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11 Nov 2011 15:23 #107728
by ubarose
I recently added the MultiQ channel to my Roku and am loving it. It lets you create multiple queues for Netflix streaming. It only costs $5 per year and they give you one month free trial.
I was able to set up queues for each family member, plus several other helpful queues. So now when I feel like watching something by myself I don't have to browse through a bazzilion items added by The Man and the Spawn. You can sort your queues in various ways, such as by title and by genre. It also provides an easier way to browse by genre, and there are several other lists, like award winning movies and rotten tomatoes top 100.
The one downside is that the interface is slightly awkward in that when you want to watch something from one of your MultiQs it flips you into Netflix, so to get back to your MultiQ you have to exit Netflix and then go back into MultiQ through the channel screen.
I was able to set up queues for each family member, plus several other helpful queues. So now when I feel like watching something by myself I don't have to browse through a bazzilion items added by The Man and the Spawn. You can sort your queues in various ways, such as by title and by genre. It also provides an easier way to browse by genre, and there are several other lists, like award winning movies and rotten tomatoes top 100.
The one downside is that the interface is slightly awkward in that when you want to watch something from one of your MultiQs it flips you into Netflix, so to get back to your MultiQ you have to exit Netflix and then go back into MultiQ through the channel screen.
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11 Nov 2011 16:23 #107733
by Sagrilarus
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I am very close to dropping Netflix in favor of Amazon on Roku. $80 per year and I get some free books and free 2-day shipping thrown in.
The one thing holding me back is that Amazon's interface on the device is awful. It's cheaper and frankly we've kind of cleaned Netflix out movie-wise.
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The one thing holding me back is that Amazon's interface on the device is awful. It's cheaper and frankly we've kind of cleaned Netflix out movie-wise.
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11 Nov 2011 17:29 #107740
by jeb
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No Amazon streaming on iDevices = dealbreaker. I looked at my options too, when Netflix was fucking everything that moved. But iDevice streaming is critical in our house.
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11 Nov 2011 18:24 #107745
by MattFantastic
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The Amazon selection still looks pretty sparse compared to NetFlix too. Or am I just looking at it wrong?
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11 Nov 2011 18:26 #107746
by Ken B.
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I'm with Jeb, but in my case it's support on Wii and PS3.
If Amazon would get an app to work on either of those, and they had enough stuff my kids liked, I'd probably switch too. I've had enough of their fuckery, their movie selection has seemingly gone in the shitter rapidly, and I've found that even though we didn't use it a lot I liked the option of getting DVDs. But I sure as hell ain't paying $9 a month or whatever extra, that's stupid.
Hulu Plus is available on PS3 but you pay $8 a month...and still have fucking COMMERCIALS? Hey ho Hulu, go fuck yourself.
If Amazon would get an app to work on either of those, and they had enough stuff my kids liked, I'd probably switch too. I've had enough of their fuckery, their movie selection has seemingly gone in the shitter rapidly, and I've found that even though we didn't use it a lot I liked the option of getting DVDs. But I sure as hell ain't paying $9 a month or whatever extra, that's stupid.
Hulu Plus is available on PS3 but you pay $8 a month...and still have fucking COMMERCIALS? Hey ho Hulu, go fuck yourself.
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11 Nov 2011 18:29 #107747
by stormseeker75
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It's worth it, Ken. It's 2 breaks of about a minute each. If you use Hulu to cut the cord then you're really mopping up.
I desperately want to kill the cable, but I'm having a hard time doing it.
I desperately want to kill the cable, but I'm having a hard time doing it.
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11 Nov 2011 19:48 #107758
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Both have about the same number of titles now, and given our pretty limited tastes we've seen much of what Netflix has to offer. Gunless was entertaining, but other than that I don't think we've come across a new film we've been excited about in six months.
Netflix doesn't have It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. That needs to be punished.
Netflix also lumps all of the anime, all unrated, into one big fat line of films on the Roku. Half of those are incredibly unsuitable for 8 year olds, and the descriptions rarely clear things up. That's front and center for my kids to choose from so Netflix is a big slice of trouble in my living room. MultiQ provides a different interface but I haven't spent the time to configure to see if I can lock the kids out of the anime rape scenes.
Amazon's interface is just a shade bit better than ConsimWorld. There's no way in hell the kids will find inappropriate material on it, or anything else for that matter.
I refuse to watch Hulu+ because Jason Calacanas looked down his nose at me when I hadn't so much been introduced to him yet.
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MattLoter wrote: The Amazon selection still looks pretty sparse compared to NetFlix too. Or am I just looking at it wrong?
