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'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix
First time accepted submitter Xondak writes "The cult series 'Arrested Development' is being resurrected and brought exclusively to Netflix streaming subscribers. This marks the first time a major studio has produced first-run content for the streaming service and perhaps this will afford other opportunities for cancelled Fox series. Firefly, anyone?"
I'm allergic to giving money to corporations that sponsor bills like SOPA.
Well, thanks a bunch.
Love, The Rest Of The Not United States World.
It's a Unix system - I know this.
Gee ... there's just too many to choose from.
I closed my Netflix account during all the price-hike hoopla and really haven't missed it at all (started reading a lot more). So I guess I'll do what I do with TV shows (since we don't own a TV) and wait until they're out on DVD or streaming somewhere else for free online. I'm patient enough to do this with Futurama, so I can wait for more episodes of this awesomely twisted show.
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1) "Firefly" or "SGU" or whatever your sci-fi poison is can't and won't be retrieved this way - because it is too expensive and Netflix subscribers simply won't do all the lifting;
2) As someone already pointed out, Netflix and other streaming services which streams tv series are kinda useless in big picture, because they won't be allowed in the rest of the world due of syndication/greed/whatever is new reason for MAFIAA to restrict their product to be available for rest of us;
3) And I'm alergic to bulshit like SOPA too - so I see less and less initiative to play by the rules. If they think that threatening everyone like wannabe criminals, why I should try to change their mind? There is lot of other things to really worry about, like hunger, economical stagnation, or even existence of capitalism itself. I will try to get myself into more independent stuff and support them - as I already do using open source and free software for 11 years.
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This is what I hate about Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Google Music, and every other digital music vendor - limited selection. I can get show X or album Y on service 1, but not on service 2.
I want every CD, every DVD, and every TV show available to me digitally. That's what we all want. It's not like they aren't already sitting in some digital format somewhere.
I've long thought that digital media should be like the Internet, with individual Music Service Providers competing based on their interface, features, etc., and not on their catalog. In other words, all content available through everyone and that's not why you choose one over the other.
iTunes, Google Music, Netflix, etc. are simply recreations of the record company distribution monopoly. At least with record companies, there was one LP, 8-track, cassette, and CD standard. Today you can own a piece of media and not be able to play it on all your devices.
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I am a big fan of his magic shows and always using "The Final Countdown" as his theme song. Don't get me wrong, I know nothing about magic and I could do it better than him.
Amazon provides Arrested Development to prime members for free and others can rent/buy episodes or seasons.
Bring back Jericho and I will happily subvert all my principals.
But I'd like to see new episodes of Better Off Ted. They absolutely need all the original cast, too.
The scene with the lie detector test from one of their episodes was hilarious.
I wouldn't mind seeing Firefly, Dark Angle, and Terminator - The Sara Connor Chronicles get revived. I'm not sure why Breaking In disappeared. It looked like it had potential.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
And that's why you don't use a one-armed man to scare someone.
So how long before movies and mobile applications bought on iTunes Store will be DRM-free? Oh wait: the estate of Steve Jobs is the biggest shareholder of both Apple and Disney.
And all these older seasons shown on Amazon Prime are probably going to be spoiled by Netflix's advertisements for the new season.
Netfix surely could have gotten the content cheaper if it was non-exclusive. The price hike everyone was griping about isn't being spent (entirely) on bringing more content to Netflix subscribers. Part of it is being spent on keeping content away from subscribers of other content delivery services, i.e. exclusivity. You're happy to pay more to help Netflix shut out its competitors, right?
Note: I'm not arguing about whether or not Netfix is a good deal for the price. I'm arguing against exclusivity as a matter of principle -- it's an abuse of customers to make them pay more in order to make the market less competitive (which ultimately hurts consumers).
Farscape was better.
Of course, I already own both that and Firefly on DVD, so the whole streaming thing is moot for me.
As it is, I am not a fan of streaming media from the net. My ISP (Rogers) charges a not inconsiderable amount for a, in my opinion, pitiable bandwidth quota. Their overage charge is even worse. I would rather purchase the physical media and watch whenever I please, as often as I please.
Yeah, but they'll probably stream all the Firefly episodes out of order. That's what ruined it. (whine whine whine). God, those Firefly whiners just won't die, no matter how many bullets you put in them.
No Just You.
Never mind that rampant objectification, it's the fucking spelling of her name that really gets my goat.
HAND.
More people can them then streaming. But why not move the show to FX or some other channel?
and you can get less time by shoplifting movies and games from the store.
Is sounds like an insecticide they use on cockroaches that prevents them from reaching puberty and, therefore, unable to breed.
Can a 4-year-long series with established talent be considered "cult?"
The studios bankroll, they do not create. If the creative types jump ship to streamers, the traditional companies have nothing to offer. Damnatraiggt the should be scared.
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Apple doesn't want other distribution networks for applications on their mobile devices because they are worried about quality
"Quality" is nebulous. There are bad movies on the iTunes Store; why should apps be any different?
development practices that will limit future improvements
If by such "development practices" you mean use of private APIs, then have the executable loader fail if it detects the name of any such private API in the list of symbols that the executable imports.
and malware tarnishing the brand.
Malware can be dealt with by applying sandbox policies similar to those of OLPC Bitfrost to unapproved applications.
