It's nothing like Netflix. It's an overpriced on demand video service where you can rent and buy almost any movie or TV show you want.

well i watched A LOT of comedy series, and i mean A LOT so in a way i know a good show from a bad one and in a way i know what im talking about. see the big bang theory started out great, because they were nerds and scientists the jokes and humor was rather unique, even though it depended a lot on sex jokes (something sadly every comedy series does now) it still felt like a fresh and funny show, also the one character that made the show explode with popularity was sheldon cooper, a rather odd, arrogant but genius scientist. sheldon (espcially in the first couple of seasons) is really funny, he is like the joey(friends) or barney (HIMYM) of the show.

after the 3rd season the show started dripping in quality. one of the main aspects of comedy in the show was the trouble they all had with women, somehow though two characters leonard (the main character) and howard just became players. leonard not only did he could succesfuly get slamming hotties somehow, but slamming hotties started hitting on him all of a sudden. and howard managed to bag a slamming hottie with tits the size of your head. they also added another character. to offset that change they completely destroyed the fourth main character Raj, they made him an extremely desprate looser who is also a drunk, literally the guy always has alcohol in his hands. (he cant talk to women unless he is drunk), the guy is overly pathatic and not funny at all.

the reason for this change in my opinion is the change of demographic the show wants to go after, the first couple of seasons people who are gamers, WoW players, comic book fans and even scientists could relate to easily, the show became seccussful and they wanted to go after a wider demographic, the show wanted the characters to seem "cool" so give the guys hot girl friends and make one a looser so they can seem cool and confident compared to him. 

the show now honestly i can say is a show for women, not that people who watch it are women, but the way the show is made, the jokes the structure of the episode's, the dailoge, and the characters and is now made to make women like the show, its made to be "hip". the change in the show's target audince is now very clear. and honestly its very very boring now. heck i barely bother watching it and if i do watch it i usually dont continue the episode. 

to put it simple, the show was great, they added characters because they wanted a bigger audince, the show is now crap. dont bother with it expect the first few seasons, thats my advice

Do you think it is over priced?  I didnt really check the prices when I looked at it?  From what i could see it looks like it would be cheaper for people who dont watch TV much other than a few shows.  But for people who watch a lot of TV it would be a bad idea because then it would end up costing more.

I just checked it out, the selection has improved but it's too expensive.
HD episodes are 250 msp (180 SD if people still watch SD :) comes to CAD 3,62 per episode before tax (Canadian points still cost more, although our currencies have been on par for the last 3 years)

We pay about $90 a month for cable including HDPVR rental, that would be about 25 episodes, less then 1 episode a day between me, my wife and my kids. Plus the way we watch TV is, record a bunch of stuff, check it out, discard or fastforward if boring. Do you get your money back if the episode sucks?

Full season pass: Walking dead for example, 3380 points, equals CAD 50,01
You can get the blu-ray with free delivery for CAD 39,99

Plus I checked Gold Rush which we watch, it's about a month behind. It's on sale now, 'only' 210 per episode.
Good show btw, although Bering sea gold has surpassed it imo. (that one is up to date)

Sure if you only watch very few things and already know you like them then it's an alternative.

It's similarly priced to all other on demand services; but I think they are all overpriced (you can always find the blu-ray versions cheaper).

I know! Dexter used to be on netflix, but they pulled it off.  I like it too.   You can get it on Amazon Video (I think) which is almost as good as Xbox Video.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who likes the service.  The 1080P 5.1 streaming is great.  A couple of years ago I did a back to back comparison of Blu-ray to 1080p 5.1 streaming of the same stuff, and, yes, you could notice a slight differeance, but not much.  I'd rather buy things on streaming as I don't have to carry anything around when I go to a friends house.

Just log in, and vola! you entire library, and no disk to track down, scratch or lose.  The only reason I’ve found to buy the disk, is if you can’t stream it, or if it’s 4 times cheaper.

The new streaming format (H.265) they approved should make things even better.  1080P video will use half the bandwidth of today, with the same picture. (but the computers on each end have to work 4 times harder.)

PS Wait! Why isn't Doctor Who (or Torchwood, or both) on that list? 

It took me a while to get into the humor of the show myself as I now see as making fun with, not making fun of smart people.  But basiclly, if you think this joke is funny you will like the show:

"Schrodingers cat walks into a bar...

...and he doesn't."

A unified service would be nice. PSN has game of thrones, Skyfall and Argo in Canada, not on Xbox video. But Game of Thrones episodes are $4.49 each (guess they know it's not on xbox so it's a dollar more per episode then regular) and although movies on psn are a dollar cheaper in Canada, you get a lower bandwidth version. (about 50% bigger file size on xbox, upto 10mbps for pre-downloaded versions)

I'll stick with blu-ray for now. I also compared the quality a few years ago and it's a huge difference for me.  Streaming services all use lossy dolby digital 5.1 and picture quality doesn't hold up very well in action scenes. (Nor extras, comentaries, original language plus subtitle options) If you wait a bit you can buy the blu-ray for not much more then the HD rental price, and definitely cheaper then what they charge for digital ownership.

I found my old comparison pictures. Here is 2 scenes from the Transformers trailer on some blu-ray disc and Transformers movie on Zune at the time.
                     
It's taken with dslr of screen, stored as jpg but you still get the idea.

Xbox video does look better then HD tv in action sequences, my cable provider still uses real time mpeg2 compression yuck.

Game of thrones is on Xbox Video.  I dont know about the other two.  

And yeah I suess you all are right.  It is around $3 for HD 

In the US? The search didn't find it for Canada. I couldn't find other things on psn either. Also why I see no point in investing in a digital library if it's going to be spread out over different services.