Box movies, internet streaming and me without my pirating.

I've apparently gone back to the redbox 5 times this week. Email tells me so.

So when the consoles got ahold of netflix I was intrigued, but I mean come on.... I'm an internet pirate. I don't need no stinkin' legitimate discs.
Then a terrible tragedy befell my little town of Dougopia, population this guy.

My 2tb hard drive, she died.

At last count she was about 3/4 full, of movies. That was, needless to say, a ton of movies. I had tv shows, entire series of shows, all sorts of movies, bluray movies...I just.... there were a lot.

I went into denial for a few weeks, saying I could fix it. (For those computer geeks out there, the arm ripped the disc internally, for those non-computer geeks- bad news bears) Couldn't be saved. So I decided to cut my losses and move on with my life.

Begrudgingly I went to a redbox. Now lemme stop ya right there, I'm not promoting Redbox specifically, nor did they pay me (ALTHOUGH THEY TOTALLY COULD IF THEY WANTED TO). Conversely, both my theatre and my movie rental place are owned by a certain corporation.... strange....

To the point. I'm not promoting them, I've tried the Blockbuster one as well, and well, Redbox has it down better. $1 movies. Even if I go 30 times in a single month I'm only out $30. Not terrible. So I'll rent a few movies until I've watched basically everything they have to offer and I'll be done for the week. (Renting at least what I haven't seen). I should also mention I love renting a movie from one part of the county or state, and returning it to another. I imagine somewhere it confuses the hell out of some customer service person somewhere.

So maybe like 3 movies a week, and I'm done with you redbox. until next week.
(I watch like a movie a day, get off my back, it's not that I have a ton of time, it's that I enjoy watching a movie before bed. Look, don't make this into something, we all do weird things before we go to bed, or when we're in the bathroom or something. LOOK STOP JUDGING ME, I THOUGHT WE WUZ PALS)

ahem.

So. ps3 and me have been together a lot these last few days, so when it said "hey we have netflix, wanna try for free? I said. Alright new beginnings, since my.... hardriv... *sniffle*...

Now this ain't going into some big to-do about Netflix. If you use a computer, and you're not an internet pirate, and you're a decent person you probably know the general concept, great. I really like it. I think. I dunno, it's a lot to take in. At last count I owned about 500+ dvds, so.... netflix is a different beast altogether (nextflix is a different beast).

I think, and this might be a broad generalization here but that's what we're good for...

NINTENDO PUTTING NETFLIX ON THE Wii-
THE SMARTEST CHOICE A GAMING COMPANY HAS EVER MADE.


Ever.

You take a wildly successful product like the wii, you attempt to get people to centralize their home entertainment around that system, and you throw them netflix? You're going about it exactly how you should.

Will there be dvd support for the Wii? There already is.... sorta, but just give it time for it to become popular. Any gaming company putting Netflix on their console is just solidifying it's place as the central unit for any household. Put a Mac link on a Wii, or make it able to check Gmail and you're on your way to ruling the world. Apple Tv? Google Tv? Sure, but you have to buy new things.

Streaming movies onto something you already have? That's the way to go. Turn the Wii or PS3 or 360 into a DVR, and whichever one does that first will make an even bigger leap forward. Motion controls are fine and good, but really look at what's selling, and what made a huge reception when it was released? Streaming movies. Gaming companies, listen up- Figure out how to make peoples lives easier by using your console in new and different ways, figure out how to allow people to focus their entertainment center around your console (integrated multi-speaker digital audio systems on consoles?), and you'll quickly see your gaming console become an entertainment console for the whole family.

Then from there you release the nano-machines and propaganda and start controlling our brains! Or just allow me to stream the office onto my ps3, meh, whichever.