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Netflix out of sync for many people

 

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Amazon.com: Customer Discussions: Netflix out of sync (audio/video) on my Kindle Fire. I have watched Sliders and before that Family Ties and audio and picture were out of sync. I did some research into this and it seems to be a problem for many people. Also many of the titles are out-of-order and have bad encoding. What is an alternative to Netflix?

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Anyone wanted to be like Alex Keaton?

Michael J. FoxI am watching Netflix and the Family Ties episode “Speed Test”. In this episode Alex was trying to be perfect and used drugs to get good grades and score well on his tests. Alex did many stupid things on the show, but I seemed to ignore them as a kid.

Now watching the show Alex seems more like a jerk than a role model. He was intelligent, could be funny, and seemed to do well with women. I know he was written to be the foil of the good characters in his family, but he seemed to take a perverse pleasure in being the bad guy.

Now I’d rather be more like myself. Role models seem kind of silly.

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Are watching old films hard to view?

Cover of "Flash Gordon - The Purple Death...
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I sometimes watch Netflix at my friends house and I have repeatedly tried to watch older films. I tried to watch one today from 1940 called Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. After five minutes I had to give up. It was just too stupid to watch.

I think that watching a movie should have a surprise in its plot. I don’t mind bad special effects, poor acting, but it absolutely has to have an interesting plot. People often complain that movies are bad, but it seems to me that movies have always been bad. No, I’m not talking about all movies, but it seems unavoidable that in entertainment at least, quality is not going to be in the majority but the minority.

So I’ve come to the conclusion that no longer will services be popular because of the number of items. The Wal-Mart approach. It will be popular because it curates things-The Apple approach. Perhaps the best thing to make customers happy is to have more intelligent recommendations, and less filler.

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