalogue.

Films and tv content is produced by a huge number of people. Not all will agree.
Same as Steam does not have all pc games.

That is why people who come out with such comments are never going to pay. I don't see why they try to justify it and keep posting the same tiered reasoning. Just get on and do it. Do they need validation or something?
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I can get more music through other means but I chose to pay £10 for Spotify premium because the gap is 'close enough'. I'll be willing to pay at least £25 a month for a similar film/UK & US TV service. I didn't watch one thing on Netflix during the trial period because it just didn't have the content.


Glaucus said:
And you think you can get every single producer over many hundreads of companies to agree to same providers.
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Why is it so much more complicated from Sky/Virgin Media? Each TV station doesn't launch it's own broadcasting equipment?
 
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Trifid said:
I can get more music through other means but I chose to pay £10 for Spotify premium because the gap is 'close enough'. I'll be willing to pay at least £25 a month for a similar film/UK & US TV service. I didn't watch one thing on Netflix during the trial period because it just didn't have the content.
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Right, those thousands of titles available on Instant Watcher do not count as content...

Why is it so much more complicated from Sky/Virgin Media? Each TV station doesn't launch it's own broadcasting equipment?
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They hardly have anything compared to Netflix.
 
Colasanto said:
Torrents are even better value you for money and I have full access to anything, I can even stream now instead of downloading, therefore its a better service using the new P2P streaming service.

Until dictators in hollywood wake up and smell the coffee that it's service people are after, they won't get a penny out of me. I tried the netflix trial but it just isn't good enough compared to a torrenting service.

And those with faster connections will use newsgroups, however i'm not sure if you can stream via those?
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You are so ignorant. For 5.99 what more do you want?
 
Just tried this Netflix tonight. It works very well infact I was amazed considering I have a crappy 1mb adsl. That is until 10.20pm when it had to load up Inbetweeners for the 3rd time during an episode.
 
MooMoo444 said:
What sort of Star Treks can you get on here?

The Trekkie in me wanted to relive some old eps and films :p
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Just did a search on the US netflix and got TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and the 1973 animated series.

Also got 'Roast of William Shatner: Uncensored' & 'The Captains: A Film by William Shatner'.
 
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