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Quickflix discount code for 10 free DVD rentals!
Posted by banger@epgstream in Random Thoughts, Recommendations on May 29th, 2009
Following their mediocre Quickflix discount code offer last week, IceTV have secured a “rickhart” worthy trial code for 10 free DVD rentals over 30 days!
This new discount code let’s you experience the Quickflix “Movie Lover” subscription (valued at $26.95/month) and gives you access to 3 DVDs at a time, for a total of 10 DVDs per month.
If you’re really serious about your movies and want even more value for money, it might be worth checking out Bigpond Movies who are offering you 12 DVDs for only $29.95/month (or 14 DVDs per month with a 12 month subscription).
Bigpond (37,000+ DVDs) gives it away at only $2.14 per DVD compared to Quickflix (36,000+ DVDs) at $2.70 per DVD! Only for the serious DVD copying watching household!
Anyway, visit QuickFlix and enter the following code to get your free 10 DVD rental offer!
icetv10free
Quickflix discount voucher for 2 months free DVD rental!
Posted by banger@epgstream in Random Thoughts, Recommendations on May 20th, 2009
Looks like IceTV have wangled a gift voucher code from our friends over at QuickFlix.com.au! Now it’s not just any ‘ole discount code, it’s a 2-month free DVD rental code! Before you get all excited, check out some of the other codes available!
I’m a regular user of QuickFlix myself and have been happy with their service and DVD selection. I’ve been able to score my favourite TV series and movies from yester-year plus some top new releases!
My only gripe is that you don’t get some of the more popular new-release movies right away so you have to wait a while before it arrives in the mail. I guess this is probably the one and only draw-back of the “no late fees” system that QuickFlix offers and that is that people hang onto the DVDs longer … meaning you have to wait longer for a popular new-release or children’s DVDs …
Gift Voucher Codes
- “dollardestiny” – 1 month subscription, total of 8 DVDs (8 per month).
- “rickhart” – 10 weeks subscription, total of 10 DVDs (only 1 per week).
- “icetv2mth” – 2 months subscription, total of 8 DVDs (only 4 per month).
- “NRMA_M4M211208″ – NRMA members get 1 month free + 10% off for 4 months!
How QuickFlix works?
Head over to the main www.quickflix.com.au website and find the “Start your FREE trial” section (right) and enter your discount code. From there you’ll be invited to register and enter your personal and credit card information.
Once you’re all signed up it’s a pretty simple process of building a queue of which DVDs you want, then waiting for them to be sent out by post! Generally you can get only rent 2-4 DVDs at a time, but when you’re finished watching one, just pop it back into the free return envelope provided and QuickFlix will send the next DVD in your online queue.
Not interested in QuickFlix DVDs? Then go for IceTV’s EPG discount!
If you want real value for money over the next twelve months for your Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), I’d recommend using the following IceTV discount codes when purchasing a new subscription from over at www.icetv.com.au:
- “qfx-12month” – $49 for 12 month subscription.
- “IceTVcelebratesHighCourtwin” – $60 for 12 month subscription.
- “petervogel” – $24 for 12 months subscription.
Final Word
I guess IceTV are starting to look towards the future and we might be seeing some new deals popping up (fingers crossed), but the best deal we can hope for is a permanently reduced EPG subscription rate! All I need is an electronic programme guide … I can get everything else off the net! 
If anyone from QuickFlix is reading this … Hurry up and get more copies of “The Might Boosh” in! Oh, and if you’re not from QuickFlix then try using multiple credit cards for multiple bites of the discount codes (shhhhhh…).
Knuthing better than The Art of Computer Programming
Posted by banger@epgstream in Random Thoughts, Recommendations, Windows 7, XMLTV on February 18th, 2009
I don’t know about you guys, but I find I have to throw out books and whitepapers from my professional library every few years. I recently tossed out a few old Visual Basic 6, Microsoft C++ and Microsoft .NET 1.x books which were taking up valuable space and came across some old friends …
Aside from my Bruce Schneier books, I really love my well-read “The Art of Computer Programming” (TAOCP) volumes by Donald E. Knuth and was happily side-tracked for a hour as I thumbed through some familiar chapters. Keen to see if there were any new Knuth editions published, I temporarily abandoned the library cleanup and checked on Amazon to find:
The Art of Computer Programming (Vol. 1-3) – US$149.18
3 updated editions, a boxed set and all hard covered to boot! How could I not buy these computing classics in the hopes that one day I could pass them onto my computer-literate grand-kids? Needless to say I promptly purchased these tax deductible references and then returned to the purging of my professional library.
Two weeks later (i.e. yesterday) this heavy boxed set turned up on my doorstep, and much to my surprise, in pretty good condition after being shipped from the USA. Ahhhh… nice white pages with no notes in pencil or dead mosquitoes stuck between the pages. Now I can take my tattered old TAOCP paperback copies to work and not worry so much if any “light fingered” work colleages are going to borrow my books for months at a time!
If you haven’t heard of Donald Knuth before then take some time out of your day to find out about his work. This is especially important if you want a better understanding of the “hows and whys” of software development fundamentals, or maybe just need to write lean, mean, industrial strength code.
Oh… errr… I finally sent off the sample Windows 7 EPG MXF data to Mike Hayton this morning for critique. I would have sent it last night but I was too busy flicking through TAOCP, Volume 2. Hopefully Mike will give it the thumbs up and we can start looking at releasing a new wmcGuideCompiler7 version!
