Netflix

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:44 pm

I've also heard of multiple peeps watching 1 account several different places at once. Not sure what is up with that.

If I weren't so lazy I could test it myself, now.

And to add my own content, trying to watch Netflix on hotel internet can suuuuck. Once 8pm hit, my bandwidth must have dropped to a trickle because with stops to buffer every 4 minutes, it took about 70 minutes to watch a 22 minute tv show.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:08 pm

Free hotel wifi sucks, cuz people use it.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:40 pm

Yeah, people are the worst.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:28 pm

More people on Netflix than on Comcast.

http://consumerist.com/2011....st.html

Sort of a strange metric, granted.

I still say Netflix is going for massive penetration into the American market ahead of bandwidth caps, which are arguably aimed at damaging Netflix.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:10 pm

If netflix had live ESPN, I'd have it.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:12 pm

By the way, tested watching Netflix on multiple devices last night. Worked fine. TV and PC were both streaming.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:13 pm

Wack.

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:14 am

There's a chance that's something that will stop working once the Family Plan is in place.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:16 am

That will bug me. Instead of arbitrarily applying download caps like an ISP, they'll be applying device caps.

Post by **Leisher** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:58 am

By the way, tested watching Netflix on multiple devices last night. Worked fine. TV and PC were both streaming.

Ditto. I was running it on the PS3, and the wife was watching something on the iPad.

I've also seen no indication that I'm limited to a certain number of devices...?

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:38 am

So they're going to up the cost of the service in order to let you maintain the same functionality.

If they grandfather that only for new users I won't be ticked.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon May 09, 2011 8:29 pm

Netflix isn't interested in taking on cable companies over bandwidth caps.

http://money.cnn.com/2011....dex.htm

That's exactly the opposite of what I thought they were doing, based on WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is pleased with his company's massive growth, but he fears that getting too large will start "an Armageddon" with cable networks.

Welp, unless they slow down subscribers, cable companies are going to take steps, and/or we're all going to have downgraded video quality in our streams. How do we slow down new subscribers? Raise streaming plan rates.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon May 09, 2011 8:48 pm

That didn't sound like a retreat to me. The bit about not clashing was specifically about new up-to-the-minute content, not bandwidth.

It sounds like posturing, like they're getting lined up with the "we are just a little company don't hurt us big mean cable man" rhetoric because they know things are about to start getting ugly.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:18 am

The cable companies can suck my left nut. They're the ones that make me pay every month for signals I never tune into. Half-assed industries positively invite pissed off ex-customers to come in and run the incompetents out of Dodge.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:42 pm

Sony is apparently pulling movies from streaming.
overly long url

Now is certainly the time for Sony to look like d-bags to their customers.

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Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:52 pm

It's hard to piece out exactly what is going on there from that snippet, but it sounds like Starz might be the d-bags on this one, and Sony is forced to do this because of their contract with them. I think.

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:14 am

Agreed. I think Starz probably had that clause in because they're trying to protect their market, which Netflix will obviously destroy.

In other Netflix news.

Honestly, this could suck for those with the ability to hear if every movie and TV show must be given the CC treatment before it can be streamed.

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Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:25 am

From what I've heard about them, the deaf are the biggest asshole bastard fuckers of the handicapped world.

The subtitled karate flicks I've watched recently have had subtitles, and they worked fine, but a couple months ago I watched Let the Right One In and somehow the subtitles kept slipping behind the black bars that go over and under a film when it has a more extreme aspect ratio than the shape of your TV. All of a sudden you'd see the top 3% of a letter peeking out from under the black bar, and I'd have to stop/restart to get the words visible again. Did it about 30 times through the entire movie, because it was a good movie.

Anyway, as long as you can turn them off in the audio options that the 5.1 stuff has, I don't care. I can't imagine they would force subtitles on everyone.

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Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:04 pm

We must have equal access to the biggest provider of streamed entertainment.

What? Why? Who says? Fuck you.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:49 pm

If the worst shit you got going in your life is that your streaming movies/shows aren't closed captioned, then your life must be pretty fucking easy.

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