Both have about the same number of titles now, and given our pretty limited tastes we've seen much of what Netflix has to offer. Gunless was entertaining, but other than that I don't think we've come across a new film we've been excited about in six months.
Netflix doesn't have It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. That needs to be punished.
Netflix also lumps all of the anime, all unrated, into one big fat line of films on the Roku. Half of those are incredibly unsuitable for 8 year olds, and the descriptions rarely clear things up. That's front and center for my kids to choose from so Netflix is a big slice of trouble in my living room. MultiQ provides a different interface but I haven't spent the time to configure to see if I can lock the kids out of the anime rape scenes.
Amazon's interface is just a shade bit better than ConsimWorld. There's no way in hell the kids will find inappropriate material on it, or anything else for that matter.
I refuse to watch Hulu+ because Jason Calacanas looked down his nose at me when I hadn't so much been introduced to him yet.
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12 Nov 2011 16:43 #107820
by ubarose
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Sagrilarus wrote:
MattLoter wrote:
Netflix also lumps all of the anime, all unrated, into one big fat line of films on the Roku. Half of those are incredibly unsuitable for 8 year olds, and the descriptions rarely clear things up. That's front and center for my kids to choose from so Netflix is a big slice of trouble in my living room. MultiQ provides a different interface but I haven't spent the time to configure to see if I can lock the kids out of the anime rape scenes.
S.
You can set up parental controls on your Qs via the MultiQ website. It doesn't prevent kids from watching stuff that isn't in their Q via Netflix, but it will prevent them from putting stuff into their MultiQ. However, if you go in via an admin Q you can add stuff to other Qs. A warning pops up if it is has a rating that you filtered out from that Q . If you give your okay you can add it. If you have buy-in from your kids to only watch stuff that is in their MultiQs it works. I have buy-in from The Spawn, because she is very sensitive to certain things and doesn't want to watch stuff that disturbs her. She trusts us to to keep that stuff off her Q.
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12 Nov 2011 19:50 #107830
by Sagrilarus
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Virtually all anime is listed as unrated. I can prohibit unrated, but that throws out the stuff they're allowed to see as well. Not uncommon to stumble across a porn scene in anime titles.
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12 Nov 2011 22:49 #107843
by ubarose
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Assuming your kids are cooperative, you could filter out the unrated stuff on their Q. Have another pending Q that allows unrated stuff for them to put stuff in. Then you go through the pending Q and move the stuff that you approve into their Q.
I never had problems with The Spawn wanting to watch stuff that parents typically object to. She avoids show with violence, death and blood, and I never cared if she watched stuff with boobies or adult language. The problem I had was she wanted to watch really brain melting, godawful Disney Channel garbage.
I never had problems with The Spawn wanting to watch stuff that parents typically object to. She avoids show with violence, death and blood, and I never cared if she watched stuff with boobies or adult language. The problem I had was she wanted to watch really brain melting, godawful Disney Channel garbage.
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13 Nov 2011 01:18 - 13 Nov 2011 01:20 #107849
by Dogmatix
If they're streaming the japanese versions, even if dubbed, you might be hard pressed to find *any* series that hasn't aired on the Comedy Network without some sort of "fan service" ranging from basic nudity to straight hardcore. Even the stuff that was aired in the US when we were kids, other than maybe AstroBoy and Speed Racer, has nudity, sex, as well as some unbelievably bizarre, to the point of tentacle porn, shit in the original versions. (E.g., in the original version of Starblazers [or maybe G-Force; don't recall which now], the big bad guy is a hermaphrodite, which plays out in some odd ways in the series. The US version had to hack the ever living shit out of episodes to edit around it. Took me a quite a while to realize I was watching the same series I saw over the air on some UHF channel out of Philly when I was 8....)
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Sagrilarus wrote: Virtually all anime is listed as unrated. I can prohibit unrated, but that throws out the stuff they're allowed to see as well. Not uncommon to stumble across a porn scene in anime titles.
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If they're streaming the japanese versions, even if dubbed, you might be hard pressed to find *any* series that hasn't aired on the Comedy Network without some sort of "fan service" ranging from basic nudity to straight hardcore. Even the stuff that was aired in the US when we were kids, other than maybe AstroBoy and Speed Racer, has nudity, sex, as well as some unbelievably bizarre, to the point of tentacle porn, shit in the original versions. (E.g., in the original version of Starblazers [or maybe G-Force; don't recall which now], the big bad guy is a hermaphrodite, which plays out in some odd ways in the series. The US version had to hack the ever living shit out of episodes to edit around it. Took me a quite a while to realize I was watching the same series I saw over the air on some UHF channel out of Philly when I was 8....)
