Netflix Comes to Canada

Fox 6 · 09-21-2010, 08:13 PM

Haha do Netflix is now considered to be the measuring stick of the modern world?

Typhoid · 09-21-2010, 09:11 PM

Shaw on Demand > Netflix.

Why would I need to physically rent a movie and have it mailed to me when I can just get it at the very press of a button.

You're a dying breed, Netflix. I don't need your physical copies.

Vampyr · 09-21-2010, 10:33 PM

You do know Netflix does streaming?

BreakABone · 09-21-2010, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

You do know Netflix does streaming?

I hoped he was being sarcastic, since I said that pretty much Netflix in Canada will ONLY be streaming at the moment. Not the physical discs.

Typhoid · 09-22-2010, 02:55 AM

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I hoped he was being sarcastic

Indeed.

But I still do think Shaw on Demand is better, and will quickly destroy Netflix in Canada, because it is accessible with the touch of a button on everyone's standard remote [So long as they are with Shaw].

What's next - McDonald's releasing some type of 'Whopper'?

Fox 6 · 09-22-2010, 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Indeed.

But I still do think Shaw on Demand is better, and will quickly destroy Netflix in Canada, because it is accessible with the touch of a button on everyone's standard remote [So long as they are with Shaw].

What's next - McDonald's releasing some type of 'Whopper'?

Thats the thing, not everyone is with Shaw, and I think Netflix is cheaper too.

Typhoid · 09-22-2010, 03:31 AM

Aside from the fact I was initially kidding, I honestly haven't been to one house that doesn't have Shaw on Demand. Unless I was in that house for a short amount of time, or possibly because we were not watching TV at that house and I wasn't able to see if they did or didn't.

Let me rephrase; to my recollection, all of the houses I have been inside of and have watched a television in for a minimum of 1 hour had SoD.

If it's cheaper, power to it. Start a non-physical-movie-rental-price-war for all I care.

But seriously, everyone I'm aware of gets their TV through Shaw. If it's cheaper, yeah - I can see people going with Netflix while they're with Shaw. Hell, I'm even pretty sure Shaw being a huge majority is only a local thing, and people in the East, or middle of the country use Rogers or something - but if it's comparably priced to people who get their rentals through Shaw or Rogers, I don't see it doing that great with those two groups of TV-people.