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post #2071 of 3776
5/28/11 at 6:54am
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20-25Mbps is completely adequate for any & all movies. But Cox is probably processing the heck out of their signals which would account for their looking bad if that's what you're saying.

I only have 15mps via FIOS and it has been fine for 1080p, Dolby Digital Plus streaming.
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post #2072 of 3776
5/28/11 at 9:04am
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Originally Posted by Darin View Post

A 300+ word post just to address someone else's "incorrect" abbreviation is like fingernails down a chalkboard to me.

From your placing of "incorrect" within quotation marks is it fair for other posters to infer that you claim the acronym "BR" is correct?

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Yes, and completely off-topic as well. Like the "streaming" post I couldn't help but respond to.

The topic of streaming seems to me to be perfectly appropriate in this, the Blockbuster TOTAL ACCESS thread. I suspect you have confused this thread with the Netflix Blu-ray thread in which the mods have made clear that discussions of streaming are off topic and not allowed. If I'm wrong about streaming being proper here the mods can let me know and I will be happily governed by their decision.

I just don't like streaming. Don't know how much if any of that is Internet speed related but for whatever reason I rarely used streaming when I was a NF subscriber because it never looked particularly good and sounded worse.
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post #2073 of 3776
5/28/11 at 9:14am
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Originally Posted by DJ Matt View Post

Blockbuster is changing their prices tomorrow. It really doesn't make a difference to us since we exchange for free, but if you wanted to rent something else without an exchange it looks like all new releases will be 2.99 to rent instead of 4.99, but its a 1 day rental and if you want to keep it out past the due date its 99 cents a day. All old stuff is 99 cents to rent. After a movie has been out for so many weeks the price drops to 1.99. Pricing is the same for Blu-ray I think too.

Is anyone else who has Total Access and does in store exchanges, just a little bit worried that they might change the rules for the store exchange disc? It used to be we could keep the store disc as long as we wanted (no penalty). Then they changed it to 3 days (each additional day .99)... What if they change it to 1 day (each additional day .99)???
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post #2074 of 3776
5/28/11 at 9:54am
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Originally Posted by hammerdwn View Post

if they change it to 1 day (each additional day .99)???

That's already been changed....2.99 for one day, .99 each additional. That's still one dollar less for 3 days than before.
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post #2075 of 3776
5/28/11 at 11:03am
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Originally Posted by gwsat View Post

All of that said, you are a respected poster here and I did not mean to offend you. My purpose was to try to influence others not to commit the "BR" gaffe, if for no other reason than the sake of my mental health.

let's not get carried away here. I think "respected" is probably an extreme overstatement . I'm quite sure there are at least a few posters an AVS who wish they never heard of me... No offense taken though. Like I said, it wasn't meant as an official acronym anyway. It was a completely informal, on-the-fly abbreviation, much like using a person or movie name's initials to save typing. If it makes you feel any better though, when typing Blu-ray I always spell Blu without the "e", ray without a capital "R", and I never leave out the hyphen either!


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Originally Posted by hammerdwn View Post

Is anyone else who has Total Access and does in store exchanges, just a little bit worried that they might change the rules for the store exchange disc? It used to be we could keep the store disc as long as we wanted (no penalty). Then they changed it to 3 days (each additional day .99)... What if they change it to 1 day (each additional day .99)???

Did I miss something? Regular exchanges are still unlimited time without additional charges aren't they?


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post #2076 of 3776
5/28/11 at 11:26am
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Did I miss something? Regular exchanges are still unlimited time without additional charges aren't they?


ron



Maybe I was mistaken, guess I could have been thinking of a charge on a store rental not a mailer exchange... I hope.
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post #2077 of 3776
5/28/11 at 11:32am
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Did I miss something? Regular exchanges are still unlimited time without additional charges aren't they?


ron

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Originally Posted by hammerdwn View Post

Maybe I was mistaken, guess I could have been thinking of a charge on a store rental not a mailer exchange... I hope.

