Im glad Cyber is over here and not on the THCZ board
Yea, Nanotech needs to stop scamming us with their delivery of working products and Ultraflix and whatnot.
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Kitt, if you bought an NP-1 off of the Nanotech or Amazon website, and it would appear that I did this since I own an NP-1, there is absolutely proof that the NP-1 and Ultraflix exists and that you can stream 4K using these two things
This is why I bought the NP-1...so I wouldn't have to have secondhand information to know what the NP-1 and Ultraflix is capable of.
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I don't like their limited selection. Admittedly, I'm more of a blockbuster kind of guy and I miss the days when they were not all closed essentially. One in my town recently closed. Used to go there and walk around for like an hour looking over the movies and would rent a few oldies and a new one usually. With redbox, you just get relatively new movies I think.
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Redbox is ridiculously convenient. There are something like 30 Redbox kiosks within a block of my normal route home from work. I can reserve a disk at any of them online, or just show up and hope they have it, then return it to a different one when I'm done with it.
They do have a streaming service, but as you might expect, it's not such a big deal.
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What's up with that Redbox? Are they offering movies by mail yet like Netflix?
Yea, cheap. But you gotta drive (or walk). What's up with that Redbox? Are they offering movies by mail yet like Netflix?
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No, not subliminally. When the movie loads up, it goes to like a content provider licensing page first. It has their business info listed and all kinds of info I haven't taken much time to read.
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Want to know what a Redbox Blu-Ray disk goes for nowadays?
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I remember walking into a blockbuster and getting 2 movies for 5 days for like 8 bucks or less.
$1.50/night. Movies just hot off general release. Granted, there are films, like Divergent, which aren't really worth $1.50, but still, that's obviously a relatively hot (not for long) video commodity.
Redbox makes money selling Divergent at $1.50 a pop. At 1080p Blu-Ray. I don't feel like I'm missing out on not seeing this second-rate Hunger Games wannabe flick in 4K.
There was a time, at the outset, when I bought every new Blu-Ray available, on the grounds that high-resolution turned crap into gold.
Know something? It's doesn't! High-resolution crap is still crap! Divergent in 4K wouldn't be a scintilla more entertaining.
What? Subliminally?
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based on the other company's name showing up as the movies load up
Ultraflix is a publicly available service to anyone owning an NP-1, yes?
I can understand if an NTEK executive whispered something to you over the phone, but what rationale do you have for not making public information that you gleaned from watching a movie on the device?
What company are we talking about here? What in the world makes it a secret, and how, pray tell, do they make this company's name come up, as if it was an accident or something?
Well, that is my "assumption" based on the new movies there in Ultraflix V1.2. Thanks for clarifying why I said it. The only way I can explain these movies is through my reasoning of a deal with a content provider. I don't see any other way, unless the movies are pirated...likely not, based on the content provider's name showing up as the movies load up. (also the cost of these movies, ouch)
I guess it's not so bad, when Sony and others charge like $7.99 for 24 hr for rentals of their 4K movies.
I remember walking into a blockbuster and getting 2 movies for 5 days for like 8 bucks or less.
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And how, exactly, did you come by this tidbit?
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I can tell you that there is already one very interesting content provider definitely dealing with Ultraflix that seems to not have been publicly announced.
Since NTEK publicly announces all sorts of "partnerships" that don't really exist, then accuses people who believed it and paid money into that belief of being gullible idiots (true enough, I suppose), I find it unbelievably hard to believe that there's an actual genuine content provider on the horizon that's willing to do actual business with them.
Personally, I don't think NTEK would even know, at this point, what an honest business dealing would look, sound, or smell like, but I'm still all ears.
Did they put some sort of teaser in the main Ultraflix menu? A Spiderman link that's sort of greyed out and doesn't really work yet, maybe? Something like that?
I'm not certain about content providers. I can tell you that there is already one very interesting content provider definitely dealing with Ultraflix that seems to not have been publicly announced.
And yes, there has been quite a lot of "pumping" discussion regarding the NP-1 on this board. But I don't let that influence my investment decisions. Once you make it through the filter, and see what I have seen on the NP-1, you see that there is some truth to it, but the truth is always different than what you'd expect.
When you say they have nothing to offer, I am assuming you haven't purchased the NP-1 and have not viewed Ultraflix. I'm not saying it's perfect and that it is the greatest offering of all possible publicly available (not yet) 4k channels etc. assuming those exist which they don't right now..by far, no. But it's a darned good start from the way I see it. My family has already "used" it for our purposes. /wink
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You'd still need a reason for content providers to deal with NTEK at all.
If you may recall, the original reason was supposed to be that NP-1 was the only game in town, and so content providers would be forced to go through them.
Now, they're just going to be another IPTV channel on a smart TV. Smart enough that it has an HEVC decoder built in, but that will be available to all comers for nothing. Anyone, like Hulu, who wants to run 4K content, can. Easily.
NTEK will have no advantage at all.
And no, don't come back and say they have mastering capability. Those machines and shops to turn film into 4K are thick on the ground in Hollywood. They have to be, because more and more cinemas, if not all, are now digital.
That means pretty much any movie you've seen in the last few years is also 4K-ready. If there's a market for it, which has yet to be proven.
But NTEK isn't really in the game at all, because they have absolutely nothing to offer.
I think it is wrong to suggest Nanotech is trying to compete with Sony and Samsung. I don't think that is what is going on at all. In fact, I think Nanotech is hoping Samsung and Sony will eventually let Ultraflix be ported onto new Sony/Samsung TVs (who knows) instead. So I'm not sure what you mean by a competition you suggest may be occurring (i.e. Nanotech begging Sony/Samsung not to produce universally compatible media players). That isn't the case at all I think. And I don't think anyone really cares now about competitive media players. It is the nature of hardware to fall out of use and it only makes you so much money. But an online video service...now that can just give and keep on giving. That's why Ultraflix was and is always the end goal here. And surprisingly, it already has "good" content. It shouldn't but it does lol. We'll see what the next few months brings it.
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I actually agree with you about Sony and Samsung. They will see the light sooner or later, when their sales take a hit from their selfish acts. They are hurting themselves by not letting 4K reach critical mass and don't even realize it yet.
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When you've invested the amount of money I have into Nanotech, $300 for a media player is chump change
And like I said, I have an advantage over others who do not have the NP-1 yet. I can determine from the box, what kind of investment I have made. I can check the internal operation. I don't have to rely on secondhand information like many others are.
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