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Just this morning on Bloomberg (I know I need a life) they talked about Netflix is in the toilet.
But hey, your post was about a discussion and that is what a community is all about. So here's to you!
Even though I wasn't surprised most people don't have the luxury of wasting their life in front of a TV watching CNBC and Bloomberg.
04-24-12 02:32 PMLike 0 - Couldn't care less about netflix, no wonder they are skint - payed me �15 to sign up and try the service for a minimum of 5hrs over the space of a month.
Well the trial went like this, some older movies I'd missed so I watched those, the rest was back to back sponge bob and Dora the explorer for my little one. I then cancelled before the end on the trail month.
So if netflix are up the creek without a paddle its their own fault for giving money away.Last edited by codiak; 04-24-12 at 03:54 PM.
04-24-12 03:37 PMLike 0 - Yep. Thanks OP for the post, but dropped them long ago and won't look back. There current problems attribute directly to customer service and sustainability, which they don't have with the new old content that they put up. To many sites out there that are free with the same content and legal I might add. Dd hbo go, showtime and crackle and I ask why anyone still subscribes to netflix?Chrisy likes this.04-24-12 04:18 PMLike 1
- I just cancelled my NetFlix sub. Just don't use it enough to justify the cost and the PlayBook thing was the last straw. We have too many options for entertainment anyway. I might divert the funds to adding HBO.04-24-12 05:04 PMLike 0
- These subscribers are far more likely to simply give up and use Netflix on their PC or gaming system than cancel their subscription.04-24-12 05:25 PMLike 0
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- Having read a lot of Netflix threads over the last 5 mos and the current tone on the forum. I wonder if there are really any of us left who really want Netflix?llllBULLSEYE likes this.04-24-12 06:13 PMLike 1
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Also not to mention Tablet tv, crackle, HBOGO and MAXGO can all stream on the PB.04-24-12 06:22 PMLike 0 - Unfortunately for us who don't work inside US borders all the time, we can't stream a single bit from Amazon ... hope they open up more areas soon....04-24-12 06:27 PMLike 0
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- Depending on where you are in the world you should be able find free legal sites. Start with your cable provider channel Web addresses and go from there. Check your local moving expenses channels. Web pages and see what's offered. I'm sure you will find a good number of sites. That's how I found the ones I bookmark. Just takes a little work. Maybe one of the forum masters will post a sticky and we can all contribute to the PB friendly site's.04-24-12 08:56 PMLike 0
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While it may seem that they are ignoring PB and rushing out to provide apps for every new Hemroid device, this is because it is just a matter of tweaks. They all have the requisite libraries (or can be hacked to have them) and Netflix already has the dev teams. Unfortunately the PB does not have the libraries required natively or in the Android player. xsacha has commented on the missing libraries more than once and in tearing down the apk files it become clear pretty fast.
PlayOn is a good workaround and I know there are some looking into ways to make work better for this purpose. I plan on taking the plunge myself. Unfortunately it eats a good bit of bandwidth.
I am now thinking though that maybe it wouldn't hurt to check with RIM (Alec maybe?) on what it would take to have the missing libraries added to the Android player.
I know this still doesn't explain how the 3DS got it, but who knows what arrangements were made there.04-25-12 09:27 AMLike 0 - Well they lost me as of today, so the theory that they won't lose existing customers by not supporting the Playbook isn't 100% correct. I actually canceled at the beginning of the month but was paid through yesterday. I decided when I saw the twitter post that I would look elsewhere. I may look into Amazon Prime or another service. When they doubled the price for DVD+Streaming I went back to streaming only, and wasn't using the streaming enough to justify keeping it, especially since I'd like to use the Playbook for trips for it. If you are a Playbook owner and this bothers you too, stop your subscription. Loss of subscribers/money talks.
To Netflix: Release a Playbook app and you'll get $8 a month from me again. You could probably get RIM to develop it for you and fix bugs and it would cost you a small amount at that point.04-25-12 02:17 PMLike 0 - Depending on where you are in the world you should be able find free legal sites. Start with your cable provider channel Web addresses and go from there. Check your local moving expenses channels. Web pages and see what's offered. I'm sure you will find a good number of sites. That's how I found the ones I bookmark. Just takes a little work. Maybe one of the forum masters will post a sticky and we can all contribute to the PB friendly site's.
So our options are really Netflix... or torrents.Last edited by torndownunit; 04-25-12 at 02:36 PM.
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