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pcernie
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Amnesia10
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They are not interested in providing content that suits the customer. So the customer is finding workarounds. I would expect Downton Abbey to be in the list as Americans are crazy for that show right now. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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jonbwfc
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Most of the customers aren't interested in paying anything for the content in question so the industry has no incentive to do so.
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Amnesia10
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Then how do you account for services like Netflix, lovefilm Hulu etc? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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jonbwfc
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How big do you think their membership are compared to the number of people who download stuff from usenet & torrents?
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pcernie
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Isn't the majority bandwidth at peak time in the States down to Netflix? Allegedly? That would take some doing, 'HD' or not   _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonlumb
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jonbwfc
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Not really relevant any more since it came out on DVD & Bluray ages ago.
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ProfessorF
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But as an illustration of the industry's short comings... it's pretty good.
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jonbwfc
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Well not really, since nowadays it would skip from the second to the last frame and all the stuff in between wouldn't happen.
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ProfessorF
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Nowadays? You make it sound like torrenting TV shows is a new thing. Top Gear was the most pirated show for years.
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jonbwfc
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No, nowadays our friend goes to netflix, it says "Ok then' and he can stream it straight away, or at worst get the DVD/BluRay through the post tomorrow. OK, maybe not in the particular case that today is Christmas day tomorrow but usually. The whole thing about how difficult it is to get stuff through legal sources doesn't apply when the thing you're after is something that's been out a while. Although I do notice it doesn't appear to be on the UK iTunes store yet but then why the hell would you ever buy video from there anyway. We do still have the whole 'it comes out on DVD three months after it's been in the cinema and you can d/l a bootleg in the meantime' thing but that's a slightly different argument.
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ProfessorF
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Are shows getting to NetFlix that quickly then?
Take something like series 5 of Fringe. Is that on NetFlix in the UK yet?
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jonbwfc
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I couldn't honestly say, I dumped my netflix membership as I wasn't using it much and you can't search their database unless you're a member. Some stuff used to be on there before it came out on DVD but generally it showed up on Netflix when it was available to buy in the shops.
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