Comment Re:Mull the Pall in Sherpa Stations.. (Score 1) 542
Well, I don't know of any legal online movie viewing services that has CC included.
Comment Re:Multiple interpretations (Score 1) 542
You mean, $8-10 per month, not per disc you rent, for rentals from Netflix and BlockBuster, and with the way the queues work, if you find it sucks at the first disc, you can just remove the rest of the series from the queue right then, and move something else up in the queue to watch. Also with the watch it now for some of the stuff, you don't even need to wait for the discs to arrive in the mail.
If you were to spend the money you're wasting on bad DVD purchases on subscriptions to Netflix and BlockBuster, you'd end up saving money becuase you'd end up buying fewer bad shows.
Comment Re:Multiple interpretations (Score 5, Insightful) 542
As a result I feel it's necessary to "test drive" media before purchase. With CDs I can get legal samples online, but with TV shows on DVD there is no method except to download it and see if it's any good. It's illegal, but I do it because I don't want to get stuck wasting thousands of dollars on trash.
Other options.
- Netflix. They even happen to have Galactica 1980 on watch it now.
- Reading reviews online.
- Reading reviews in magazines.
- Netflix.
- Asking friends about shows.
- Hulu.
- Youtube (Ok, this one isn't fully legal)
- Blockbuster.
- All the other video rental stores.
- Did I mention Netflix?
I know not everything would be on all the options listed, so there's up to 8 other options, unless you don't have any friends, then there's only up to 7 options.
So don't say the only option you have is to download.
Submission + - End of VoIP in the US?
fermion writes: The register is reporting that Vonage can't work around Verizon's VoIP patents. Combined with the judges interpretation of the patents, this seems to indicate that competitive VoIP, at least i the US, is dead. I can see shades of the bad of days when AT&T rented phones at an exorbitant rate and invented a new charge every month.
The only hope appears to be that "According to Paul Derry, from patent experts Venner Shipley, most of Verizon's claims should only apply to companies with servers located in the US, even if services are being offered to US citizens." Perhaps Iceland is to become the server capital of the world.
The only hope appears to be that "According to Paul Derry, from patent experts Venner Shipley, most of Verizon's claims should only apply to companies with servers located in the US, even if services are being offered to US citizens." Perhaps Iceland is to become the server capital of the world.
