All Star Trek TV Coming To Netflix 272
tekgoblin writes "This is great news for all the Star Trek fans out there. Starting in July, every episode from every Star Trek series will be available for Instant Watch over Netflix. Right now Star Trek TOS is available for Instant Watch, and the movies, but that's all. Soon it will all be here for our viewing pleasure."
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Re:Simply (Score:5, Informative)
No ST cartoon.
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And nothing of value was lost.
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No ST cartoon.
True, but you can already watch that here [startrek.com]. Brief ads, but no Netflix subscription needed.
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And even in the USA, I just checked. In spite of what the article says, the original is NOT available, at least not yet on my account. It's still DVD only.
The only version of Trek available for Instant Watch on my USA account is the 2009 movie.
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Another case of an incomplete summary. TOS, TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise will be added to Watch Instantly sometime in June. DS9 will be added sometime in October. They'll be available for at least two years, with the option to extend it at the end.
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Netflix: The Wasteland (Score:2, Interesting)
'Star Trek' is not available but you might enjoy these titles.
'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' is not available but you might enjoy these titles.
'Star Trek: First Contact' is not available but you might enjoy these titles.
'Star Trek: Nemesis' is not available but you might enjoy these titles.
'Star Trek: Generations' is not available but you might enjoy these titles.
'Star Trek: Insurrection' is not available but you might enjoy these titles.
'Star Trek: Evolutions' is not availab
In my daughter's word(s) (Score:2)
Awesome!!
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
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Awesome!!
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
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Wasnt Star Trek Enterprise the worst?
Also, as someone who started watching from TNG, would it be a good idea to watch TOS?
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I saw TNG before seeing TOS.
Sure the graphics are rubbish - and it looks very low budget (especially in the beginning), but the storylines are much nicer, and Kirk punches tons of people in the face.
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TOS is great, as good as TNG.
Enterprise is better than DS9, by far.
Enterprise is shit though, DS9 went from good to worse than shit.
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Enterprise and DS9 both relied on serial plotlines. I didn't like the time-traveling alternate-future sparkly-people stuff in Enterprise, but I did like a lot of the one-off episodes. It was not shit.
My favorite was the Tholian Web episode "In a Mirror, Darkly;" they could have built a whole new series around that.
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There's nothing wrong with a deep and complicated story, but the problem with DS9 is that they completely botched the execution of the premise. I would have loved to see a series focusing on the reconstruction of Bajor. No dominion, no wormhole, no Chosen One junk, no hostile shapeshifters, no screw-TNG-continuity-let's-go-to-war-with-the-Klingons crap, and no technobabble.
Take some ambivalent Federation prime-directive fans and mostly-peaceful isolationist Bajorans who both want the Federation far away fro
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Sad. I've never understood the hate for Voyager. I have a soft spot for it.
Then again I'm not a hardcore Trek fan. I do enjoy it though, like most people who frequent Slashdot and have a general interest in sci fi.
It depends on what you want from your TV (Score:3, Informative)
TOS is a series that was originally meant to be more like the Twilight Zone, different characters each episode. It still keeps the characters from having a ongoing story. There is no story arc spanning episodes although the book versions do tie the episodes together. The stories themselves are close to Sci-Fi in that they explore the now by just slightly changing the now to make us re-examine the facts. Simple example: Rather then examine black vs white race issues, the race issue is shown by two people who
Re:It depends on what you want from your TV (Score:4, Informative)
Wonder what ever happened to him.
Oddly enough, you'll occasionally find Wil Wheaton posting on Slashdot. Or at least he used to (Slashdot username: CleverNickName). I think he still does some acting gigs here and there though I haven't seen him in anything in a while now.
Re:It depends on what you want from your TV (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, and don't forget The Big Bang Theory. Classic.
WHEATON!!!!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQvyo3o5kc [youtube.com] for an example. :)
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wil is also on fark.com (from what I understand).
his latest rant about the TSA was worth reading. yes, even old movie/film stars will get hassled by the grope squad.
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Having the STs on netflix is long overdue and very welcome. I see it as a milestone in a way, solidifying NF as THE vast repository of our media content.