Sorry for bringing up the whole international thing, but we usually get these shows in Europe less than a year after they aired in the US (don't know exactly for comedy shows, but for things like Prison Break it was usually a few months). I wonder how this will play out for the Netflix content, I can only hope they allow others to show it after a while. Also, how hard is it to pirate a netflix stream?
I LOVE FIREFLY!
Arrested Development, I dont even watch
Firefly however, I'd even consider GETTING Netflix if it was the exclusive source of Firefly!!
for not sharing their DRM protocol. The short story is that they were obligated via contract with the record companies to prevent unauthorized breaking or cracking of their protocol (or to roll out fixes quickly in the case of breakage). All DRM security is based on some secrets; secrets they would have to divulge to the third parties for them to implement their protocol. Apple didn't feel like they could meet their contractual obligations if they let a dozen different vendors have access to those secrets.
A far better approach would be to drop DRM entirely (which is what they said at the time)--and that's exactly what Apple was eventually successful in convincing the record companies to do. Why would they have done that if they were so desperate to preserve the lockin from having proprietary DRM?
In case you haven't noticed, Apple isn't still doing pretty well with the music thing even though they've been DRM-free for several years now--that kinda shoots the whole 'lockin' argument down, doesn't it?
I want every CD, every DVD, and every TV show available to me digitally. That's what we all want.
In the early days of Bulletin Board Systems, operators of these services discovered a principle regarding the relationship between information (content) and clientele: Information has a negative supply/demand curve. With regular stuff, like cars and dental floss, the more there is, the smaller the demand. With information, the more you have, the more clients you will have. The principle holds up in websites today, as well. Do you think Slashdot would have as many readers if they only posted one story a day? If you are within walking distance of two book stores, you go to the bigger book store because they have a bigger selection. (The caveat to this is that the smaller book store may have a selection focus that aligns with your tastes.)
The same thing applies to media such as music, and video. The bigger the collection available to the customer, the more customers it will attract. That's why people get aerials instead of using bunny ears, subscribe to cable instead of using aerials. They are willing to buy more. That is why download sites exist. They have bigger collections than any brick and mortar store.
So why don't the media companies apply this principle? Why are they stuck with the mentality that scarceness brings bigger profits?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Anybody who wants to sell DRM'd media is welcome to do so using their own app
For one thing, this isn't true for the click-wheel iPods, which can't run apps except for a select few major-label games. For another, I seem to remember Apple wanting the 30% cut on the monthly subscription.
The advent of exclusive content on Netflix will be a major incentive for hackers to try to break their DRM. Until now, no one has really cared about it because anyone who wants the content in a freely usable format can get it easier by ripping the relevant DVD/Blu-Ray, or in the case of TV shows by using a hacked Tivo to capture the transport stream. Because of that, no one thought it was worth hacking Netflix DRM when all they would get is lower quality versions of what they could already get elsewhere. Things have now changed. I bet the first workable hack comes out less than a month after the first exclusive episode airs.
If iOS applications were DRM-free, someone could fork GNUstep to make a binary-compatible operating environment in the tradition of Wine. The reason such an environment hasn't been built in the three years that the App Store has been running is because of the DRM.
Can you describe technically why this would be the case, at all?
Because an placation bundle is NOT encrypted. The DRM is simply a signing file that allows the DEVICE to verify the application is from a trusted source. It is inert, and would do nothing whatsoever to stop someone from using a WINE like approach to write something that would run applications... it would have full access to the binaries and all resources in the application without any changes to the application bundle whatsoever.
What a WINE approach would have issues with is getting files from the app store to begin with... but once downloaded people can (and do!) do anything they want with them.
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Convoluted plot told at a snails pace. Not even Summer Glau made it watchable.
I wouldn't wish AD on my worst enemies either; that would truly be a waste of such a fantastic show.
Oh yeah, the guy in the $4000 suit is holding the elevator for the guy who doesn't make that in 3 months... COME ON!"
It ain't easy being white,
It ain't easy being brown,
All this pressure to be bright,
I got childrens all over town!
Seasons 1 and 2 were brilliant. Having not seen the show in the UK, I laughed a lot during these.
By half way through season 3, I understood why it had been cancelled. Man that was dire!
Arrested Development has been available streaming on Netflix for quite some time; I'd say at least 6 months.
The most over-rated under-rated show on televion.
please. Also V (not Fox) would be good.
If you don't like the choices Apple offers, Apple is not stopping you from choosing alternatives.
Yes it is. Google apple android lawsuit .
The one thing that is somewhat speculative is how much benefit iTunes is to Apple. Any here on Slashdot seem to think that Apple makes a killing. They are people who can't or won't read a balance sheet and can't multiply. According to the last quarterly Apple had revenue of $1.2B on iPod accessories, music, movies, apps, books and other content. While that seems a lot, that is before Apple gives their 70% cut to someone else. Apple only took in at most $400M in revenue. Remember that is revenue not profit. Apple then has to pay for the infrastructure like all the servers, bandwidth, credit card fees, etc. How much does infrastructure cost? I don't know but an infrastructure that serves up millions of songs, hundreds of thousands of apps and thousands of movies and books to hundreds of millions of users can't be cheap.
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Can you run any DOS game on Windows 7?
Yes, in the third-party emulator DOSBox or in the XP Mode virtual machine that comes with Windows 7 Pro. Taking Rosetta out of Lion is like shipping Windows with an included copy of DOSBox and then taking DOSBox out of the next Windows.