Re: Red
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, The Voice Of Objective Truth wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:47 PM, nicholas a. evans wrote: >> Is Netflix not also "disc by mail" in Canada? Or is its Canadian disc >> selection deficient? . . . > > In Canada Netflix is only streaming. Yeah, we didn't have Netflix *at all* until a couple months ago, when they introduced the streaming-only option about a month or two before they introduced it in the States. But there are still tons of films and TV shows that are streamable in the States and not in Canada. Not that I'm complaining, mind. I've already caught up on a number of films -- foreign, documentary, etc. -- and the service has been *really* useful for entertaining the kids and finding new programs for them that I'd never even known *existed* prior to getting Netflix (shows like Dinosaur Train, Kipper, Angelina Ballerina, WordWorld, etc.). > There are a few existing disc-by-mail services, but they don't do > streaming. I haven't looked in to any because I was unsure I'd make > enough use of the services to get my money's worth . . . Heh. The other day I got an e-mail from Videomatica.ca reminding me that I've been holding on to a couple discs so long that I might have saved money by just buying those discs in the first place. > I think key for me in the disc-by-mail will be selection and amount of > Blu-Ray -- any new release should be Blu-Ray. I find it's harder for me to get around to watching Blu-Ray discs, though, because I've only got the one player (the PS3) and it's usually being used by the wife or kids or someone. At least with DVDs I still have the option of watching the disc on my laptop, etc. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot