find the closest Netflix Address and ship them in a regular envelope.

 

Yea, I know the "summer" timeline.....but it's nearly mid-August...

 

Summer doesn't end until 21 Sept...

 

This has been bugging me over the past few months. As most of you know, I am a total movie whore. I typically have the 2 bluray plan but since my home remodeling began and I can't use my plasma TV, the PS3 has been hibernating and I've switched to the 3 DVD plan since I basically am residing in my bedroom while the rest of my house is getting new travertine.

It's to the point where I've been going to Blockbuster lately to get Losers, Kickass, Bounty Hunter, etc. Furthermore, unless I time my returns exactly so that my next disc is shipped out on Monday or Tuesday when new blurays are released, I'm usually in for a long wait until the disc becomes available.

This could be related to living in HAW however.

I wonder if I should switch to the Blockbuster plan. For a comparable fee, I can get the same # of discs, plus be able to rent PS3 games and be able to turn discs in to the store and take a new movie off the shelf.

My concern is the turn around time for new discs. Right now with Netflix, it's a 2 day turn around which IMO is very good. If I mail a disc out Monday AM, I will have a new disc by Wednesday.

Thoughts?

 

My wife had been after me for some time to join and so about a half year ago, I said for her to go ahead. I have to admit, their service is next to none... as in great. We have been very pleased with them. I only wish I'd thought of this first.

 

Rick, did you ever consider Hulu Plus or are you strictly movies? Tons of TV shows streamed through your PS3 for $10/mo. All the eps of that TV show too.

 

Hey brotha, I do watch TV series but only when they are released on Bluray. I will deliberately wait until shows such as Lost or Nip/Tuck are released on Bluray. How is the resolution on Hulu?

 

i still need to sign up for this.....

 

Well nothing beats Blu Ray. The HD should be pretty good though. I don't have Hulu Plus so I couldn't tell you so you might wanna check reviews should you be interested. Netflix HD through my PS3 looks pretty damn good though so I can't imagine Hulu Plus being that much different.

 

Hurry! They still have pr0nz...

 

Summer came early this year............Netflix app for iPhone is up today!!

 

...and the app works like a charm....resolution is great on my 3GS.
It's pretty cool how you can pick up where you left off watching....no matter what device you are using.

Downside: No DVD Queue managemen How they can't put this into the app is beyond be...."Instant Queue" is all you get.

 

I've been using Netflix for years. Extremely good service, customer services is great too. Return DVD's on a Monday, and receive replacements within 2-3 days.

I have the Roku device for streaming, works ok, but my Panasonic DVD BluRay player streams Netflix much better. Video quality is mostly excellent.

Also, there's a great Iphone app called PocketFlicks.

 

Ended up telling them the envelope came empty...they sent a duplicate, and sent both back that same day in the same envelope so I didn't have to deal with mailing in something myself.

 

Only thing that gets sometimes is streaming. I stream through my 360 and occasionally, it'll have fits and go back and forth between super clear HD to really shitty looking standard def, and then sometimes somewhere in between.

I don't know if it's netflix, the 360, or the internet connection. It says it's the latter but I'm not sure why that would be the case. I have a fairly fast internet package.

 

It's your connection.

I stream through my xobx all the time and it works great. Those occasional times when the net is bogged it flips around.

 

It's your connection.

I stream through my xobx all the time and it works great. Those occasional times when the net is bogged it flips around.

 

Shit happens, it's why i still don't see streaming media replacing physical media yet.

 

I have used netflix for almost 11 years now! ha ha ha.
I've seen them try many different styles of envelopes trying to protect discs. They've always gone back to plain paper - guess it's not worth it.

I've stayed with netflix basically due to their selection. New releases may get bogged down, but hell, older movies are generally better anyway (imho). It has been worth it for the selection + convenience, even if it wasn't necessarily the 'cheapest option'.

Back when they started they only had one shipping center - in california. So you were looking at a 7 day turnaround. So I was 8 out, so I could watch a movie every 2-3 days. There would be roughly 2 at my home, 2 on the way there, 2 in processing, and 2 on the way to my house......

Oh, and a recommendation for you: Keep extra envelopes at home, because sometimes you get torn envelopes and can't reuse them. Sometimes just stick two dvds in one envelope and mail it back, and keep a couple just in case.

- Frank

 

I have an Insignia streaming Blu Ray player but I had to exchange the first one because the card was so bad. I couldn't d/l firmware to it and the streaming was so buggy that I couldn't even pause it without dropping connection. Then when I exchanged it, it worked like a dream. However, since your connection fluctuates as opposed to mine that was piss poor then yeah you can probably rule out your 360. But doesn't that mean that even your wired connected devices have spotty connection?

 

Rejoined....My son is watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on the Ipad now.

 

Alright so since a lot of you have had netflix for a while, what are the good movies on the online streaming? I haven't heard of most of the movies, so its hard to choose sometimes. Any suggestions in the online streaming movies?

 

theres no review or anything when you look at the movie description?

 

There are reviews, but I dont want to go reading the reviews, I'm just seeing if there are recommended movies from you guys.

 

i see, i dont have it so

i supposed you could just do a quick check at rotten tomatoes and or imdb.

 

not just online movies but tv shows, anime, other stuff. i watched crash the other day.

 

havent heard of them?

there are literally thousands of instant movies...

they even have a top 100 list... most of which were huge box office hits...
once you start using the service enough, it TELLS YOU what you would like to watch... lol

take a look around the site.. your streaming device doesnt have all of the movies you can watch.. sometimes you have to add them through the site.

 

Wait, what?!

How would I know if I can add a particular movie to stream it?

 

^ it says either 'play' or 'add to instant queue' if you can stream it. otherwise it only says 'add to dvd queue'.

 

easy man

ANY movie on the website that has the "play" button.. will pop up an "add to instant queue" button when you hover with the mouse.

the website has ten fold the amount of movies, and popular movies as your device currently shows.

just find one you wanna watch and add it!

 

[QUOTE=Rockstar21;12355816]easy man

ANY movie on the website that has the "play" button.. will pop up an "add to instant queue" button when you hover with the mouse.

the website has ten fold the amount of movies, and popular movies as your device currently shows.

just find one you wanna watch and add it!



ohh lol I knew that

I thought you were saying something else haha

 

There you go. Iron Man and Star Trek. Great start of your adventure. Plus I'd recommend watching 30 Rock, Weeds, and Californication for TV shows.

 

hope you know that you can add your friends to like a buddy list... and recommend movies for them to watch... pretty cool feature...

i love the Wii streaming feature...

 

We watch movies with our friends over xbox together.. It even puts us in a little theater setting... Very cool feature.. And we can chat about whats goin on.

 

+1, I also have PS3, but it's not as good.

burning movies is the best thing about netflix though, I just burn my movies and convert them to my iPod. I have about 2,000 movies/TV shows burnt to mp4 for my iPod for those long trips.

 

^^ What are you using to burn?

 

you must be downsizing them like a mofo...

one good quality mp4 movie is like 3-500mb.
my HD quality are usually 700mb-1GB.

 

hey! love my netflix! used to have blockbuster online and found it just kept getting higher and i just kept on getting less! now with netflix i just pay $8.99 a month plus sales tax, get one movie at a time as often as i want for as long as i want and have access to over 20,000 movies and tv shows to have streamed directly to my tv set instantly. what's not to love?

 

people with cruddy ISP's or slow internet

its an all around great, great deal.

 

So BB online was teh suck? Not as much content for higher price? Did you still go to the BB video store to rent movies? Just curious. I can't get a lot of first run movies on Netflix which sucks.