Maybe my reply was too cryptic...

Have you been affected by the Great DVD Fire SG?

I got my first movie in a week yesterday. ;)

ooo this sounds like an awesome setup which I would love to get. The only thing close to that in Australia is an Entertainment Pass you can get from a Video store and you get unlimited rentals for a whole month.

Similarly you can only have two out at any one time and you can have it as long as you want (even the newest ones). All you have to do is bring the old ones in and they'll swap them for you. Trouble is that you can only choose from the ones in the store. But I got my money back 3 times over in a single month, go Uni Holidays! (no work to do at home like school used to have :D)

And the sound of a 'circle of love' is kind of creepy and suggestive, both of which I can handle unfortunately no Netflix here.

Being the nerd that I am, I saught out some Greasemonkey to aid my laziness and figured anyone with Firefox would like this as well.

Greasemonkey is an amazing Firefox plug-in which allows you to add in user-scripts to the html of websites you visit. I looked for some Netflix related ones and found exactly what I was looking for. If you're like me, you probably search for the imdb page of a movie before looking anywhere else for info on the movie, this handy dandy Greasemonkey script inserts a link in any IMDB page to search Netflix for that same movie. For example:

http://basement-films.net/Peter/images/imdb-netflix.jpg

Simply click the Netflix link and it searches Netflix for the film.

Anyways, it certainly is handy if you're as lazy as I am. To install it, first you'll need Greasemonkey from here and after you've installed Greasemonkey (you'll need to restart your browser after the install) just right click this link and select "Install user script", click okay and you're good to go!*

If you want any more awesome Greasemonkey scripts, here is a fantastic, site-specific list of scripts and what they do.

*The only problem I've found with the script is that if the imdb lists the foreign title, it'll search Netflix for that foreign title, which it may not always be listed as causing it to look like Netflix doesn't have the movie when they actually do, but other than that it works like a charm.

EDIT: Upon further browsing, there is another Greasemonkey script called The Movie Dude which does the same thing, but for a wider variety of sites (including Rotten Tomatoes) and cross links them all (so links are inserted when viewing a movie on Netflix to imdb, rotten tomatoes etc etc and vice-versa). Check it out, it has more functionality than the above script, but also a little more clutter. Take your pick as to which you prefer.

When ordering from Netflix , do they send you the disc(s) in the envelope in or out of its case?

Out of the case and in certain situations a second disc (if it is just special features for example) will have to be selected seperately. At first I thought that was kinda lame, but it doesn't matter to much to me because when I rent a movie I rarely watch the special features on a second disc.

Thanks. :D

Have any Netflix users ever had the problem of their DVD actually being stolen in the mail?

I was supposed to get The Wicker Man in the mail, but all I got was the cover slip (what you tear off to get to the DVD) inside of a plastic sheet from the post office with a note about "sorry for the damaged mail". Damaged my ass, it's pretty obvious someone knew what was inside and just tore off the part with the DVD in it.

Too bad Netflix doesn't have an option to report the problem as, "some ******* stole it."

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I sent friendlist invitations to Sam, Sedai and OG...

Had this problem twice now, some people must be getting over

I've had one go missing, and two that arrived broken. My mail carrier is an ape. :mad:

I've only had one go missing. Service has been great.....really fast.

uhm.... Is birdy's name Amy? I got an invite from someone whose name I don't know. :p I wish they'd let us use screennames on there, having a bear of a time remembering who's who. :/

I got one from an Amy too....

Nope, I'm not Amy. I haven't sent anybody an invite. But if anyone wants one I'd be happy to oblige. :)

bump!
so then... who's Amy??

I have no clue, but she invited me as well...

Conspiracy!...Yay!

Maybe it's some kind of automated movie watching robot that Netflix has created to steer people towards certain movies that they have a large stock of.

hee! It's a thought...

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I've used Netflix as an alternative ever since we had to disconnect our cable service so I still receive my fix of movies. I went through this entire thread and added all the email addresses. Go Netflix.

Alright Netflix is really starting to piss me off.

They have changed their terms of use:

So the consumer is ultimately punished for watching more movies than other customers.

It's really pissing me the **** off when a movie ships on a Tuesday to arrive on a Saturday or when it takes them over 2 of their business days to even acknowledge the reciept of one of my movies and a further two days to send one out.

I understand they've changed their rules to save themselves money, but this is complete bull****.

sakldfnasidufn9812u1093jnasd!~!!!!!!!!!

$20 says that within the next 5 months they begin to offer a higher tier that costs more, but doesn't have the pitfall of nerfing customers who actually use the service and don't just sit on movies.

EDIT:
Actually, what I hoped would happen (kind of) already has. A lawsuit has been brought against Netflix for their bull**** "unlimited rentals" claim and I ask everyone who is a subscriber to check out this site:

http://www.netflixsettlementsucks.com/

Even if you don't get over 12 movies a month and are thus not affected, what they're doing isn't fair. Don't sign on if you don't want to (or if you don't even care), but you should at least know it is out there.