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I think he meant live TV specifically, which is still something available through some cable providers' apps.
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hcreight posted:So have you ever wondered to yourself, "What would it be like if Heroes did a rehash episode of Company Man, but this time there's a rape baby involved?"
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 05:47 |
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GreenNight posted:I got bummed when Holloway's last show was canceled so I'm hesitant to start watching Colony.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:25 |
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Ravane posted:What happened to watching TV on your phone. I remember Sprint used to have that option. Why are old people unwilling to let the tv go. Nobody wants to watch tv on that. I had this weird thing on my phone about ten years ago where I could pull out a little antenna and pick up streaming TV being broadcast directly from the cell towers without using internet bandwidth. I think it was a T-Mobile thing, or maybe Verizon? It was pretty neat, I could watch unlimited Star Trek on demand like a right proper nerd.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 10:05 |
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I saw TV on my Game Gear once. It was lovely.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 10:06 |
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Remember when the GBA had cartridges that let you watch one or two heavily compressed episodes of dubbed shounen? e: there were regular cartoons too apparently
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 10:08 |
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Here's what Tim Goodman, my favorite TV critic, has to say about the new X-FilesThe Hollywood Reporter posted:What we’re left with is a very underwhelming hour that will force even diehard fans (and yes, I was one of them) to consider whether pushing onward is really worth the time. Ah, time. Maybe it’s dulled the memory a bit, but was Duchovny, famously laconic anyway, always this sedated? Anderson seems equally placid and unhurried on her part, which makes the whole affair seem (as it did when a sneak preview was shown to critics in the summer) slightly off. Out of context in the summer, the clip seemed like a spoof. A large portion of the room was laughing because we thought that’s what it was. Turns out, no, but at least in context there’s less wince-inducing hilarity to the first episode. And yet, nearly every scene seems stunted and out of any kind of dramatic rhythm. Fox only sent out the first episode to critics. I think the placid/sedated acting on the two leads is pretty standard in the old show.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 10:31 |
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Ravane posted:What happened to watching TV on your phone. I remember Sprint used to have that option. Why are old people unwilling to let the tv go. Nobody wants to watch tv on that. I mostly watch TV on my laptop and my tablet personally. I have an actual TV. It's p dusty.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 12:32 |
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Lady Naga posted:Remember when the GBA had cartridges that let you watch one or two heavily compressed episodes of dubbed shounen? Still more practical than Sony trying to make UMD discs into an actual media format.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 13:04 |
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Is Colony more Mr. Robot-USA or more Royal Pains-USA?
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 13:16 |
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It wasn't as strong of a first episode as Mr. Robot (then what is?) but I thought it was pretty solid. Although there was a weird thing going on with USA's web promotion where they're doing some website where you can play games/whatnot and they ask you to join either the Resistance or the Collaborators and the whole thing feels kind of like whoever was behind it didn't watch the show. Because the show paints the Collaborator/Alien side as unequivocal bad guys.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 13:50 |
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I'm watching Battlestar Galactica again and I just realized that the only person who believes in President Rosalind's visions is the Magical Negro.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 14:43 |
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Sleeveless posted:Netflix still got your subscription money and the content you watched still got the viewership credit, that's like the opposite of piracy. They're mad because if you watch US Netflix from Canada, it's like NBC or CBS got paid for the Big Bang Theory episodes you watched instead of CTV even though it doesn't work that way at all.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 14:47 |
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Going after geododgers will just increase actual piracy. There's no way for them to get the same variety of content across all regions, so the best thing is just to take people's money and look the other way like they've been doing. Guess some partner must have complained about it finally. Really sucks, I'm definitely gonna cancel, my country's selection is absolutely pitiful.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 15:21 |
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Vanderdeath posted:Man, this sucks. I had a VPN almost specifically for this reason, too. Meh, they say things like this a couple of times a year and make some half-hearted change that's circumvented the next day. I suspect it's just to placate the distributors. Netflix knows they'd lose customers if you could only watch shows from your own country. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if announcements like this are stealth advertising the fact that it's possible. Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Junkenstein posted:Meh, they say things like this a couple of times a year and make some half-hearted change that's circumvented the next day. I suspect it's just to placate the distributors. Netflix knows they'd lose customers if you could only watch shows from your own country. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if announcements like this are stealth advertising the fact that it's possible. That's because all they've been doing until now is blocking known exit points for proxies, VPNs etc. They have always had the option to lock you to content from your billing address, they just haven't. If they go that route that's it, you're done.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 15:31 |
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Aphrodite posted:That's because all they've been doing until now is blocking known exit points for proxies, VPNs etc. On Amazon/PSN you can circumvent this by using a fake US address, they would have to go after proxies
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 15:36 |
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Hakkesshu posted:On Amazon/PSN you can circumvent this by using a fake US address, they would have to go after proxies If your credit card security sucks, which luckily for many people it does, that can work. For most you need a valid US payment method.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 15:52 |
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Is there a legal/decently priced way to watch Battlestar Galactica? All I can see is buying it on Amazon or iTunes but its massively overpriced for what I can imagine paying in this day and age of Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu. I'm not spending $100 for the Blue Ray and streaming it seems like it would cost twice that. Is this just gonna be a thing where since its so popular with nerds they charge an arm and a leg?