Aaaaaaand
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Voyager went back into space but dumped all sense of ethics at the spaceport. Kirk would never have stood for it. Janeway did anything to get home, including mass genocide. Star Trek, how far can you fall.
Examples please? my knowledge of Voyager isn't encyclopedic, but I've seen most of the episodes and seem to remember that Janeway _always_ rejects quick ways of getting home if it means breaking ethical codes. Hell, that's the main tension of the entire series: how to deal with the problem of being so far
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I had the exact same impression.
No, I loved Enterprise (Score:2)
I loved Enterprise, except for the ending, and was sorry it was cancelled.
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Wasnt Star Trek Enterprise the worst?
Also, as someone who started watching from TNG, would it be a good idea to watch TOS?
No, it was actually pretty good. As with any ST, it had really good episodes and really poor ones. I do think it had a lot of potential that was waited - the whole "we're the first explorers from Earth" could have been played up more rather than the time war; especially had they explored our first contact and relationship with other species prevalent in "later" series.
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If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
Meh I wouldn't say that. DS9 isn't THAT bad. Takes a bit of getting used to, and sometimes you feel like wanting to stop hearing Bashir's annoying accent, but otherwise its not that bad. Its just.. different.
Agree, Garak was awesome (Score:2)
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Awesome!!
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
How can we trust you? Your taste in Trek is abysmal.
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How can we trust you? Your taste in Trek is abysmal.
Maybe he is a vorta.
Heh. Poor eyesight!
Re:In my daughter's word(s) (Score:4, Interesting)
That's a highly subjective opinion.
My personal ranking is:
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I'd put Voyager at the bottom, personally. It had cheese factor ten. For its time it is by far the cheesiest. TNG at the top; most successful implementation of the original formula, and the best talent by far. (Nimoy is still my favorite Trek actor, but taken as a whole...) I thought Enterprise was better than most people thought it was. I guess Nazi aliens don't bother me so much when we STILL have plenty of real Nazis running around on this mudball. Shit, the Bush family fortune came from funding the Nazi
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DS9 FTW, mainly because it didn't rely on made-up-on-the-spot fake science or holodeck claptrap to drive/resolve the storylines.
All of Star Trek relies on fake, made-up science. Warp drive, travelling through worm holes populated by gods?
The important aspect of good Trek is that it explores/confronts human/societal problems/issues. If that's done as a murder-mystery in a holodeck setting or a non-space set in a hut on a planet, that's not really a failing. Sci-Fi tricks its readers/viewers into dealing w
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That's because the female Vulcan, T'Pol, finally gets naked in Season 3 episode 15 "Harbringer".
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I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
DS9 can come in handy. Last night, for instance . . . I had a terrible time getting to sleep.
You cannot kill the good stuff... (Score:2)
Despite the CBS moronic policy on Star Trek, Roddenberry's legacy will prevail!
The suits there think we still live in 20th. Century! (no Fox intended)
KA'PLAH!
In related news... (Score:2, Insightful)
All Star Trek TV already on the Pirate Bay.
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But not available for instant streaming tailored to your connection's bitrate.
I'd rather stream it via netflix legally (which I already pay for), rather than hoard it illegally on a drive I then have to buy and maintain.
Re:In related news... (Score:5, Interesting)
Unfortunately, as a Linux user, I am not allowed to stream Netflix because of their (or the studios) rampant paranoia. So I am not a Netflix customer. I guess having less customers is better than someone maybe copying the stream.
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I wasn't blaming Microsoft, I was blaming Netflix, and the various copyright holders that control them. Your own Roku example illustrates that there's no technical limitation to streaming on Linux (Roku, IIRC, runs Linux). I already have a nice HTPC running Linux. As you point out, I could by another piece of hardware to enable me to spend more money to subscribe to Netflix, but frankly, it's just not worth it to me. If someone expects me to be their customer, they should treat me like a customer, not like a pariah.
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I have a Linux HTPC because it was the easiest to get to work with what I wanted *and* I didn't see a compelling reason to pay Microsoft a license fee when my primary use is *easier* in linux. I could buy more devices, but you know, I like my home theater to be straightforward and the more devices I am forced to buy the more that goal diminishes. I have one HDMI port, that has my HTPC connected. If I wanted another HDMI device, I'd have to upgrade my TV, stereo, or buy an HDMI switcher. Depending on wha
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Oh please, that's quite possibly the lamest excuse in this day and age. 2006 called, they want their lame Micro$haft excuses back.