I sure hope so too, I just returned one I had sitting here for 3 weeks.
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post #2078 of 3776
5/28/11 at 11:45am
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Originally Posted by R11 View Post

let's not get carried away here. I think "respected" is probably an extreme overstatement . I'm quite sure there are at least a few posters an AVS who wish they never heard of me... No offense taken though. Like I said, it wasn't meant as an official acronym anyway. It was a completely informal, on-the-fly abbreviation, much like using a person or movie name's initials to save typing. If it makes you feel any better though, when typing Blu-ray I always spell Blu without the "e", ray without a capital "R", and I never leave out the hyphen either!

Ron -- Thanks for your goodnatured, thoughtful response, it was was the sort of thing I have come to expect from you and was a lot friendlier than some other posts to this thread I have seen about my having raised the "BR," "BD" issue. I can't explain why the misuse of "BR" for "BD" makes me cranky but it does and God help me for it. Somehow, it makes me feel like Rainman when he missed Judge Wopner. In this thread my compulsive tic has caused me to catch grief that I would not have expected but not from you, so many thanks.

Back to BB for a moment, things are really not improving much yet. For instance, Blue Valentine, which was released several Tuesdays ago still shows as being "On Order" as do several other recent and not so recent releases. I certainly hope Dish gets the mess straightened out soon.
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post #2079 of 3776
5/28/11 at 11:58am
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Originally Posted by keenan View Post

I sure hope so too, I just returned one I had sitting here for 3 weeks.

Really... after I read that I went and pulled up my online bank statement for the last couple months to make sure I didn't have any mysterious BB charges I didn't know about.


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post #2080 of 3776
5/28/11 at 12:21pm
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Originally Posted by R11 View Post

Really... after I read that I went and pulled up my online bank statement for the last couple months to make sure I didn't have any mysterious BB charges I didn't know about.

I think but can't swear you are safe. As I understand it, there is still no limit on how long you can keep a disc received in the mail. There are, however, charges for discs obtained in the store, which are kept beyond a specified time. Perhaps someone who has a better understanding of BB's rules than I can tell us definitively.
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post #2081 of 3776
5/28/11 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by gwsat View Post

The topic of streaming seems to me to be perfectly appropriate in this, the Blockbuster TOTAL ACCESS thread.

Sorry gwsat, you are absolutely correct and I was wrong. Although I am a BB-by-mail subscriber I have never paid any attention to their On Demand service. Living in the "extreme country" as I do, and having limited Internet bandwidth available to me, my brain automatically filters-out all streaming service ads and info. I do apologize.

Just for the record, I wanna now shout loudly "STREAMING SUCKS!" because I resent the slowing-down of the Internet for all these crummy streaming activities going-on everywhere.
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post #2082 of 3776
5/28/11 at 5:21pm
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Originally Posted by gwsat View Post
From your placing of "incorrect" within quotation marks is it fair for other posters to infer that you claim the acronym "BR" is correct?
If we're going to continue the off-topic discussion, then I would suggest that an abbreviation is just that: a short version of the term used to save space and/or time. And in that sense, it served it's purpose. It may not be the official abbreviation designated by the BDA, but I doubt that anyone here was confused by the poster's meaning. The intent to communicate was successful. It's not being used in an official communication, so the official abbreviation isn't necessary. But while we're being pedantic, neither BR nor BD are proper acronyms. Technically, an acronym is a word formed by the abbreviation, that is typically pronounced as a word (like laser). But many people use the term acronym for simple abbreviations, just like many people probably abbreviate Blu-ray as BR. So I have no problem if you want to call BR and BD acronyms in an online forum. I know what you meant.
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post #2083 of 3776
5/28/11 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by Laserfan View Post
Sorry gwsat, you are absolutely correct and I was wrong. Although I am a BB-by-mail subscriber I have never paid any attention to their On Demand service. Living in the "extreme country" as I do, and having limited Internet bandwidth available to me, my brain automatically filters-out all streaming service ads and info. I do apologize.

