Best streaming movie/TV shows service

[Bullgrit]

We signed up for Netflix over a month ago, and I've been surprised at what that service is missing in its movie library. I'm happy with the TV show selection, but movies, Netflix has left me unfulfilled for 7 out of 7 tries. Seven fails!

Tremors
Tron: Legacy
Airplane
Taken
RED
Scott Pilgrim
Sucker Punch

These movies aren't obscure. Some are old, some are relatively new. But they aren't strange, unknown titles.

This past weekend, I signed up for Hulu and Amazon Prime to see what they offered. I searched for these same movies on those services, and no luck. Amazon Prime seems to be a service where you pay a monthly fee to be able to pay an individual fee to rent movies. I dropped both services the same day I signed up.

Do you use a streaming service? Which do you use?

Bullgrit

 

[Morrus]

Heh. Netflix UK is close to useless - it has a fraction of the content of Netflix US.

I don't know if it's the same over there, but we have various services fighting for exclusive rights on show and movies. So everything's divided between 3-4 major competitors, rendering each if them fairly pointless. You have to subscribe to all of them to get decent content coverage; and the result is I don't subscribe to *any* of them.

 

[tomBitonti]

Hi,

I'm trying out VUDU, which seems to have more offerings than amazon. I used to use amazon, except they have fewer titles, and don't allow a lot of titles to be viewed in HD quality on a PC. VUDU lets me watch the titles in HD (and HDX).

The downside of VUDU is expense (not a huge component for me; time is a bigger cost for me), and the basic streaming experience. VUDU often loses its stream (or something), forcing me to close the window and restart. This problem occurs frequently, leading me to rather lose confidence in VUDU, which is otherwise great. Another problem is a bobble of the authorization service, which seems to be a different channel, and which can also interrupt streaming and force a restart. In both cases, the problems seem to be ones which the software could handle much much better. No technical reason that I should have to restart the stream to keep watching, so this to me is just complete FAIL of the VUDU technical team.

I haven't tried any of the subscription services. I rather dislike being forced to subscribe to obtain certain titles. (I'm OK to pay a little more, but restricting viewing to force me to subscribe is just detestable.) Amazon prime, I'm looking at you.

Thx!

TomB

 

[darjr]

Crackle.com is free but I don't think it has any of those.

 

[Bullgrit]

Netflix UK is close to useless - it has a fraction of the content of Netflix US.

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...treaming-movie-TV-shows-service#ixzz2hRTw2OfW

I didn't know there were national versions of Netflix. I thought it was an "Internet" thing. I understand how some web sites would have national versions -- sites that deal in physical products and such. But downloading content from the Internet? Can you not ignore the UK version and go right to the US? (I'm not suggesting you get Netflix, I'm asking is it possible.)

Bullgrit

 

[Morrus]

I didn't know there were national versions of Netflix. I thought it was an "Internet" thing. I understand how some web sites would have national versions -- sites that deal in physical products and such. But downloading content from the Internet? Can you not ignore the UK version and go right to the US? (I'm not suggesting you get Netflix, I'm asking is it possible.)

Bullgrit

If I could be bothered to do weird IP spoofing stuff and watch stuff on my computer screen, and find someone in the US to pay for it for me, I guess. None of that appeals, though! All rather too much effort.

 

[Herschel]

I've watched Tremors and Scott Pilgrim on Amazon Prime's free streaming so I'm not sure if they rotated off or what. I like Prime. It's about teh same price as Netflix for a year and I get free upgraded (2-day or next-day) shipping on stuff I order, which is most things I don't buy from from mom & pop shops.

 

[Bullgrit]

If I could be bothered to do weird IP spoofing stuff and watch stuff on my computer screen, and find someone in the US to pay for it for me, I guess. None of that appeals, though! All rather too much effort.

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...treaming-movie-TV-shows-service#ixzz2hRWposyR

So you can't just go to netflix.com and see/access the same things I do? You get routed differently because of your IP? I didn't know that.

Bullgrit

 

[Bullgrit]

I've watched Tremors and Scott Pilgrim on Amazon Prime's free streaming so I'm not sure if they rotated off or what. I like Prime. It's about teh same price as Netflix for a year and I get free upgraded (2-day or next-day) shipping on stuff I order, which is most things I don't buy from from mom & pop shops.

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...treaming-movie-TV-shows-service#ixzz2hRXrBsII

When I searched Amazon Prime, all I got was rental options for everything. So pay an annual fee to be able to pay to rent.

Bullgrit

 

[Herschel]

Technically, if you just want to rent or download you don't need the Prime Membership. That said, it appears Scott Pilgrim and Tremors have rotated out of their free offerings.