Peerflix - A Netflix Alternative?
Interesting idea - Instead of renting DVDs from a corporation exchange the DVDs in your collection that you don’t watch anymore for DVDs that you want to see. A lot cheaper than either Netflix or Blockbuster.
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Netflix’s recent move to provide ‘unlimited’ online viewing would have been the coolest thing ever—if it weren’t a lie and a rip off.
That’s right. After you watch your 17 hours of seamless streaming movies, it starts crashing your browser for you. So some folks are not actually GETTING the unlimited hours; false advertisement.
Officially, they’re getting unlimited, technically however, Netflix actually takes measures to prevent it.
I have tracked this since the unlimited thing BEGAN.
Consistently, and every month, after 17 hrs of watching seamlessly… it won’t allow any more watching—it crashes browsers to actively prevent users from the promised ‘Unlimited’.
People should be outraged. Netflix was fine before this, after this, I can’t trust them anymore.
Comment by Dominick Malone — March 20, 2008 @ 5:30 am
another thing i can add is that there is no way you can tell if a movie will be sent from your local dist. or from another place, ie longer wait for receiving it. netflix has (they told me) limited new movies available and with their unlimited return policy, yes you are on a very long waiting list.
i can wait less time till after the new movies had its run at blockbuster and by the way, blockbuster has quite a few new movies to ren at each storet and there are lo hundreds of blockbuster stonres. yet netflix can’t get enough new movies …. really. and the people that have nothing but praises for netflix, well they are just movie zomies, they’ll take anything thrown they way.
Comment by J.lowe — July 14, 2008 @ 1:32 pm