[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Sep 2 14:09:31 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:48:19PM -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>  On 9/1/2010 21:39, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >On 2 September 2010 11:08, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
> >>The prices I saw looked awfully expensive to me.
> >Just as cheap as my local rental place, except that I don't have to
> >take the car.
> >
> 
> I can't say I've been to a brick-and-mortar rental store for years
> to know what they actually charge, however we've got RedBox units in
> most supermarkets that are a dollar a rental, and even with mail
> turnaround on Netflix, you can easily get it down to around a dollar
> a rental.  You're paying 5x that for the convenience of streaming
> through an AppleTV.

...then there's Netflix streaming.

It's very handy for those BBC shows that have absurd DVD pricing.

They have a pretty good selection of HBO/Showtime stuff too.

I think a lot of people will be first asking "does it have netflix".


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