Just for the record, I wanna now shout loudly "STREAMING SUCKS!" because I resent the slowing-down of the Internet for all these crummy streaming activities going-on everywhere.
Laserfan -- First thanks for your graceful apology, I appreciate it greatly. As noted in my earlier posts, although I live in a moderately big city and have relatively good bandwidth, we agree that "STREAMING SUCKS!" Those of us who have HT systems good enough to bring out the best in BDs are poorly served by streaming. Period, paragraph, end of report.
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post #2084 of 3776
5/28/11 at 6:27pm
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Originally Posted by Darin View Post
If we're going to continue the off-topic discussion, then I would suggest that an abbreviation is just that: a short version of the term used to save space and/or time. And in that sense, it served it's purpose. It may not be the official abbreviation designated by the BDA, but I doubt that anyone here was confused by the poster's meaning. The intent to communicate was successful. It's not being used in an official communication, so the official abbreviation isn't necessary. But while we're being pedantic, neither BR nor BD are proper acronyms. Technically, an acronym is a word formed by the abbreviation, that is typically pronounced as a word (like laser). But many people use the term acronym for simple abbreviations, just like many people probably abbreviate Blu-ray as BR. So I have no problem if you want to call BR and BD acronyms in an online forum. I know what you meant.
Darin -- Let me say again, I understand that the level of crankiness, which the misuse of "BR" engenders in me is a bit obsessive but that misuse is still wrong, wrong, wrong! More seriously, I hope that I have not offended you or anybody else with all of this. I like it here and with rare exceptions try to get along. Unfortunately, a few things bring out the worst in me.

Back to streaming for a moment, do you hate it as much as Laserfan and I do?
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post #2085 of 3776
5/28/11 at 7:02pm
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Back to streaming for a moment, do you hate it as much as Laserfan and I do?
I've used services like Hulu, YouTube, etc., for their specific purposes. But I've never used the streaming services from BB, Netflix, etc., as I have no interest in castrated BD or BR. BTW, I don't know if Blockbuster LLC has sanctioned "BB" as a "correct" abbreviation of Blockbuster, nor do I care. It is simply an abbreviation I used that I expect those reading will understand, much like my use of BTW. FWIW, I also occasionally use DTV for DirecTV, despite the fact that some will go into a frenzy insisting that DTV now stands for Digital Television, so we must use D* to abbreviate DirecTV. Which I find somewhat humorous, since there is no "star" in DirecTV like their is in E* and was in P*. And I doubt you will find any use of D* on DirecTV's site, unlike DTV, which is the official stock symbol of DirecTV. Everyone has an opinion on what is correct and what is wrong. I continue with the belief that if the reader correctly interprets what the shorthand stood for, then the communication was successful.
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post #2086 of 3776
5/28/11 at 7:11pm
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Originally Posted by R11 View Post
Really... after I read that I went and pulled up my online bank statement for the last couple months to make sure I didn't have any mysterious BB charges I didn't know about.


ron
Haha, I did the same thing!
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post #2087 of 3776
5/28/11 at 8:28pm
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Originally Posted by gwsat View Post
I think but can't swear you are safe. As I understand it, there is still no limit on how long you can keep a disc received in the mail. There are, however, charges for discs obtained in the store, which are kept beyond a specified time. Perhaps someone who has a better understanding of BB's rules than I can tell us definitively.
Currently, an in-store exchange with Total Access does not have a due date, as it counts as one of your "out" discs. If you pay to rent something then that has the regular rental terms on it, as in a due date.