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 15:57 |
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STAC Goat posted:Is there a legal/decently priced way to watch Battlestar Galactica? All I can see is buying it on Amazon or iTunes but its massively overpriced for what I can imagine paying in this day and age of Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu. I'm not spending $100 for the Blue Ray and streaming it seems like it would cost twice that. Buy the physical set, I guess? It's only $50 on Amazon
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 16:01 |
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It's on UK Netflix, i just changed my region to watch Cloverfield it's there fo sure, Blood & Chrome is too.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 16:02 |
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Aphrodite posted:If your credit card security sucks, which luckily for many people it does, that can work. Yeah I have a bunch of things that rely on a US address, where I provide one that I'm allowed to but doesn't have any association to my card. Even Adobe doesn't check this. It's pretty great for getting US pricing on things.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 16:03 |
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Aphrodite posted:That's because all they've been doing until now is blocking known exit points for proxies, VPNs etc. Sure. What I'm saying is they probably won't do that because they know it's against their best interests. It's a balancing game for them between making it seem like they're doing enough to crack down on geododging and, well, not actually cracking down on geododging.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 16:05 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah I have a bunch of things that rely on a US address, where I provide one that I'm allowed to but doesn't have any association to my card. Even Adobe doesn't check this. It's pretty great for getting US pricing on things. Lots of places don't care because they're the vendor in either case. Bestbuy even straight up has a page telling you what fake billing address to use if you want to buy on .com with a card from outside the US. Anything dealing with licensing though usually has to at a bare minimum require you to have a valid payment method for that country. Even if it's just a gift card.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 16:19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_73TwW0jvU
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 17:37 |
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Fox orders new 24 pilot with none of the original cast Hahaha, gently caress no I'm not watching that.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:12 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Hahaha, gently caress no I'm not watching that. Weird reason not to watch something, given how many great reboots there have been over the years with a fresh cast.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:14 |
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less laughter posted:Weird reason not to watch something, given how many great reboots there have been over the years with a fresh cast.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:18 |
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"Sutherland has recently been cast in a new ABC thriller called Designated Survivor, where he’ll play a man suddenly handed the presidency after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union address." Watching the gently caress out of that. Bauer in office. That's straight out of a Tom Clancy novel.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:19 |
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Mu Zeta posted:"Sutherland has recently been cast in a new ABC thriller called Designated Survivor, where he’ll play a man suddenly handed the presidency after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union address."
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:22 |
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I thought you meant Donald instead of Kiefer
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:23 |
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Give me the launch codes!!!
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:25 |
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Baronash posted:I think he meant live TV specifically, which is still something available through some cable providers' apps. If you have an HDHomerun you can watch TV on your phone if you're on the same lan. I'm pretty sure there's a thing like that for Slingboxes too.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:27 |
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Mu Zeta posted:Give me the launch codes!!! Well of course Mr President, here you are. Actually back in the day when we employed ethicsists and the like to think about nuclear doctrine, one the ideas floated was to surgically place the codes inside a living Presidential aide so that the President would be forced to kill a man to initiate a launch. That would be great for President Bauer.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:31 |
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raditts posted:If you have an HDHomerun you can watch TV on your phone if you're on the same lan. I'm pretty sure there's a thing like that for Slingboxes too.
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Mu Zeta posted:"Sutherland has recently been cast in a new ABC thriller called Designated Survivor, where he’ll play a man suddenly handed the presidency after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union address." In case anyone thinks you're kidding, that is literally the plot of Debt of Honor/Executive Orders.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:48 |
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Sleeveless posted:Still more practical than Sony trying to make UMD discs into an actual media format. I seriously completely forgot about this because like a couple months after the PSP came out people figured out how to encode movies and put them on memory sticks. PS gently caress memory sticks.
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IRQ posted:In case anyone thinks you're kidding, that is literally the plot of Debt of Honor/Executive Orders. The only good one is King Ralph.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 19:53 |
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IRQ posted:In case anyone thinks you're kidding, that is literally the plot of Debt of Honor/Executive Orders. I wonder if this one will last long enough for a Supreme Court justice to cite it as justification for something terrible.
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raditts posted:I wonder if this one will last long enough for a Supreme Court justice to cite it as justification for something terrible. I'm still waiting for Scalia to cite something out of a Call of Duty game.
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