The Insomniac Coder

Image via Wikipedia Amazon Prime Streaming Will Disrupt Netflix, Here's How | The Business Of Online Video It's been an interesting week for video streaming . Amazon is allowing us Prime members to watch about 5000 of their streaming titles for free, Hulu made a deal with the Criterion Collection (at least for the Hulu plus members), and Netflix made a $200 million content deal with CBS . I had a chance to test the free Amazon streaming and it was no different than Netflix, and the only difference (in principle) from Hulu was not having to watch the fucking ads (even if I pay for Hulu plus). I also cashed-in a rental credit with Amazon and watched Exorcist: Director's Cut offline. This was pretty cool except that the DRM license is tied to whatever monitor was active when you asked for the purchase ( at least that is how Amazon explained my customer support inquiry  I have verified this behavior, whatever monitor is active when you start the movie will set the DRM and ...

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The funniest part about this comic is that I was the one that basically spent Sunday avoiding The Game. Alex Esoterica thought that was hilarious, so instead of sending me game updates every 30 seconds he sent me a running commentary of everything NOT involving The Game itself. My geek forcefield consisted of: Top Gear UK (incredible as usual) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (loved it) The Girl That Played With Fire Troubleshooting why Netflix kept choking while streaming The Girl That Played With Fire Testing to see if turning Aero on or off made a difference with the Netflix performance issue Testing to see if there was a difference in the Netflix performance across browsers and with Windows Media Center Tweaking Dropbox and iDrive so certain backups wouldn't spike CPU usage at weird times (like for example, when trying to watch a fucking movie on Netflix). Some minor grinding in Oblivion, which is sort of my methadone to try to shake off the Fallout: New Vegas ad...