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Especially because torrenting was once slow and painful, so Netflix and co compared very favourably. Now, torrenting is fast and chances are you've watched almo
by prawn 7y ago
Especially because torrenting was once slow and painful, so Netflix and co compared very favourably. Now, torrenting is fast and chances are you've watched almost anything worth watching on Netflix already.
Paying for a few of them might appeal to people who've historically paid for cable (or Foxtel/etc in Australia), but it's a noticeable cost otherwise. We currently subscribe to Netflix and Stan, but have dropped Stan in the past and may again.
- xiphias2 7y agoI happily pay for Netflix, but actually I travel a lot and don't always have Wifi, so I like to download the movies. My problem with Netflix is that its download function is very unstable, so actually I'm thinking of going back to torrenting just because there's no payed option for watching movies offline easily.
- Oletros 7y agoHere in Spain, HBO doesn't even have the option to download for offline watching.
- hocuspocus 7y ago> Especially because torrenting was once slow and painful, so Netflix and co compared very favourably. Maybe in Australia... but here torrenting has never been slow and wasn't particularly inconvenient when Netflix first came out.
- prawn 7y agoWill take your word for it. I'd guess that in the past here, you'd wait a day or so for a torrent to finish. Now I'd guess they take minutes.