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ChadTower:

I'm still waiting for DSL or FIOS to be available.  That sort of access in my home is a pipe dream.

RayB:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 02, 2011, 11:58:39 am ---That sort of access in my home is a pipe dream.

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Tubes dream.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 01, 2011, 10:55:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Samstag on February 01, 2011, 10:48:39 am ---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.

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That was 3-4 years ago now.  It's not like you can tell by looking that a disc is going to fail towards the end of the movie.  Not like my DVD player was crappy, either as it was consistent across 3 of them and a couple PCs.  That's why I got into XBMC and started streaming everything.  It's a little more upfront effort but LAN streaming just works once set up.

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My rate of bad Netflix discs was probably more like 5-7%.  But maaaaaaan . . . when you're an hour and a half into a movie and then suddenly . . . screetch . . . unreadable.  It just ---smurfing--- erases the other 93% of just-fine discs.  And it feels like it's happening like every other time.  That also factored into my use of XBMC.  Though I was already using it, I made it a policy that I would never watch a Netflix disc in the player.  If it failed during the ripping process I'd just tell Netflix to send another copy and I'd pop the bad disc in the mail, no harm done.  It was watching a good portion of the movie only to have the movie suddenly and unexpectedly cut off that just made my blood boil. 

Still love Netflix, though.  Don't get me wrong.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on February 03, 2011, 01:53:35 am --- It was watching a good portion of the movie only to have the movie suddenly and unexpectedly cut off that just made my blood boil. 

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Exactly.   I don't keep a library of movies around so it's not worth going to all the effort of ripping a disc just to watch it once.  I only watch a couple a month and often it takes more than one sitting.  I don't keep the TV on in the background while doing other things.    I rarely watch a movie more than once.

BTW, tried Redbox recently.  First disc I got we set up the cart to watch outdoors on the big screen.  45 minutes into the movie, bam, unplayable.   :banghead:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 03, 2011, 08:08:56 am ---
it's not worth going to all the effort of ripping a disc just to watch it once. 


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I've got a pretty fast computer.  Ripping a movie only takes about 10 minutes.  And the effort of ripping only takes about 30 seconds on my part.  I can just delete it if it was crap.

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