Seems to me the GP wouldn't use Netflix unless it supported his chosen format. How is this an excuse? A person doesn't need an "excuse" to not subscribe to Netflix, they needn't buy extra hardware to please others,
So anyway, he explained his reasoning. This is a discussion, after all. People state opinions, explain their rationale . . .
Get over yourself, and look in to getting that penguin tattoo removed from your ass.
And other slashdotters make rude comments like this. It's not clever, it's just mean-spirited.
I also don't want to use Netflix because I use Linux. And I use Linux to make m
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It's mean spirited because his post is redundant and nauseating clichéd. I make no apologies.
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The Xbox 360 is a poor example. You have to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold in order to stream Netflix. Who want a subscription to have a subscription?
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If I have enough lead time, I rather download a movie or even rent it from Redbox. Netflix streaming is OK as long as you don't need to back things up or don't put the Wiimote down so the "B" button is accidentally pressed or it isn't the 1 time in 10 that the internet is running slow and your viewing experience is constantly interrupted by buffering.
I support what Netflix is doing but they need a better player. Of course, there's only so much they can do with the Wii that I use (though I would cerainly be
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Serious question: Do you have it working on your phone or tablet? Can you hit it from computers outside of our network, like from work?
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Seriously: I have my collection of stuff at home available from wherever, however, via Subsonic.
It works well enough for pocket-sized video (and works great for audio), and it's free. I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs the other day with this using 3G connection on my Droid
That said, I also pay for Netflix, and my family watches a ton of streaming stuff that I myself would never bother with putting on the network.
Comparing a bunch of local storage (even if you can get to it remotely) to Netflix is like co
Re:In related news... (Score:5, Interesting)
> Not sure what netflix has over my NAS
1) It's legal.
2) The studios that produced the shows get some revenue which correlates to the level of interest people have in Star Trek, which encourages them to produce more material.
3) Netflix gets some revenue, which correlates to the level of interest people have in Star Trek and encourages them to continue providing Star Trek and maybe other sci-fi series.
4) The actors who worked on the series get some money via residuals, making Star Trek seem like a decent career move for other actors.
5) Paying $8 a month isn't a hardship and you're contributing to our culture by paying those who produce our entertainment rather than leeching and not giving back for what you receive.
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Sums it up nicely. For years we've been complaining that we'd gladly pay a reasonable fee for unlimited streaming, and not only does Netflix finally deliver that, it does it on more internet-enabled devices than any other provider.
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Sums it up nicely. For years we've been complaining that we'd gladly pay a reasonable fee for unlimited streaming, and not only does Netflix finally deliver that, it does it on more internet-enabled devices than any other provider.
Except it's not really unlimited (99.9% of us have download caps, enforced by our broadband provider) and Netflix's streaming service tends not to include the majority of the content most of us would consider good (though that is slowly improving).
This is coming from a Netflix subscriber that does use Netflix streaming on a regular basis.
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No, it really is unlimited. If your ISP caps you, that isn't Netflix's fault.
I wasn't assigning blame, just stating a truth. In pragmatic terms, there is a limit.
Not caring about level of interest in watching (Score:2)
You presume it's not legal content on his NAS. Perhaps he purchased the DVDs and ripped them (in a jurisdiction where ripping is allowed).
How do you recommend coming by the money to move to such a jurisdiction, and then moving again once the United States pressures that jurisdiction to change its copyright law in U.S. movie studios' favor?
Wouldn't seeder/leecher / download statistics also correlate to the level of interest people have in Star Trek?
Those who finance Star Trek don't give two craps about the level of interest in watching Star Trek or any other TV series. They care about the level of interest in buying a series, whether the buyer is a TV channel buying a syndication package, a video on demand provider such as Netfli
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You presume it's not legal content on his NAS.
Given the context of the thread starting off with Pirate Bay already had it, I think it's a reasonable assumption.
Wouldn't seeder/leecher / download statistics also correlate to the level of interest people have in Star Trek?
Now figure out how to buy lunch based on those download statistics. I do wonder though how netflix pays for streaming rights and by extension how closely studio revenue maps to viewer interest.