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13 Nov 2011 02:06 #107851
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I loathe laugh tracks.
For the moment I'm white-listing anime based on recommendations. They don't watch what isn't on the list.
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For the moment I'm white-listing anime based on recommendations. They don't watch what isn't on the list.
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13 Nov 2011 16:10 #107870
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Yep. That is pretty much what you have to do as a parent with books, movies, TV, etc. You have to either get recommendations from people you trust, check things out yourself, or watch stuff with your kids with the remote in hand to shut it off. The Spawn got so used to us fast forwarding through the scene where Bambi's mother dies, that she still does it herself even though she is long past the age where it would freak her out.
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Sagrilarus wrote: I loathe laugh tracks.
For the moment I'm white-listing anime based on recommendations. They don't watch what isn't on the list.
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Yep. That is pretty much what you have to do as a parent with books, movies, TV, etc. You have to either get recommendations from people you trust, check things out yourself, or watch stuff with your kids with the remote in hand to shut it off. The Spawn got so used to us fast forwarding through the scene where Bambi's mother dies, that she still does it herself even though she is long past the age where it would freak her out.
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15 Nov 2011 04:18 - 15 Nov 2011 04:23 #107931
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I missed this post last week when I read through here.
In a word, the Japanese publish some freaky shit. I've been watching Last Exile with the boys which is incredibly tame by anime standards, and even it has a character specifically designed to be gender-controversial. My current project has me in the LGBT community and I'm working with no one that's even remotely in the kind of mindset this Last Exile . . . guy (ahem) exhibits. I'm not too up tight about this kind of thing. It's not like I'm worried the boys are going to see a boob go by. I'm worried they're going to see a six year old girl raped by an octopus. You can't rule that out in this genre, and damn near every one of them is listed as "unrated." If they were they'd be "graphic violence, nudity, weird-ass shit." Roku/Netflix has a genre line right on the interface to offer the stuff up for the kiddies.
I may have watched Starblazers at the same time you did on the same channel. I lived east of Harrisburg and we pulled Philly stations. I used to come home from school looking forward to the next episode, likely around 1980.
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Dogmatix wrote:
If they're streaming the japanese versions, even if dubbed, you might be hard pressed to find *any* series that hasn't aired on the Comedy Network without some sort of "fan service" ranging from basic nudity to straight hardcore. Even the stuff that was aired in the US when we were kids, other than maybe AstroBoy and Speed Racer, has nudity, sex, as well as some unbelievably bizarre, to the point of tentacle porn, shit in the original versions. (E.g., in the original version of Starblazers [or maybe G-Force; don't recall which now], the big bad guy is a hermaphrodite, which plays out in some odd ways in the series. The US version had to hack the ever living shit out of episodes to edit around it. Took me a quite a while to realize I was watching the same series I saw over the air on some UHF channel out of Philly when I was 8....)
I missed this post last week when I read through here.
In a word, the Japanese publish some freaky shit. I've been watching Last Exile with the boys which is incredibly tame by anime standards, and even it has a character specifically designed to be gender-controversial. My current project has me in the LGBT community and I'm working with no one that's even remotely in the kind of mindset this Last Exile . . . guy (ahem) exhibits. I'm not too up tight about this kind of thing. It's not like I'm worried the boys are going to see a boob go by. I'm worried they're going to see a six year old girl raped by an octopus. You can't rule that out in this genre, and damn near every one of them is listed as "unrated." If they were they'd be "graphic violence, nudity, weird-ass shit." Roku/Netflix has a genre line right on the interface to offer the stuff up for the kiddies.
I may have watched Starblazers at the same time you did on the same channel. I lived east of Harrisburg and we pulled Philly stations. I used to come home from school looking forward to the next episode, likely around 1980.
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15 Nov 2011 04:31 #107932
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Dogmatix, that was G-Force (or Battle of the Planets in Canada). The young kid (Cheop in BotP) spoke on some weird fucked up English with glottal stops and clicks. In the Japanese version he had a potty mouth allegedly.
My kids and I watched Death Note which is pretty tame. It's about a dude who "finds" a notebook in which if he writes the name of some one they will die. A fellow student and a mysterious investigator team up to trackdown the killer.
My kids and I watched Death Note which is pretty tame. It's about a dude who "finds" a notebook in which if he writes the name of some one they will die. A fellow student and a mysterious investigator team up to trackdown the killer.
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