I have already started playing Portal 2 and liking it:) Thanks!
I especially like that Steve Merchant does the voice of that bot. I just found out on the train to work this morning that he is not dead after all so am happy:)
Oh and Special Agent Oso is a kids show. I felt I should include some kiddy offerings as our friends always harp on about how great Netflix is for kids stuff.
My list has a 33% pass rate on kids stuff, but in its defence, the other 66% was Disney channel which likely does not play anywhere other than Disney Channel.
It is, in all likelihood, Rogers & Bell that won't let Netflix show anything that people WANT to watch. For if they did that, they would lose customers (Me for one!).
Rogers and Bell are the fault of all bad things in Canadian online media:)
I didn't notice that you said David Lynch when I first replied. I did actually look up Eraserhead (it was a No), but decided to leave it off the list as it was too obscure lol.
OK, let me do some random searches of stuff I want to watch... (I PROMISE that these are as they come off my head, of stuff I am thinking of with no deliberately only looking for stuff they don't have)
Pulp Fiction: No Stargate SG1: Oooh they have it now! Stargate Atlantis: No Dr Who (new): No Top Gear(UK, New): YES!! House MD: No Lost: No (Not actually a bad thing) Total Recall: No Avatar: No Airplane: No (But they have Airplane2??) Shrek: No Star Wars: No Start Trek Series: No (But they do have three films, including the latest) Die Hard: No Inception: No Crank: No (But they have Crank 2) Family Guy: No Futurama: No Titanic: No (But, again, they have the sequel!. I don;t actually want to watch it anyway, I just thought of it is all) Friends: No (For wifey) Seinfeld: No Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: YES!!! Snatch: YES!!! Saw: Yes, but only 1 & 2 The IT Crowd: Yes! The Backyardigans: Yes Special Agent Oso: No Mickey Mouse: No Grays Anatomy: No Kill Bill: No Shaun of the dead: Yes:) Poltergeist: No
Etc, etc, etc. Need I go on?
8/32 - 25% success. Granted, this is a FAR better success rate than when I last looked (more like 5%), but it's still pretty piss poor:(
When it gets to over 50% such that most (i.e. over 50%:) ) of what I am looking for is there, then I will part with my money.
I wonder what the pass rate is for that list on the USA version. I don't have a US proxy so can't check. I bet it is much higher.
In their Canadian implementation, everything I have tried looking for(pretty much anything you would see on Rogers/Bell) has not been on there. I have not enabled my free trial yet because of this.
If they put actual content on, I would gladly give them my money.
I guess my point was along the lines of - talking to someone across the world was a big deal back when Ham got started, but now it's a negligible cost trivial thing to do.
But after you said it like that, I can see the appeal. Also it seems more interesting since I read about people sending packet data. The Hams won't be the ones in the dark when infrastructure breaks down. They don;t need no (communications) infrastructure.
Interesting, I may yet investigate getting into it one day, probably a while from now though. I will never truly dismiss it:)
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Don't be ridiculous! How can they make weapons grade Plutonium with them?
I have already started playing Portal 2 and liking it :) Thanks!
I especially like that Steve Merchant does the voice of that bot. I just found out on the train to work this morning that he is not dead after all so am happy :)
And they wonder why people download stuff illegally...
Oh look at that! And a bundle for $11.89. ONE WEEK after I got Portal.
Damn you!
Rude not to yeah? Is Portal 2 that much better?
Lots of you are missing the fact that I am talking about the Canadian offering on Netflix. Not the USA one. My bet is you are in the USA, right?
No I did not know that. Imagine if I had parted with my cash to find this out the hard way.
Looks I like I need to stick to sourcing it via alternative methods then.
BENTON!!!
You know what, it's fun being 'that guy' from XKCD :)
http://xkcd.com/606/
oooh I forgot to check Twelve Monkeys. Love that film. And Brazil! Ohhh it doesn't have Brazil :( Or Bladerunner :( Or the Matrix :(
It really seems like every time I WANT to see something, NetFlix cannot help.
Unfortunately I don't have enough spare time to watch new things I have not heard of based on the hunch of a computer :)
Oh and Special Agent Oso is a kids show. I felt I should include some kiddy offerings as our friends always harp on about how great Netflix is for kids stuff.
My list has a 33% pass rate on kids stuff, but in its defence, the other 66% was Disney channel which likely does not play anywhere other than Disney Channel.
Also, I always spell Grey's Anatomy wrong as I always think of a certain book that somewhat predates the TV series :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray's_Anatomy
I figured it was something like that :(
oops, yeah, what you said :)
Interesting that there are some things on the Canadian Netflix that are NOT on the US one. I had assumed that ours really was just a subset!
I can only assume you are looking at the US version of Netflix, where they have decent selections?
I was choosing between Portal or Portal 2. I think I am glad I went with Portal, especially given the $10 vs $30 price tag :)
Oh, is it a completely unrelated film? I just assumed it was a sequel lol.
Glad I finally got round to playing it last week now :)
Actually... That's not fair to Netflix.
It is, in all likelihood, Rogers & Bell that won't let Netflix show anything that people WANT to watch. For if they did that, they would lose customers (Me for one!).
Rogers and Bell are the fault of all bad things in Canadian online media :)
It's Netflix who are trolling us with their US based advertising yet no decent shows ;)
I didn't notice that you said David Lynch when I first replied. I did actually look up Eraserhead (it was a No), but decided to leave it off the list as it was too obscure lol.
OK, let me do some random searches of stuff I want to watch...
(I PROMISE that these are as they come off my head, of stuff I am thinking of with no deliberately only looking for stuff they don't have)
Pulp Fiction: No :)
Stargate SG1: Oooh they have it now!
Stargate Atlantis: No
Dr Who (new): No
Top Gear(UK, New): YES!!
House MD: No
Lost: No (Not actually a bad thing)
Total Recall: No
Avatar: No
Airplane: No (But they have Airplane2??)
Shrek: No
Star Wars: No
Start Trek Series: No (But they do have three films, including the latest)
Die Hard: No
Inception: No
Crank: No (But they have Crank 2)
Family Guy: No
Futurama: No
Titanic: No (But, again, they have the sequel!. I don;t actually want to watch it anyway, I just thought of it is all)
Friends: No (For wifey)
Seinfeld: No
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: YES!!!
Snatch: YES!!!
Saw: Yes, but only 1 & 2
The IT Crowd: Yes!
The Backyardigans: Yes
Special Agent Oso: No
Mickey Mouse: No
Grays Anatomy: No
Kill Bill: No
Shaun of the dead: Yes
Poltergeist: No
Etc, etc, etc. Need I go on?
8/32 - 25% success. :(
Granted, this is a FAR better success rate than when I last looked (more like 5%), but it's still pretty piss poor
When it gets to over 50% such that most (i.e. over 50% :) ) of what I am looking for is there, then I will part with my money.
I wonder what the pass rate is for that list on the USA version. I don't have a US proxy so can't check. I bet it is much higher.
I admit, it was more than three months ago that I last looked. /me checks....
In their Canadian implementation, everything I have tried looking for(pretty much anything you would see on Rogers/Bell) has not been on there. I have not enabled my free trial yet because of this.
If they put actual content on, I would gladly give them my money.
I guess my point was along the lines of - talking to someone across the world was a big deal back when Ham got started, but now it's a negligible cost trivial thing to do.
But after you said it like that, I can see the appeal. Also it seems more interesting since I read about people sending packet data. The Hams won't be the ones in the dark when infrastructure breaks down. They don;t need no (communications) infrastructure.
Interesting, I may yet investigate getting into it one day, probably a while from now though. I will never truly dismiss it :)