Granted, anything can change.
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post #2088 of 3776
5/29/11 at 7:26am
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Originally Posted by Darin View Post

I've used services like Hulu, YouTube, etc., for their specific purposes. But I've never used the streaming services from BB, Netflix, etc., as I have no interest in castrated BD or BR. BTW, I don't know if Blockbuster LLC has sanctioned "BB" as a "correct" abbreviation of Blockbuster, nor do I care. It is simply an abbreviation I used that I expect those reading will understand, much like my use of BTW. FWIW, I also occasionally use DTV for DirecTV, despite the fact that some will go into a frenzy insisting that DTV now stands for Digital Television, so we must use D* to abbreviate DirecTV. Which I find somewhat humorous, since there is no "star" in DirecTV like their is in E* and was in P*. And I doubt you will find any use of D* on DirecTV's site, unlike DTV, which is the official stock symbol of DirecTV. Everyone has an opinion on what is correct and what is wrong. I continue with the belief that if the reader correctly interprets what the shorthand stood for, then the communication was successful.

Haha, Wonderful post!
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post #2089 of 3776
5/29/11 at 12:37pm
So everything seems to be pretty much back to normal these days for Blockbuster by Mail? I canceled my account back in March when things looked so bleak and went back to Netflix. But Blockbuster kept my Q and let me add to it so I've been adding new releases and they seem to get pretty much everything on release date. Blockbuster's availability of catalog blu-ray releases is far superior to Netflix and the kiosk vendors.
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post #2090 of 3776
5/30/11 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by CochiseGuy View Post
So everything seems to be pretty much back to normal these days for Blockbuster by Mail? I canceled my account back in March when things looked so bleak and went back to Netflix. But Blockbuster kept my Q and let me add to it so I've been adding new releases and they seem to get pretty much everything on release date. Blockbuster's availability of catalog blu-ray releases is far superior to Netflix and the kiosk vendors.
Almost. A lot of new releases that were previously listed as on order they now have. This week there was a delay with the new releases, but they became available on Friday. I bet there will be a delay with the titles coming out tomorrow too.
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post #2091 of 3776
5/30/11 at 3:25pm
I checked my queue (which is still on hold) and another 2 more Criterions that were unavailable became available in the past couple days... "Sweetie" and "Naked Kiss", plus a catalog title, "Jawbreaker".
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post #2092 of 3776
5/30/11 at 6:16pm
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Originally Posted by DJ Matt View Post
Almost. A lot of new releases that were previously listed as on order they now have. This week there was a delay with the new releases, but they became available on Friday. I bet there will be a delay with the titles coming out tomorrow too.
Alas, I'm not seeing the same kind of improvement with my queue. It still shows Papillon, Grand Prix, and Le Mans as On Order, although all three were released last week. Maybe they will crack loose tomorrow, I hope so.
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post #2093 of 3776
5/30/11 at 8:04pm
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Alas, I'm not seeing the same kind of improvement with my queue. It still shows Papillon, Grand Prix, and Le Mans as On Order, although all three were released last week. Maybe they will crack loose tomorrow, I hope so.

I don't have any of those in my queue. I would suspect you have a ton more catalog titles in your queue than I do. I have just a few including Taxi Driver (which just became available and shipped out Friday), Beverly Hills Cop and Babe. Beverly Hills Cop still shows as on order. I kind of wonder if BB will never receive some of the stuff listed as on order. I had Walking Dead season 1 in my queue and still do. It said on order, but now says unavailable. To add to our problems True Blood season 3 is now listed as on order. I was really hoping they would have this because it looks like Netflix won't be getting it anytime soon.
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5/30/11 at 9:41pm
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I don't have any of those in my queue. I would suspect you have a ton more catalog titles in your queue than I do. I have just a few including Taxi Driver (which just became available and shipped out Friday), Beverly Hills Cop and Babe. Beverly Hills Cop still shows as on order. I kind of wonder if BB will never receive some of the stuff listed as on order. I had Walking Dead season 1 in my queue and still do. It said on order, but now says unavailable. To add to our problems True Blood season 3 is now listed as on order. I was really hoping they would have this because it looks like Netflix won't be getting it anytime soon.

