Comments on: I give up http://www.haibane.info/2008/01/09/i-give-up/ a celebration of science fiction, anime, and geek culture Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:58:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Scorp http://www.haibane.info/2008/01/09/i-give-up/#comment-1298 Scorp Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:47:34 +0000 http://www.haibane.info/2008/01/09/i-give-up/#comment-1298 Check your memory, seriously. Both my laptop and desktop play Netflix vids no problem; my friend can play vids on his disk but not on his desktop. All the system which can run Netflix have 2 GB memory. Of course, the ones which can play Netflix are also Duocore while the one which cannot is Monocore. Check your memory, seriously. Both my laptop and desktop play Netflix vids no problem; my friend can play vids on his disk but not on his desktop. All the system which can run Netflix have 2 GB memory. Of course, the ones which can play Netflix are also Duocore while the one which cannot is Monocore.

]]> By: Mark http://www.haibane.info/2008/01/09/i-give-up/#comment-1289 Mark Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:51:40 +0000 http://www.haibane.info/2008/01/09/i-give-up/#comment-1289 (music) DRM is dead! Long live (movie) DRM! Seriously, movie DRM hasn't shown any sort of dropoff in the way music DRM has. My buddy has XBox live, and is able to dowload movies so that he can watch them right on his shiny HDTV (and he can download HD versions of movies too, it just takes a lot longer). Incidentally, I've never had a problem with Netflix's watch online service (aside from having to switch to IE to watch them). It's technically a "free" service, so I don't feel like I have much of a right to complain about it... but Linux and Mac users certain have a case. It doesn't look like something that will be solved anytime soon either, as I believe Netflix is looking into Silverlight (MS's proprietary flashlike presentation application) to enhance the functionality. But it's still hard for me to blame Netflix for having to deal with studios' stupid DRM requirements. (music) DRM is dead! Long live (movie) DRM!

Seriously, movie DRM hasn’t shown any sort of dropoff in the way music DRM has.

My buddy has XBox live, and is able to dowload movies so that he can watch them right on his shiny HDTV (and he can download HD versions of movies too, it just takes a lot longer).

Incidentally, I’ve never had a problem with Netflix’s watch online service (aside from having to switch to IE to watch them). It’s technically a “free” service, so I don’t feel like I have much of a right to complain about it… but Linux and Mac users certain have a case. It doesn’t look like something that will be solved anytime soon either, as I believe Netflix is looking into Silverlight (MS’s proprietary flashlike presentation application) to enhance the functionality. But it’s still hard for me to blame Netflix for having to deal with studios’ stupid DRM requirements.

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