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Same here.
I prefer Netflix $7.99 over $60/moth or so for cable.
You're joking, right?
If it's worth keeping for Battlestar Galactica, then why do you think you won't find something else it's worthwhile for?
End it now, or stop quibbling.
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Same here.
I prefer Netflix $7.99 over $60/moth or so for cable.
If you think you know, enlighten us.
As soon as I finish watching this really ing awesome show that has 12 seasons at 10 shows per, I'm going to quit this . I'm on show one season one. This is ing ridiculous!
That sounds pretty cool. What show?
I restarted my BB.com subscription a recently just to utilize their free month return trial as I'm building a movie library for the kids, so extra free access for a month can't hurt, right? Only a couple of weeks in and I'm quickly reminded exactly why I left them to begin with... their shipping times are horrendous. Even in returning the movies straight to BB, the fastest you can get movies in and out is a 6 day cycle while you can go 3 days THROUGH THE MAIL with netflix. As soon as BB.com started throttling a few years ago, I was out (same with gameznflix before that).
That said, because of the trial I went into the only BB brick store around me that survived and anything more than a couple of months old is only $0.50 or $1 for a 1 night rental... that is pretty cool (at least for building up the collection of older stuff, etc). Game rentals are still too expensive (~$10/week I think).
They've got a lot of deals going on right now. One is a $14 per month deal where you get unlimited exchange of movies. But only 1 at a time.
It includes games and there are no late fees.
Also, they now only charge 99 cents per day for games. So you're not stuck having to pay the $8 bucks for 5 days. Or whatever it was.
Yeah. And the first month just to try that pass is only 8 bucks. The NEW games are actually 1.99/day, which can add up, and which is what makes the pass a money-saver, assuming one plays games/watches movies enough during the month.
So, yeah, I work at the 'Buster in north D/FW.
Anyways, the online wasn't ever THAT streamlined. It tends to take a little longer and the selection can be, at times, limited or involve a "long wait." I think what they're hoping is that w/ the unlimited in store exchanges for the mailers, that customers don't get too upset at their lack of timely returns. It somewhat makes sense in theory, but I can certainly understand the frustration.
I gave up my cable with time warner recently. I was paying about 140$ a month with the bundle package(phone,internet,cable) I just have internet now for about 40$ and I got netflix. I don't miss cable yet and netflix has kept me entertained. I won't miss cable till the spurs games and the walking dead start coming on again.
I think he was kidding.
Honestly, I've been trying to bring myself to doing the same, but Breaking Bad still has 2 eps left, Vampire Diaries just started back (not even ashamed to admit that I ing love that show), and 30 Rock'll be back in a few weeks.
Not to mention college and pro football just started back. Neither was ever as appealing to me as it is now, now that NOT having them each Sat/Sun is a possibility.
The only reason I keep U200 on Uverse is for NFL red zone.
I don't watch much tv the last show I kinda liked before walking dead was probably house. But Breaking bad...wow. It was streaming on netflix(first three seasons) and I gave it a shot. I watched the first season in a couple days I couldn't turn off the ps3 I was hooked.
I might slow it down a bit cause I might itch for it after i'm done like jesse and the pipe
Au contraire for the streamlining, once upon a time it was incredibly streamlined (maybe as early as late 07, then all throughout 08). First, they shipped on Saturdays (don't anymore). Say you received a movie on Monday, you could drop it off in the drop box at the store Tuesday morning (on the way to work) and as long as it was scanned in before noon, they'd ship the next movie out the same day and you'd receive it Wednesday. Wash, rinse, repeat. 3 movies per week per disc checked out. If you REALLY wanted to be aggressive using the total access if just ripping movies, you could get a movie in the mail, rip it, exchange in-store the same day, rip it, then return the in-store by the next morning and double your throughput.
I think it was near late 08 that they began throttling the subscriptions. I know it was discussed on here a bit... movies needed to be checked in by noon the previous day to ship the next day. Then they sat on the movies for a day to slow down shipping from next day to 2 day. Anyways, they started playing games... eventually admitted it somewhere (some report to investors if I remember correctly) and so I gave up. I thought maybe they'd reverted back to the old style in trying to compete with netflix now, but it doesn't appear so.
True on the deals, but the catch is franchise vs corporate. Everything changes depending on which the store is. The one by my house is franchise and really doesn't play by corporates rules at all. I was interested in the $5/mo unlimited family/kids movies to rip through for a month to build up our collection, but they'd never even heard of it, let alone had it. So the various deals for games, movies, etc... they're all different depending on the store now - so for video games for us, we are stuck at the ~$10/week.
Speaking of games, I personally have not tried to use the video game portion of BB online but from what I've seen with coworkers, the games are all old, super crappy and are impossible to get. Coworker had 15 games in his queue, most crappy kids games that were available, and he sat for 3 weeks once without anything shipped. They always told him nothing was available and his queue wasn't deep enough - apparently 15 games (probably 12-13 shown as available) wasn't good enough. Anyway, if I had time to play games now, I might take a crack at it since I'm so far behind in games, the old catalog might not bother me, but I simply don't have time. As soon as my free trial runs out, I'm out of there.
Honest question... you can't have the plan below (was U100, is it still?) and just have the add-on HD package for $5/month?
Cuz its an awesome show with themes i appreciate. Its one of the few really good shows i missed out on that i would like. There are like five seasons and episodes are an hour so it takes forever to finish. Other than that i haven't seen one whole shows i woulda enjoyed except Spartacus and they removed it. Do you know of any other show that has Lucy Lawless full frontal on instant?
Sports are the absolute only reason I keep cable.
5 or 6 years ago, they had a deal that was $15-$17 (I think) per month and you had unlimited movie rentals and could keep 3 out at a time. For my family, this was pretty ideal. Wish they would go back to that.
I didn't realzie that. I was telling a buddy about it but he swore they didn't have it as his local store.
BTW, Thor sucks.
Same here. I don't know if it's a recent change or if I just missed it before but they've been showing a ton of good soccer matches on a couple of channels.
It's not part of the sports package, and only shows up on the u200 plan and up. I have never seen anywhere to purchase it a la carte on the site either.
I just have one movie (or two? don't remember) through mail, one through the nearest store. I'm assuming ours is corporate because they had several specials available.
I can exchange as many movies/games as I like (1 at a time), including new movies, in the actual store. This is the main reason I bought it, personally, and I have yet to try the mail order process yet.
The Walking Dead series is good, but the comic is 100X better.
Was just wondering... I was thinking that it technically is part of the HD premium tier (with palladia, MGM movies or whatever, etc...) and that as long as your paid the $5 and had the $10 HD access, that you could get it... but I wasn't sure if there was a U200 minimum to get access to the tier. I've never had the tier but will likely sign up this weekend to get access just to Red Zone, though I've always wanted Palladia back but it was never worth the $5 to me for only that.
One of our old corporate BB's used to have that before they closed down... I was all about trying to figure out the cheapest/most efficient way to get as many movies as possible then and you could always use a combination of their different plans to work the system. Sounds like some of them do similar things... I'll just stick with the $0.50 rentals for now and get what I need/want that way, then use redbox for $1.20 newer stuff (once my netflix and bb accounts run out)
I've been meaning to do the same, just haven't yet. I have 5 cells phones on my account, never use the LL. Hardly ever watch cable any more.
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