Netflix Comes to Canada

Vampyr · 09-21-2010, 09:33 PM

You do know Netflix does streaming?

BreakABone · 09-21-2010, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

You do know Netflix does streaming?

I hoped he was being sarcastic, since I said that pretty much Netflix in Canada will ONLY be streaming at the moment. Not the physical discs.

Typhoid · 09-22-2010, 01:55 AM

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I hoped he was being sarcastic

Indeed.

But I still do think Shaw on Demand is better, and will quickly destroy Netflix in Canada, because it is accessible with the touch of a button on everyone's standard remote [So long as they are with Shaw].

What's next - McDonald's releasing some type of 'Whopper'?

Fox 6 · 09-22-2010, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Indeed.

But I still do think Shaw on Demand is better, and will quickly destroy Netflix in Canada, because it is accessible with the touch of a button on everyone's standard remote [So long as they are with Shaw].

What's next - McDonald's releasing some type of 'Whopper'?

Thats the thing, not everyone is with Shaw, and I think Netflix is cheaper too.

Typhoid · 09-22-2010, 02:31 AM

Aside from the fact I was initially kidding, I honestly haven't been to one house that doesn't have Shaw on Demand. Unless I was in that house for a short amount of time, or possibly because we were not watching TV at that house and I wasn't able to see if they did or didn't.

Let me rephrase; to my recollection, all of the houses I have been inside of and have watched a television in for a minimum of 1 hour had SoD.

If it's cheaper, power to it. Start a non-physical-movie-rental-price-war for all I care.

But seriously, everyone I'm aware of gets their TV through Shaw. If it's cheaper, yeah - I can see people going with Netflix while they're with Shaw. Hell, I'm even pretty sure Shaw being a huge majority is only a local thing, and people in the East, or middle of the country use Rogers or something - but if it's comparably priced to people who get their rentals through Shaw or Rogers, I don't see it doing that great with those two groups of TV-people.

BreakABone · 09-22-2010, 09:14 AM

So so anti-Netflix!

Anyhow, appears to be up, but couldn't tell you what's there since won't let me visit

http://netflix.ca/

8/month for unlimited streaming.

Out on PS3, Wii, PC and Mac.

Later this year for 360. Wonder if Canadians will have the Party Feature as well.

Vampyr · 09-22-2010, 09:54 AM

How does this Shaw on Demand work, anyway? Is it a la carte, as in you pay for each thing you want to stream? I mean, almost every cable and satellite company here has on demand as well, but it's at least 3 dollars for each thing you want to stream, and you only have it for 24 hours after you start watching it.

So that's only cheaper for the first two things you get on demand, and even then not really since you only get it for 24 hours.

I'm not really the fanboy type, but I am definitely a fanboy of Netflix. It's one of the best companies I've ever seen. Everything is reasonably priced, and they have the best customer service in the world. I remember once a while back their streaming service went down for a couple of hours one night, and they refunded all of their customers like 70 cents, or however much it equated to out of your subscription fee, whether you had actually tried to stream something then or not.

In addition there are other smaller perks - their recommendation algorithm is crazy good, they had some sort of contest with a million dollar prize to whoever could create the best algorithm for recommending movies that a person may like.