Re:Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)
by antisthenes on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:15PM
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> However - I'd rather spin a film up on Netflix than go hunting through a shitty folder structure of my own idiotic devising. I'd rather watch a series on netflix, which remembers where I am in the series and auto-plays next than manually load up episodes on the odd evening when I've got time.
There is desktop software that does all of this locally, including auto-play, intro skipping, remembering where you were in a media file, even auto-downloading subtitles and displaying them. Nor do you have to navigate through your own 'idiotic' folder structure as you put it, because software like Everything exists.
Just because you never bothered to set it up doesn't mean this functionality doesn't exist.
Re:Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)
by mbrock on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:08AM
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Netflix's selection of films is also so atrocious as to be dangerous for the Bildung of our youth.
Re:Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)
by general8bitso on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:57AM
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uPNP is pretty cool.
Piracy grows when it is more convenient than legal consumption. I'd rather download a torrent of a DvD I own than go and fetch it, put it in a cd tray, play it with shitty un-skippable intro etc. However - I'd rather spin a film up on Netflix than go hunting through a shitty folder structure of my own idiotic devising. I'd rather watch a series on netflix, which remembers where I am in the series and auto-plays next than manually load up episodes on the odd evening when I've got time.
Admittedly Netflix seems to be going out of its way to make the UI intolerably aggravating, but at some points it seemed pretty well done.