Except that anybody who's been reading about Star Trek is more likely to get the idea that people loathe Star Trek.
Well, I think both you and the parent post are off the mark. Actors by and large will be available for whatever the studios pay to do. I don't think actors will be specifically financially drawn to Star
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The pirate bay can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. You never know how fast your downloads will be, what will be available, or what the quality will be. Yes, I have used it in the past myself. I still do occasionally for stuff Netflix doesn't have, like Disney for example. But since I now have a decent paying job, I have a Roku with Netflix that streams 1080p beautifully over my wireless network. Much easier to deal with IMO and not that expensive.
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It took me a month to download every episode of Voyager due to limited availability.
Want to change it? Go to Congress (Score:2)
why should I have any moral obligation to pay them again to watch the same episodes just in a different format?
Because you don't believe strongly enough in a rollback of abuses of copyright law to deny yourself, pick up your Pirate flag [pirate-party.us], and run for the House in your congressional district. (I don't blame you; neither do I, at least not yet.)
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All Star Trek TV already on the Pirate Bay.
Streaming is superior.
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A) you need a online computer
You need one to download too.
B) you need to pay
$150,000 per work whose copyright was infringed.
C) READ A HARDCORE
What does this mean? Is this some image board meme? Google isn't helping.
With internet pricing in canada or the usa its too pricey with the isp gouging
The ISP will gouge whether you stream or download.
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amount of content doesn't mean crap if you can't filter through it.
Netflix lets you watch any of 100 4/5 star rated comedies or 1000 3/5 star rated comedies when you feel like a comedy.
Want action? Plenty of that.
Romance for those lonely friday nights? Check.
It's a pain to find new good stuff to watch. Rather just have it shoveled to be based on my previous ratings of films.
And lets face it, who is going to pre-download a season of Hercules? How would I have found that if not to watch an episode on demand r
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I wasted all my time downloaded every episode.
Wasted your time? All you have to do is click on the download link at a torrent site. You can do that during the span of a single commercial break. After that your computer does all the work. Look at it this way: The parent poster spent $100/season for DVDs. That's $700. You saved $700 in two minutes. That's $2,100/hr or $4.2M/year. Not a bad take home pay.
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Not that I needed much of an excuse to re-watch TNG and DS9, but it's nice to have one.
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Starting in July, every episode from every Star Trek series will be available for Instant Watch over Netflix [...] the original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise
*Ahem*, what happened to The Animated Series [wikipedia.org]? It's almost entirely awful and is more or less non-canon, but it's still a Star Trek series.
(The article does go on to say "all five live-action Star Trek series", but the bit I quoted and the title are not technically accurate. Of course I have to point out such an inaccuracy, given the topic.)
Remastered TOS (Score:2)
Not worthy (Score:2)
If you don't already have all the box sets, figurines and toy communicators then you're not worthy to be on slashdot.
Time to look up that ONE episode.... (Score:2)
There was one episode of ST:TNG from season 1 that I never, ever got to see the beginning of. No matter how many times it popped up in syndication and reruns, I always tuned in just after the title sequence.
I'm not sure how, but I believe this is related to the phenomenon where, when there's a popular syndicated show you almost never watch, on the rare occasions that you do tune in you always see the same episode.
Good! Add TNG and the X-Files... (Score:2)
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Finally! (Score:2)
I've worn out watching DVR'd reruns of ST:TNG and I've been annoyed that DS9 hasn't been on streaming or syndicated re-air or anything other than a DVD somewhere. I'm looking forward to seeing that series again.
Excellent, maybe I'll buy NetFlix now! (Score:2)
I got busy during ST:DS9, right at the height of the war with the Dominion.
I keep meaning to catch up via BitTorrent, but I've ah, procrastinated a bit.
Networks take note. (Score:2)
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allstepisodes.com [allstepisodes.com]
Cheers,
Ian
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Now that's an awesome site. Bookmarked.
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Also, I'm sure in typical Netflix style, before you get 20% through it, you'll start getting notices that the content will expire in a couple weeks.
Well, 104 weeks.
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Great news if you live in a part of the world where netflix is available. Attention /. editors, the tubes are global and so are your readers.
