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RallyMonkey:
I've never had any trouble with Watch it Now. Silverlight was a really easy installation. I never have any problems with buffering for the movies, but I do have a fairly fast internet connection, so I can't be certain how it fares on slower connections.

As for throttling, I've never heard of any issues with it, nor had any issues myself. I watch a lot of rare independent movies, and my dad watches all of the latest blockbusters, and movies on our queues are almost never out of stock, and when they are, they've always been in stock with-in a few days. My dad has been getting major releases, such as Inglorious Basterds and Star Trek, in our mailbox on their release day.

pilsner:
When I was using Netflix they did it, and they actually admitted that they did it and claimed it didn't violate the service agreement.  It was only an issue when I had 3 movies at a time and was consistently returning them same day or next day.  We'll refrain from speculating what that was.

jimbunny:

--- Quote from: ruyi on 20 Dec 2009, 23:44 ---Also yo grammar nerds I can't figure this out:

"I'm one of the few people who hasn't gotten a Netflix account yet"

Should it be "hasn't" or "haven't"? Like, am I supposed to think of it as "I...haven't" or "one...hasn't"?

This is very important TIA.

--- End quote ---

This one bugged me, so I looked it up. "who hasn't gotten a Netflix account yet" would be something called a relative clause, in which the relative pronoun "who" should - according to traditional grammar, anyway - refer back to the antecedent "people," which is plural, giving us the conjugation "who haven't." However, usage studies show that, in cases like this, most native speakers want the verb to agree with "one," which is singular. Since traditional grammar has for a long time been out of vogue with almost everyone who studies this stuff for a living (though it unfortunately still holds a lot of authority almost everywhere else), I think we can safely say that either way is fine.

What does TIA mean?

pilsner:
It means Ruyi is a lady nerd.  Nothing we did not already know.

jimbunny:
I looked that one up, too. I think it means "thanks in advance."

Just wanted to make sure it didn't mean Transient Ischemic Attack, or something. You know, like she was trying to warn us of a medical emergency.

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