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thekitchensink on 01 October 2008

What's Starz Play?



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JaggedSac on 01 October 2008
thekitchensink said:
What's Starz Play?

 

Starz's catalog of movies that it is offering for digital distribution services to purchase.



Impulsivity on 01 October 2008

Sci Fi is already available on Hulu. It's pretty easy to stream stuff from Hulu.com to your TV for most TV shows, and as a bonus its free unlike the 15+ dollars Netflix+live will cost you.

I think Hulu is still just fox and Universal but I can't think of any shows I watch that aren't either on Fox or NBC or made by their development teams. Bones, House, 24, Heroes, the Office, The shield, Rescue Me, It's always sunny in Philidelphia, Battlestar Galactica, Arrested Development (if you haven't seen that show go to Hulu right now and watch it! Funniest show ever!) ect. I don't mean that as a knock on the 360 (not like the PS3 has Hulu) but a knock on CBS and ABC in general. I mean what is there, Dancing with the Stars and CSIx7?

It always strikes me as funny that somehow CBS and ABC have the best ratings and yet all the good shows are on NBC and Fox. Who are these people who watch crap like dancing with the stars and not the raw awesomeness that is 24!

Really though the sort of catch all I've found is downloading in packages from Pirates Bay and streaming the Divx files to my PS3 (it plays Divx without conversion now). I don't download movies/games but I do download TV shows I can't find online for free with ads. Maybe some people will claim its morally wrong or something, but how can it be wrong to watch something that I could have TIVOed myself for free if I had wanted to pay for Tivo? Flame on that if you want, but you can't pirate something people give away for free!




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JaggedSac on 01 October 2008
Impulsivity said:

Sci Fi is already available on Hulu. It's pretty easy to stream stuff from Hulu.com to your TV for most TV shows, and as a bonus its free unlike the 15+ dollars Netflix+live will cost you.

I think Hulu is still just fox and Universal but I can't think of any shows I watch that aren't either on Fox or NBC or made by their development teams. Bones, House, 24, Heroes, the Office, The shield, Rescue Me, It's always sunny in Philidelphia, Battlestar Galactica, Arrested Development (if you haven't seen that show go to Hulu right now and watch it! Funniest show ever!) ect. I don't mean that as a knock on the 360 (not like the PS3 has Hulu) but a knock on CBS and ABC in general. I mean what is there, Dancing with the Stars and CSIx7?

It always strikes me as funny that somehow CBS and ABC have the best ratings and yet all the good shows are on NBC and Fox. Who are these people who watch crap like dancing with the stars and not the raw awesomeness that is 24!

Really though the sort of catch all I've found is downloading in packages from Pirates Bay and streaming the Divx files to my PS3 (it plays Divx without conversion now). I don't download movies/games but I do download TV shows I can't find online for free with ads. Maybe some people will claim its morally wrong or something, but how can it be wrong to watch something that I could have TIVOed myself for free if I had wanted to pay for Tivo? Flame on that if you want, but you can't pirate something people give away for free!

 

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sinha on 02 October 2008

Great news.



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