Netflix Rules

[DannyBoy]

So they just lowered my monthly rate from $17.99 to $16.99 and now I can also watch up to 17 hours of movies right off their website.  I might check it out and see what its like.  There are over 3000 movies/tv shows that you can watch and its supposed to start playing in seconds too.

[Ben]

So they just lowered my monthly rate from $17.99 to $16.99 and now I can also watch up to 17 hours of movies right off their website.  I might check it out and see what its like.  There are over 3000 movies/tv shows that you can watch and its supposed to start playing in seconds too.

i saw the commercial for watching the movies online. Now since you use your TV as a monitor, you could watch them on there, but what res would it be?

[JMann2380]

So they just lowered my monthly rate from $17.99 to $16.99 and now I can also watch up to 17 hours of movies right off their website.  I might check it out and see what its like.  There are over 3000 movies/tv shows that you can watch and its supposed to start playing in seconds too.

i saw the commercial for watching the movies online. Now since you use your TV as a monitor, you could watch them on there, but what res would it be?

The million dollar question...

[DannyBoy]

I wouldn't ever use it for a movie that were available on blu-ray or HD-DVD (or even an action flick).  For example, I watched the Last King of Scotland a couple weeks ago (a dvd, GASP).  Thats the type of movie where you really don't care what it looks like.

As far as the res, I bet it'd look like shit on my TV.  I'd probably watch them on my laptop (and thats what they intend).  I've read that its actually pretty good for streaming, but not quite as good as a dvd.

The video quality is surprisingly good. Shockingly good, really. After about a minute of initial buffering, I was playing full-screen video over a standard cable modem connection. I encountered no stuttering or buffering pauses, ever. You can pause the video, rewind it, jump ahead, or quit altogether.

[JMann2380]

Can you save them?

[DannyBoy]

I highly doubt it.

They offer TV shows too, I could see using it a lot for that.

[JMann2380]

Man that would be perfect if you could save them and say they expired once you actually watched them!

[DannyBoy]

That would be cool, but they're probably too paranoid about it being cracked (and you know it would be on day 1).

[Ben]

I wouldn't ever use it for a movie that were available on blu-ray or HD-DVD (or even an action flick).  For example, I watched the Last King of Scotland a couple weeks ago (a dvd, GASP).  Thats the type of movie where you really don't care what it looks like.

As far as the res, I bet it'd look like shit on my TV.  I'd probably watch them on my laptop (and thats what they intend).  I've read that its actually pretty good for streaming, but not quite as good as a dvd.

The video quality is surprisingly good. Shockingly good, really. After about a minute of initial buffering, I was playing full-screen video over a standard cable modem connection. I encountered no stuttering or buffering pauses, ever. You can pause the video, rewind it, jump ahead, or quit altogether.

on the TV commercial it shows a laptop sitting on a coffee table with the movie playing on it and playing on a  big screen behind it. I think thats their way of saying you cant ony watch them on your PC

[DannyBoy]

 

[Ben]

hit the wrong button. fixed

[Pete]

Man that would be perfect if you could save them and say they expired once you actually watched them!

there are firefox plugins to do this 

[Curt]

Ive been thinking about getting netflix this winter and doing some borrowing akamaking myself a copy as well. A friend of mine has it and says its the $#it. Any complaints about the mail turn arround time or other complaints?

[DannyBoy]

Ive been thinking about getting netflix this winter and doing some borrowing akamaking myself a copy as well. A friend of mine has it and says its the $#it. Any complaints about the mail turn arround time or other complaints?

If you go crazy, like I did in the past, they will throttle your account.  I would get 2 movies, copy both of them and send them back the next day.  Another movie the next day, and so on.  Basically, in their eyes, I was renting too many movies so it would take longer for movies to ship out and be received.  The copy thing gets old, you don't end up watching half of the stuff you burn.

Now I just rent Blu-ray and HD-DVD, it works out real well.  I maybe watch 2-3 movies a week, and they're always delivered and received (on their end) in a day.  Works out great, and definitely worth $17 a month (when a typical new release would cost almost double that)

[chevyjk33]

Ive been thinking about getting netflix this winter and doing some borrowing akamaking myself a copy as well. A friend of mine has it and says its the $#it. Any complaints about the mail turn arround time or other complaints?

My wife just switched from Netflix to Blockbuster.  Seems like half the stuff she wanted was in a mile long waiting list.  I think she waited too long to try and get new stuff.  She likes to still be able to run down the street to the store too if its an impulse to just watch something.