The official Netflix thread.
 

All those that have the great service called Netfix sign up here. Feel free to post your queue and all activity as you see fit.

Currently have
1. Choke

Most recent viewed
1. The Wackness

DVD Queue (13) List Order Movie
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Burn After Reading
Eagle Eye
Sex Drive
Beyond the Mat: Special Edition
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger
Mama's Boy
Death Race
Pride and Glory
In Bruges
RocknRolla
Lars and the Real Girl

I'm not gonna post the 410 movies in my queue. Here is what I have out:

Movie Title Est. Arrival
1. Punisher: War Zone 03/25/09
2. RocknRolla 02/12/09
3. The X-Files: I Want to Believe 12/13/08

They need to sort out the xbox live part of it for Europe the cunts, I'd happily pay a fee for unlimited movies streamed on my xbox.

Have used a similar service here but I always forget to send things back/take ages to watch them so it becomes pointless.

The last one I used I wasn't arsed finding the dvds to send back so ended up ringing the bank and cancelling the card I used since I was broke and didn't need a card for a few weeks. probably still looking for money off me

Had Netflix for awhile. Loved it. Made me lots of $$$ selling copied movies. Switched to Blockbuster Online so I could also get in store rentals along with 1 free game rental each month. They then dropped the free game rental, upped the monthly price and cut my plan down as well. I dropped Blockbuster and then tried Netflix again because they started the 360 streaming shit. My connection was too slow and it took like 10 minutes for it to start and the picture was extremely grainy. I canceled my trial.

netflix thru my 360 is grainy too.

It's your internet service provider then, because mine is DVD quality.

It's much more limited than the DVD service. I mean, I'm not complaining, but I use online to supplement my mail service. the digital service sometimes has problems, and on top of that, the selection is limited.

Not to mention my biggest gripe, some series are only partially available on instant.

I queued up Roar a while back, because it was recommending me Heath Ledger stuff and I was curious. Then I saw it was available for Instant, so I signed up. And then like half the episodes are "on disc only."

Okay, so not so bad, since I was only casually interested. Then I watch the first 12 eps of "Dead Like Me" and find out the last two eps of season 1 are disc only.

But there's still a ton of stuff to watch on there.

And for the quality issues, D-Mac's right as far as I can tell. Even when it's pulling the "your connection's slowed" on me, I'm getting DVD quality. I'm watching the Office (US version) in HD right now, and the picture's significantly better than broadcast HD. It's not QUITE BD quality, but it's still solid.

Ah thought you had access to everything in the library, not that it matters licencsing issues make it unlikely to be seen at all here.

I love netflix. It is one of the greatest things ever.

I watch whatever justintv tells me to watch.

Trying out this PlayOn Media Server that can stream Netflix to the PS3. Haven't had any problems with buffering or freezing, but the program costs 40 bucks.

Tversity should be able to do the same thing for free.

Ended up putting my netflix on hold for time being. Feel like all I do is watch tv these days. Seeing as I have my regular shows, I download stuff, and had 3 netflix dvds coming all the time it was brutal. Half the time it seeme dlike I was forcing myself to watch the things I rent. Dunno, we'll see how it goes, it's only on hold.

Allow justintv to tell you what to watch.

justintv is poor quality.

Netflix has a $7.99 instant watch only plan now. Will be switching to this, since I have the Blu Ray plan and it's going up another buck, and they have that 30 day waiting on new Blu Rays bullshit. I just download Blu Ray rips to my PS3 now anyway with the occasional buy.

Been watching Invader Zim. Awesome stuff.

got an email they are raising my price a dollar.

Dont really use the que too much. Mostly use the instant streaming.

just ordered my LG Wireless BluRAY yesterday. can't wait to get Netflix now.

I use mainly streaming but I like knowing the disc option is there. Usually the discs sit there for weeks untouched, but when I want to go through a TV series or see a movie that isn't on the streaming service it's nice to have.

I have like 120 things in my que. Always end up adding more than I watch.

It's a rumor, but I read somewhere that they might be phasing out the DVD by mail alltogether and just be a streaming service.

That has been a rumor for a long time now. I think eventually they will go full streaming but not anytime soon

They'll go 100% streaming when they can get the vast majority of their catalog on it, which they aren't even close to yet.

They've implied that as their eventual goal, and now everyone is acting like it's going to happen next Thursday.

I don't mind the concept, but if they do this, they need to have a bigger library and stop with the bullshit of pulling series. I assume it has to do with licensing, but if they insist on going digital, they need to make the content available.

If they had a larger selection, I probably would never use the DVD service anyway.

I recently added the entire series of Doctor Who to my queue. It's gonna take a while to go through over 100 DVDs...

Got a free week trial of Hulu Plus and it sucks. Basically the same shows that are on Netflix and they STILL have commercials in them. :n:

I prefer getting the DVDs in the mail to streaming the movie right away. It makes me feel like I've earned it.

The cartoon or the live action version?

Is there a website that gives a list of what is to come up soon on the instant streaming?

Okay Netflix is the Shit
 

I always thought it was dumb as hell to pay for access to tv shows/ movies when they could be had from sites like hulu or torrent sites, but after getting blazed and being able to watch Season 1 of 30 Rock essentially on demand in HD, I'm a fan of the service.

