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mendax writes:
A New York Times op-ed reports:
A team of web designers recently released an astonishingly innovative app for streaming movies online. The program, Popcorn Time, worked a bit like Netflix, except it had one unusual, killer feature. It was full of movies you'd want to watch. When you loaded Popcorn Time, you were presented with a menu of recent Hollywood releases: "American Hustle," "Gravity," "The Wolf of Wall Street," "12 Years A Slave," and hundreds of other acclaimed films were all right there, available for instant streaming at the click of a button.
If Popcorn Time sounds too good to be true, that's because it was. The app was illegal - a well-designed, easy-to-use interface for the movie-pirating services that have long ruled the Internet's underbelly. Shortly after the app went public, its creators faced a barrage of legal notices, and they pulled it down. But like Napster in the late 1990s, Popcorn Time offered a glimpse of what seemed like the future, a model for how painless it should be to stream movies and TV shows online. The app also highlighted something we've all felt when settling in for a night with today's popular streaming services, whether Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, or Google or Microsoft's media stores: They just aren't good enough.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mrclisdue on Friday March 28 2014, @04:09PM
I have installed over 50 raspis, 45 of them now running raspbmc, the other 5 openelec, and that works out to about 38 of us folk who are 100% absolutely, totally satisfied with movie streaming, and live tv streaming, and live sports streaming, and, and, and...
It's not just FTW!!!!, it's that you have access to the WHOLE WORLD.
It's past the time to think outside of the USbox.
cheers,
(Score: 2) by TK on Friday March 28 2014, @07:20PM
Is there a decent solution for Netflix on the RasPi? That's the only thing that's kept me from pulling the trigger and buying one to use as an HTPC.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @08:23PM
This may be a bit backwards. But buy a TV that has it built in. That is what I did. It may actually be somewhat hard to buy one these days without it...
Plus a universal remote and poof. Netflix is a couple of clicks away. Not integrated as nicely but it works pretty good.
Downside is you have to use that crappy ass netflix menu...
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Saturday March 29 2014, @12:04AM
Still doesn't address the issue that Netflix doesn't have all that great a variety of movies.
(Score: 1) by mrclisdue on Friday March 28 2014, @11:14PM
Sorry, I have no need for netflix, because 1channel>netflix, icefilms>netflix, mashup>netflix, axxo>netflix....
I can watch *anything* and everything, anytime, so why would I waste a penny on Netflix?
I do understand that you're asking if there's a decent Netflix client, but I wonder why one would need it, xbmc has everything netflix has to offer, times about six.
cheers,