A. The US is not small.
B. We get stories about your lovely CCTV system.
C. It's only THIS year that the US will have parity with the UK when airing Doctor Who.
Git.
Oh quityerbitchen' (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, not every story on Slashdot, or on any site, needs to concern the entire world. In particular Slashdot is a US site and the US has a significant Internet using audience, so US related stories are of interest.
It in no way harms you to have some US news on the site. Indeed if it bothered you that much, I wouldn't think you'd come here. Slashdot has many US centric or US only stories.
Personally I think you are just being bitter because Netflix is a toy you can't have. Here's a hint: This is not Slashdot's fault, and not even Netflix's. It is the fault of your law makers and the media industry. Netflix would love to expand everywhere as that is just more money for them. They have expanded to Canada recently, but it is still problematic. They wanted to expand to the UK in 2004, but all the red tape stopped that.
If you want Netflix, let your politicians know that they need to stop with allowing the media companies so much control over distribution.
However don't cry that the US has it.
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Great news if you live in a part of the world where netflix is available. Attention /. editors, the tubes are global and so are your readers.
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Morons.
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Are people going to endlessly rewatch the few decent episodes of this camp space opera?
Yes, Mr. Anonymous Doofus, some people will.
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I wonder if we are in store for HD versions of the episodes? I've heard that atleast with TNG the scenes with cgi were rendered in standard def. 35mm for the character scenes which is do-able.
No, AFAIK the special effects on TNG were mastered on video. The majority of the show was shot on film, but transferred to video for editing and the addition of most special effects.
This means that even if the original high-resolution source film remains intact, any "HD" transfer of TNG would still have to redo the effects since even the "originals" only ever existed as SD video- AFAIK there aren't (and never were) any higher quality versions.
Given the craptastic quality of 80s NTSC video, there's no way you could "clean" or upscale them so that they looked like anything approaching HD- they even looked crap at SD (*)- and more importantly so that they didn't stand out like a sore thumb against the higher quality rescanned film footage.
I'd think that most of these scenes the effects could be redone by someone in their basement compared to 1987. It is star trek they should let the fans add the effects back in. They would do it for free to get their name in the credits.
That sounds nice, and I'm sure that there are many skilled fans who'd do it for free. However, I suspect it's not as simple or "free lunch" for the studios as that.
For one, there's coordinating such efforts, ensuring that (e.g.) the style of effects being done by different teams have a consistent (and not jarringly different) style.
And if people are working for free, how far will they accept being told what and how to do things by the studio? What if their personal fanboy view of how things should be done or what should be concentrated on disagrees with that of the studio? (No, what hardcore fanboys want and think should be done with a show isn't always the best from a general audience point of view- indeed, pandering to the self-indulgences of obsessives can sometimes damage the general appeal of a show and destroy what made it great in the first place).
And will such people be working in their spare time? What if the studio needs X done for release in 18 months time, but some guy working in a particular area can't spare the time from work? Of course, they could pay him... which starts to blur the line between employees and free contributions anyway.
So it's not as simple as you might think.
(*) I always used to wonder why the likes of TNG looked so "soft" and generally bad- the same problems that I could see with US-based video shows- when earlier US film-based shows looked okay. Turns out that the older shows were shot and edited on film, but that at some point during the 80s there was a trend towards shooting on film but transferring to video for editing. Apparently, the BBC etc. used their own film-based prints of older shows, which obviously wouldn't have suffered from NTSC video's defects, but they clearly couldn't do this with video-edited shows. And believe me, even watching TNG on a bog-standard moderately-sized colour television set in the UK, the difference in quality was obvious.
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Considering this is about Netflix *streaming* which doesn't currently act like that, a rant on the state of DVDs (rented or not, they do the same crap if your dvd player actually honors the 'no skip' requests in the media, which some don't) is a bit off topic.
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It amazes me that you, and an amazingly large number of Linux users, see an obvious shortcoming of Linux as a problem with Netflix, and other content providers. The pattern seems to be beating ones chest for being a Linux user, a criticism of other OS', a justification of piracy, advocation of local storage, a criticism of streaming in general, and a veiled attack on ISPs. I have one word for you: DENIAL.
If you were a Netflix executive reading the comments by Linux users here, would you not conclude tha