Whining about stuff (i) [Netflix]
The other month, I caved in and signed up for the Netflix because of Sense8. Which you should all watch.
While poking at the dreadful interface by means of the Virgin tellybocker, which was more or less like trying to enter a long name into a highscore table on an old arcade machine with a shagged joystick, I discovered that the choice of other entertainments was pretty poor.
Later, I went and had a look at the thing on a different sort of computer, where we discover that the UI was differently horrible. I also found a handful of things that I thought I would quite like to watch at some time, so 'tagged' them (or whatever word one is supposed to use) and then beetled downstairs to view one or more of them on some kit with better speakers.
They were nowhere to be found. Which I think you'll agree is a bit poor.
I guess there is the vague possibility that my IPv6 tunnel is confusing things, but it is still beyond me why (for instance) all of Foyle's War is available to the upstairs computers, but not the downstairs kit. You would think that a nice English series of programmes would be available to a nice English IP address ('That's four octets of the Queen's IPv4, Timmy!'), rather than some dreadful foreign IPv6 malarkey routed by a set of bad sorts through an anonymous rack of kit handy for AMS-IX. Why am I not being given the option to view the complete set of Onderweg naar Morgen or Goudkust?
Because the military-entertainment complex is run by feckwits, I imagine.
While poking at the dreadful interface by means of the Virgin tellybocker, which was more or less like trying to enter a long name into a highscore table on an old arcade machine with a shagged joystick, I discovered that the choice of other entertainments was pretty poor.
Later, I went and had a look at the thing on a different sort of computer, where we discover that the UI was differently horrible. I also found a handful of things that I thought I would quite like to watch at some time, so 'tagged' them (or whatever word one is supposed to use) and then beetled downstairs to view one or more of them on some kit with better speakers.
They were nowhere to be found. Which I think you'll agree is a bit poor.
I guess there is the vague possibility that my IPv6 tunnel is confusing things, but it is still beyond me why (for instance) all of Foyle's War is available to the upstairs computers, but not the downstairs kit. You would think that a nice English series of programmes would be available to a nice English IP address ('That's four octets of the Queen's IPv4, Timmy!'), rather than some dreadful foreign IPv6 malarkey routed by a set of bad sorts through an anonymous rack of kit handy for AMS-IX. Why am I not being given the option to view the complete set of Onderweg naar Morgen or Goudkust?
Because the military-entertainment complex is run by feckwits, I imagine.