I couldn't mess around with BB or NF waiting for True Blood. I'll be at Best Buy to pick up my copy tomorrow.

My BB account is still on hold. I was going to reactivate until I saw that NF got I Am Number Four without the delay. I'll keep an eye on my BB queue to see when things are officially back to normal.
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post #2095 of 3776
5/31/11 at 6:53am
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Almost. A lot of new releases that were previously listed as on order they now have. This week there was a delay with the new releases, but they became available on Friday. I bet there will be a delay with the titles coming out tomorrow too.

Yep. I rejoined yesterday and 2 of today's releases I was hoping to snag, Biutiful & Legend, are showing "on order". One that I swore said "available" previously is now showing "on order", Beverly Hills Cop. Oh well.
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post #2096 of 3776
5/31/11 at 7:13am
The recent Criterion release of BLOW OUT is now showing as SHORT WAIT.
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post #2097 of 3776
5/31/11 at 10:35am
I will probably rejoin in a couple weeks since there will be a bunch of new releases in June that are going to be 4 week delayed at Netflix (Battle: Los Angeles, Just Go With It, Hall Pass, Red Riding Hood, Unknown, Adjustment Bureau, Cedar Rapids, Sucker Punch, etc) and the fact that several recent Criterion releases have become available. Hopefully they will work out the kinks and get the new releases out on Mondays reliably again.
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post #2098 of 3776
5/31/11 at 12:23pm
perry, I wouldn't be in any hurry to jump back into subscribing soon. There are still a majority of the major releases that aren't available in store and to a lessor extent by mail (drive angry, blue valentine, biutiful, I am number 4 (in-store) etc). I think we're still a couple weeks away from near normal availability. I do appreciate the free one day rental with a new release rental...the irony is they aren't getting the new releases in with any consistancy.
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5/31/11 at 12:47pm
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perry, I wouldn't be in any hurry to jump back into subscribing soon. There are still a majority of the major releases that aren't available in store and to a lessor extent by mail (drive angry, blue valentine, biutiful, I am number 4 (in-store) etc). I think we're still a couple weeks away from near normal availability. I do appreciate the free one day rental with a new release rental...the irony is they aren't getting the new releases in with any consistancy.

Sad to say, I have to agree that it would probably be premature to reactivate an inactive BB subscription right now. As you noted, there are still a bunch of releases that BB doesn't have, even now. I keep hoping that Dish will get BB's mess straightened out but they haven't done it yet.
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5/31/11 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by CochiseGuy View Post

Yep. I rejoined yesterday and 2 of today's releases I was hoping to snag, Biutiful & Legend, are showing "on order". One that I swore said "available" previously is now showing "on order", Beverly Hills Cop. Oh well.

They will probably become available later this week. The past 2 weeks BB has got the new releases, but they did not get them until Friday for both online and in-store.

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perry, I wouldn't be in any hurry to jump back into subscribing soon. There are still a majority of the major releases that aren't available in store and to a lessor extent by mail (drive angry, blue valentine, biutiful, I am number 4 (in-store) etc). I think we're still a couple weeks away from near normal availability. I do appreciate the free one day rental with a new release rental...the irony is they aren't getting the new releases in with any consistancy.

Most new release films are available now. BB did get I am Number 4 and Gnomeo & Juliet, however, they have yet to receive Blue Valentine. I asked about this title and I guess the studio pulled out from sending copies at the last second. Also, the free $1.99 or .99 cent rental you can get without any purchase. The only thing you would have to do to activate the freebie is to get a 2.99 rental first. Of course, most of what we rent is the new stuff anyway. Drive Angry will probably be available later this week if I were to guess and possibly Biutiful. I really hope this stuff gets worked out soon because I was told that everything should be back to normal and this was weeks ago.
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