G13+purple haze crossbreed+Das Boot=happiness. That is all. EP is a ridiculous moron.......to keep it red room.
They split the unlimited dvd rentals and unlimited streaming and charge 7.99/month each or 15.99/month for both. Basically, they raised their rates.
What's funny is the screaming over it at MSNBC's user comments..... If you don't like it then cancel. But people are screaming like they are going to be put into the poor house over this.
Yeah, it's not that big of a price increase. It would have been nice to have a smaller price increase, of course, but customers are still getting a really good deal with unlimited streaming. This finally brought us to cancel our DVD service, though. We've had the same DVD sitting here since April because we primarily use streaming now. It used to cost us $10 a month now it's only $8.
Have any of the denizens of wordforge seen das boat? Its a truly incredible film, the meticulous detail is fantastic, from the use of actual u boat pens in la rochelle, france, to the subs interior and exterior surfaces, exactly like a type VIIc/40 boat. To the trained ear, ypu can tell director wolfgang peterson got actors from all over germany and austria to crew the boat....besides, duke leto atreides is the captain!
I had 3 Blu-Rays + streaming until the last time they raised their rates. So I switched to 2 Blu-Rays + streaming, and my monthly bill still came down. This time I eliminated the Blu-Rays, and at 2 DVDs + streaming I'm still paying more -- but not much more. Probably right around where I was originally w/ 3 Blu-Rays. And I might drop the streaming if I decide I'm happy with DirecTV's OnDemand. In fact, 3 DVDs is even cheaper, and probably better for me since mostly what I watch is old HBO series that aren't available on streaming, and often only on DVD anyway.
Yeah, streaming turned out to be far more popular than they'd planned. I remember when I'd signed onto esnipe at great pricing - basically at no charge for auctions over $25 or something (it's a service that bids on ebay and you can change your mind until the last few minutes, plus you avoid bidding wars), and they later regretted their pricing package. With esnipe they grandfathered my original payment plan, so I still wouldn't have to pay (I haven't been active at ebay/esnipe for several years), but Netflix is a much bigger business and their cost per stream is probably rising so it was time for a price hike (DVD should be a premium service anyway, since they get new releases a few weeks before everyone else, and early 'adopters' always pay more).
I will either switch to just getting dvds or canceling due to economic circumstances. Just according to when I get a new job. They currently don't have enough shows on streaming that I like.
^Last October I paid $60 for a year of unlimited streaming on "Megavideo" and I find any television show I want to stream through "sidereel". I use it for all the tv shows I've watched since at times I've had way way way too much time on my hands (Dexter, Stargate Universe, Eureka, Justified, Doc Who, BSG, House, Breaking Bad, etc. etc.). On occasion sidereel doesn't show the megavideo link in the original search, but one of the other links will indirectly lead you the megavideo source. It's got old stuff, too, such as some recent stuff I watched like early Simpsons and 3d rock from the sun. Not sure whether any of that suits your purposes, just a quick FYI that it's out there and pretty reasonable at $5 a month (prepaid of course).
1. If $8 per month will put you in the poorhouse, your budgeting is for shit. 2. If paying another $8 per month for Netflix will put you in the poorhouse, Netflix probably should be part of your budget to begin with. I suspect the streaming began as an add-on service that they didn't think anybody would use much at first, and certainly didn't expect anyone to be willing to pay for. But I personally haven't gotten a physical DVD from Netflix in about three years. As more and more people use the streaming service exclusively, it probably became obvious that (1) people WOULD be willing to pay for it independently, and (2) the economics of supporting the ability to stream that much content to that many people wouldn't work out to keep it as a free add-on. Personally, I don't know if I'll pay the $16 to be able to get physical DVDs if I want to, or downgrade to the $7.99 streaming-only option. But the mass outcry is baffling. It's not your electric bill. If it's an unreasonable price, nobody's making you pay it.
Yeah, I've owned the director's cut since it was released on DVD a number of years ago. It was among the first DVDs I ever bought, IIRC. I'd like to see the miniseries that was cut down into the movie. You ever see Stalingrad? Made by the producers of Das Boot and, until I saw The Road, was the most depressing movie I'd ever seen (even more depressing than Hamburger Hill).
We decided to drop the DVD mail service and just go streaming next month. Surprised it took this long actually.
I have seen stalingrad, that was almost as intense a film as das boot. I'm more of a nautical sort of guy, so das boot appeals to me more. Besides, land based action movies often fail the historically accurate test(see m48 pattons in the battle of the bulge with henry fonda), although they're getting better all the time(ala band of brothers).
The sub from das boot is the sub in raiders. They were running out of $ so they rented it to spielberg. They got it back trashed.
I'm sure the germans were displeased. They studied the plans they have at the Chicago museum of industry to get the interior of the boat correct down to the last bolt. I'm sure they got a good look at U 505 while they were there, which is a Type IXC u boat, not a Type VIIC like the movie boat, U 96. The movie itself is based on a war correspondents cruise on the real U 96, commanded by Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the sixth highesst scoring sub ace of all time.
