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Samstag:

--- Quote from: piecesof8 on February 01, 2011, 09:25:42 am ---My other reason for hanging onto physical media is quality: blu-rays look amazing on my 52" TV, but I wonder how much quality I'd have to exchange for the convenience of streaming?

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Netflix looks pretty damn good if you have decent bandwidth.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 01, 2011, 02:05:46 am ---
--- Quote from: jamesjones626 on January 31, 2011, 07:32:57 pm ---I dont see what the big deal is, I never watch the extras.

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I buy some movies more for the extras than the film itself. Rob Zombie's Halloween.....not a very good movie, but the 4 hour "making of" intrigued me enough to get it.

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Buying is not renting, right?

I stopped using optical media a long time ago.  I'm not a video quality whore by any means but I go so sick and tired of getting 70 minutes into a movie and have the disc turn up unreadable.  It happened probably 75% of the time with Netflix.  What a waste of time.

piecesof8:

--- Quote from: Samstag on February 01, 2011, 10:32:39 am ---Netflix looks pretty damn good if you have decent bandwidth.

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Oh, I gots bandwidth ("fiber to the home" from my local phone co)... Curious as to where you would rate it - DVD quality, better, worse?

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 01, 2011, 10:35:55 am ---so sick and tired of getting 70 minutes into a movie and have the disc turn up unreadable.  It happened probably 75% of the time with Netflix.  What a waste of time.

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Maybe your mailman doesn't like you...  I would say I get an unreadable disk 5% of the time, if that.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 01, 2011, 10:35:55 am ---I stopped using optical media a long time ago.  I'm not a video quality whore by any means but I go so sick and tired of getting 70 minutes into a movie and have the disc turn up unreadable.  It happened probably 75% of the time with Netflix.  What a waste of time.

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Wow.  I've been seeing something much closer to zero percent on my netflix rentals.  I think I've had one cracked disk and one that skipped a couple of times but was otherwise fully playable.  Everything else I've ever received from them has been flawless.


--- Quote from: piecesof8 on February 01, 2011, 10:45:41 am ---
--- Quote from: Samstag on February 01, 2011, 10:32:39 am ---Netflix looks pretty damn good if you have decent bandwidth.

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Oh, I gots bandwidth ("fiber to the home" from my local phone co)... Curious as to where you would rate it - DVD quality, better, worse?

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Close to DVD quality, or better for their HD content.  The HD stuff they have available usually looks better than the HD content I get from U-verse, despite the fact that U-verse also provides my internet feed.

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