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kleinbl00  ·  4072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Netflix's War on Mass Culture | New Republic

Netflix sends their Roku streams out through the Back 40. Try it - streaming through an XBox or a Wii or your computer is vastly better than streaming through the Roku. It's a known issue with no solution. You can trick it for a while with DNS hijacks but Netflix is literally fucking Roku over.

OINB is addictively entertaining. I found it to be quite trivial initially, but it grows on you.

FWIW, my vicarious experiences through Youngluck line up pretty succinctly with the "prisonisms" in OINB.

Amazon Prime has Good Wife. Good Wife is a hell of a series. And if you're looking for something long and involving but without the primordial suckitude of Lost, The Wire is dizzope.





thenewgreen  ·  4072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I think we should give the Wire another shot. For whatever reason, we started and quit after the first season. It had nothing to do with quality, we just didn't pick it up again. I'll pose OINB, The Wire and Good Wife all to my wife and let her pick. Nice to have some options though.

What do you mean that Netflix sends their Roku streams out through the Back 40? We watch LOST via Netflix via Roku.

kleinbl00  ·  4071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean the data throughput Netflix gives to Roku is deprecated compared to what it gives to every other streaming partner. They simply allow Roku less bandwidth.

thenewgreen  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did not realize that, thanks.