The Glade 4.0

Average decent-quality movie size: 2.5 GB
My average download speed: 3.1 MB/s
Time it takes to download and enjoy movie: 13 minutes

The only thing that can beat BT or any other P2P sharing is instant streaming. Oh, hey, uTorrent supports streaming uncompleted video files now!

If movie studios tapped into bittorrent they could make a killing. Just charge one cent per Megabyte.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

This nonsensical technobabble. It's not feasible. (1) They can't "tap into bittorrent." I'm not getting my content from them, they cannot bill me for it. They can't even findout I'm getting it. (2) If they did provide a direct download service (based on data transfer amounts or not), Bittorrent wouldn't be the way to go. Bittorrent is a scalable network where virtually nobody gets their data from the original seeder after the first few downloads are complete. The whole point of Bittorrent distribution is that the other peers share the files, and the original uploader/seeder does almost nothing after the first download or two. The more people who start downloading the file, the faster the network gets. The provider wouldn't be uploading much at all, so they wouldn't have anything to bill anybody after the first few downloads. And nobody would download at 1 cent per megabyte...that's $25 for a 2.5 GB movie. They'd get their content elsewhere.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I am unwilling to go with illicit means of movie acquisition. I enjoy collecting what I do.

We just switched to DirecTV, we have the streaming only netflix, Amazon Prime. I use VizAnime and I am starting to use the free Hulu... If that does not cover me I will drive to the local redbox or blockbuster

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Since I got a nice bonus from work I treated myself to a 46 in. TV for my room. I'm watching Netflix on it right now, it's pretty cool.

Negativity like this is why you're being branded as a filthy pirate whore.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

This^^ Even Red Box @ 2 a rental would break the bank when compared to the number of series and movies I stream and have out (unlimited DVD aka 3x time).

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http://allthingsd.com/20111010/qwikster ... re-launch/

Netflix reversed their decision!

Yup, I just got their official e-mail. So idiotic to make these huge sweeping changes and then be surprised when people hate that it's going to be more of a pain in the *** to use your service. I think Netflix has lost a lot of street cred with this kind of crap.

Awww. I wonder if my brother already got his Qwikster shirt.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I want a Qwikster shirt now! I didn't know they made them.

My brother works for Netflix, in the part that would've been spun off.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Cool, when do we get our shirts? :p

You probably don't really want them. Apparently, all that happens when you wear them around outside the house/work is get asked "Can I get a free account?"

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

That actually sounds like more fun than people running up asking for help with their mobile phone when they find out you work for their provider! ~

I was hoping this would be so unpopular that they threw in free Blu-Ray service with Qwikster

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I was hoping for the same thing.

Is it my imagination or have they throttled DVD mailings?

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It's certainly taking them a while this morning to ship my new one, but remember, there was a holiday Monday, so they may be backed up.

It feels like they've been a lot slower in shipping since August.

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That's probably due to their depression of making all those horrible decisions. They probably just have a "curl up in a ball" half hour in the mornings and again in the afternoon, if they have any perspective.

I just got a notification that my last DVD was received. I dropped it in the mailbox on Sunday. Generally when I do this, they flag it as 'received' on Monday, when it's scanned in at the post office. Occasionally Tuesday morning. It's not normally this long a wait.

Additionally, when I get that email that my disc has been received, my next disc has already been moved out of the queue and into the 'shipped' area. It was still in the queue when I checked just a bit ago.

Right, there was no mail service on Monday, so it didn't ship until yesterday and they got it this morning. (same as mine). Checked just now, it has moved from the queue to the "shipping today" area. So unless they don't ship it today, it's moving same speed as it has been.

Ah, that's right. I never remember Columbus Day.

Yeah, nobody does. (Except the Native American Indians, right? Am I right? Here all week, etc)