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Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« on: January 31, 2020, 09:43:01 AM »
Not that I already haven't griped about this 100 times, but...

For those old enough, remember when you got the Gander Mountain catalog in the mail? You found something you wanted. You filled out the order form in the catalog. You dropped the form and a check in the mail. You waited for GM to get them. You waited for the check to clear. You waited for the incredibly slow at the time UPS to deliver the package. Sometimes almost a month would go by from, "I want this!" to receiving it.

That's what Netflix DVD feels like now.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2020, 09:45:08 AM »
Netflix still does DVD's?
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2020, 09:48:53 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 31, 2020, 09:45:08 AM
Netflix still does DVD's?

They wouldn't have to if they didn't spend all their time making commie pinko SJW propaganda Netflix Originals. If they spent some of that time moving old films and shows from DVD to streaming, I wouldn't have to use DVDs for half my TV viewing.  =D
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2020, 09:52:39 AM »
Quote from: Ben on January 31, 2020, 09:48:53 AM
They wouldn't have to if they didn't spend all their time making commie pinko SJW propaganda Netflix Originals. If they spent some of that time moving old films and shows from DVD to streaming, I wouldn't have to use DVDs for half my TV viewing.  =D

Pretty sure you're a minority in their ranks of subscribers.

If you have a Roku, there is a ton of free channels with older movies/TV shows, for free (but you have to suffer through commercials, you know like before the days of cable TV and OTA TV was your only option).
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2020, 09:58:24 AM »
Yeah, I don't do commercials. It's bad enough that I have to pay 50 ducats a month for Youtube and still FF through commercials for stuff in my library, or if it's not in my library, actually pay to watch commercials.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2020, 10:03:14 AM »
I still get DVDs from Netflix myself.

But I really wish they HAD some older classics like Khartoum, Comrade X, and Call Me Bwana.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2020, 10:04:58 AM »
I still use their DVD service, there's way more in their DVD library than there is in their streaming especially when it comes to older shows and movies
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2020, 10:06:02 AM »
Quote from: HankB on January 31, 2020, 10:03:14 AM
I still get DVDs from Netflix myself.

But I really wish they HAD some older classics like Khartoum, Comrade X, and Call Me Bwana.

I have actually found some older stuff streaming on Amazon for $1.99 for SD viewing (which is all you need with the old stuff). Or you can even find them in Amazon's bargain basement DVD store for like five bucks a piece. I've acquired several old movies that way.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2020, 10:06:10 AM »
Do they have blue rays? I've never used their DVD service.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2020, 10:07:06 AM »
Quote from: brimic on January 31, 2020, 10:06:10 AM
Do they have blue rays? I've never used their DVD service.

Yup. I'm setup for BR with them.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2020, 10:08:12 AM »
Quote from: brimic on January 31, 2020, 10:06:10 AM
Do they have blue rays? I've never used their DVD service.

yep
When you subscribe you choose either DVD or BR. think BR may cost a little more.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2020, 10:39:53 AM »
Quote from: WLJ on January 31, 2020, 10:08:12 AM
yep
When you subscribe you choose either DVD or BR. think BR may cost a little more.

I wouldn't even consider a DVD. Even blue rays don't look quite as sharp as streaming.

My kids and I watched Aliens a few weeks back on a blue ray disc, I ended up spending $5, 10 minutes into the movie to rent it off Prime because the sound was so bad on the Blue ray.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2020, 10:48:02 AM »
Quote from: brimic on January 31, 2020, 10:39:53 AM
I wouldn't even consider a DVD. Even blue rays don't look quite as sharp as streaming.

My kids and I watched Aliens a few weeks back on a blue ray disc, I ended up spending $5, 10 minutes into the movie to rent it off Prime because the sound was so bad on the Blue ray.

Well, it depends on where you live. :)

For me, BR usually looks sharper than what I can get at the between 10-18MBPS I get out here in hillabilly country.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2020, 10:49:44 AM »
Blair Witch Project still looks like crap even if you try it in 4K, FYI.

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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2020, 10:53:00 AM »
I remember the Gander Mountain process... Still have a couple of things I bought via the old catalog...

As for Netflix and their separate DVD service... I finally said screw it and cancelled my Netflix when just about every damned thing I was interested in watching would have been via DVD.
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Re: Netflix Takes Me Back in Time
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2020, 10:54:28 AM »
Quote from: charby on January 31, 2020, 10:49:44 AM
Blair Witch Project still looks like crap even if you try it in 4K, FYI.

Pretty sure that's deliberate, as part of the "found footage" genre.

Incidentally, 28 Days Later was shot in standard definition.

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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2020, 10:56:10 AM »
Quote from: Ben on January 31, 2020, 09:43:01 AM
For those old enough, remember when you got the Gander Mountain catalog in the mail? You found something you wanted. You filled out the order form in the catalog. You dropped the form and a check in the mail. You waited for GM to get them. You waited for the check to clear. You waited for the incredibly slow at the time UPS to deliver the package. Sometimes almost a month would go by from, "I want this!" to receiving it.

As a teen I was always wrenching on vehicles and I ordered many of my parts the same way via Summit or JC Whitney. Fill out the form, acquire a postal money order, send it in, and then 3 weeks later the parts showed up.
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2020, 10:56:42 AM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on January 31, 2020, 10:54:28 AM
Pretty sure that's deliberate, as part of the "found footage" genre.

Incidentally, 28 Days Later was shot in standard definition.



that was a joke.
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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2020, 10:58:05 AM »
Quote from: charby on January 31, 2020, 10:56:42 AM
that was a joke.

I'll take your word for it.
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2020, 11:23:28 AM »
Quote from: Ben on January 31, 2020, 09:48:53 AM
They wouldn't have to if they didn't spend all their time making commie pinko SJW propaganda Netflix Originals.

I sometimes feel like Netflix has two different teams working for them.  Some of their stuff is pretty solid (Altered Carbon, The Witcher, Dark, Stranger Things, Dead to Me).  And some is just really not. (the aforementioned commie pinko SJW crap).

Has anyone watched the Netflix Dracula?  I've heard it's OK.
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« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2020, 11:28:29 AM »
Quote from: charby on January 31, 2020, 10:56:42 AM
that was a joke.

I got the joke right away.
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« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2020, 01:57:29 PM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 31, 2020, 11:23:28 AM
I sometimes feel like Netflix has two different teams working for them.  Some of their stuff is pretty solid (Altered Carbon, The Witcher, Dark, Stranger Things, Dead to Me).  And some is just really not. (the aforementioned commie pinko SJW crap).


Same. They seem to be able to make these awesome shows, but it's like one for every fifty SJW brainwashing shows.  I would have said a more realistic one in five, but I have actually sat down and scrolled through the Netflix Originals catalog, even sampling some of them. My God is there a lot of crap in there.
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« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2020, 02:30:27 PM »
Quote from: Ben on January 31, 2020, 01:57:29 PM
Same. They seem to be able to make these awesome shows, but it's like one for every fifty SJW brainwashing shows.  I would have said a more realistic one in five, but I have actually sat down and scrolled through the Netflix Originals catalog, even sampling some of them. My God is there a lot of crap in there.

I'm pretty sure Netflix doesn't make any shows, they buy them from production firms and stamp their N on them as their own.

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