Do you guys use Netflix often? Think it will be worth it in the long run?

Netflix instant stream is awesome. I have it both on my Samsung blu ray player and my PS3.

Watched every episode of "My Name Is Earl."

Working on "That 70's Show" now.

I love it.

Absolutely love it. It's on demand content done right. I've seriously not watched anything except RAW on TV for the past two weeks. Everything else has been Netflix.

Kind of expecting the price to go up, but not for a while. I also hope that the companies keep embracing it and don't force "tiers" onto Netflix or something, or just entirely take their libraries down from it because they see it as a threat. Though I don't see that being a huge problem for me, as the vast majority of what I watch is at least 5 years old, and by that time (5 years after it's aired/released, at least) the content is pretty much past its time of real revenue streams outside of DVD releases.

The one downside is that I'm paranoid that I'm going to cause a RROD to my 360 because it's on like 500% more than it had been in months (I tend to get into something on Netflix in cycles).

If they raise the price they should add video games.

Love Netflix. Signed up about 5 months ago and it's been smooth sailing ever since. I watch on my Xbox, iPod Touch and I'm hoping to get a Blu-Ray player with wi-fi to able to use there also.

I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix buys up Gamefly, or starts a competing business (with which they'd easily overtake Gamefly). But I'm talking strictly for streaming. Could easily see that going up to something like $20, and honestly it'd be worth it.

I love it, but was also "forced" to go with it. My local Blockbuster Video folded up and I wasn't gonna use Redbox. It pays off in the long run. I use my PS3 for instant viewing.

<font color=goldenrod>My gf came over one night and we watched a movie through Netflix on my 360 via her dad's account. His account is now stored by default so I've been mooching ever since. :o

It's awesome. Since then I've watched both seasons of Blue Mountain State and the first six seasons of The Office. You go through them ridiculously fast.</font>

Ha! That's exactly how I am. If it wasn't for sports I don't think I'd watch t.v. at all.

With all my favorite shows like House, Breaking Bad, Lost when it was on... I usually am so caught up in school/work that I miss the episodes when they originally air and end up catching bits and pieces via Hulu. With Netflix I can pretty much just take a weekend to chill and catch up. So refreshing.

House is steaming now? Shit I wish I still had it right now.

Nah, think he meant on Hulu.

Honestly, though, there are only two things that I watch that aren't online (legally), either through Netflix, Hulu or some other site. Mythbusters and RAW. If it weren't for those two shows I honestly wouldn't have any need for cable.

Netflix is absolutely amazing...

The problem for me is though, I use the streaming service so much that I rarely take advantage of the DVDs as much. I've had a movie sitting at my place since August from Netflix actually.

Yeah. The only reason I even have the 1 DVD at a time thing is just in case I want to watch something which isn't on streaming. And it's just a dollar more so it's more than worth it.

I caved in this year. Totally worth it.
Awesome selection of just about everything.

It's pretty good but they had a lot of stuff that I wanted to watch in the heat of the moment aka didn't want to wait for it to be mailed to me and didn't want to bother to torrent but all they had was the sequel to it.

How does this work? Doesn't it totally kill your bandwidth?

I believe ALL of the seasons of Saturday Night Live are on Netflix now. :cool:

Also new are The Cosby Show, That 70's Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Roseanne.

Every single one of the "local favorites" for me is a Bollywood movie. I don't understand. Does every member of the semi-existent Indian population in my town constantly stream Netflix movies or something.

I just watched an F'd up "documentary" called Paul McCartney is really dead: The last testament of George Harrison. Total bollocks but entertaining.

Netflix is making me mad. Just trying it out for the first time and I tried to watch like 10 movies and none of them are on there...

Shutter Island
Robocop 2
Rounders
Batman
The Dark Knight
Inglorious Bastards
Mean Streets
Californication Seasons
The Color of Money

... I don't knowwwwwwww just bad luck I guess

Shutter Island was on there like a month ago. Also most "big"/recent movies aren't either, like you are obviously not gonna find Star Wars on there.

All the Robocop movies are on there, m8.

Pretty sure the first season of Californication is on there too.

Not for me....

Shutter Island, Batman, Robocop 2, Mean Streets, Californiacation are all on instant for me. It might be a regional thing. Thunder Bay might not be updated on their Netflix availability.

It sounds pretty good, but I won't cave in yet. And why aren't 'big movies' on there? Isn't the point of Netflex being able to watch their huge library of movies on DVD. BR or streaming?

cave in? it's $10.

Maybe because of Canada or that I using a PS3?

Probably Canada. Makes no difference what device you have.

It's Canada. They have a lot of limitations like that, such as no ESPN channel.

$8.99 if you stick to just streaming. Damn good deal

The fact that Netflix offers a streaming-only option is proof that the terrorists have won

If you watch one movie on it a week, you're paying 2 bucks a rental. I would assume the average person is going to use it way more than that. Is the economy really that bad?

We have TSN which has all the hockey coverage I want and need.

I'm pretty dissatisfied with what they have available. All new releases are like 5 years old. No 24, no sopranos, no dexter. I'm not really interested in shitty movies from the 90s so I'm going to cancel.

What are you talking about no 24. I'm watching Season 3 Episode 9 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm right now

And I' pretty sure Dexter is on there too. It being on there is why my sister won't shut up about the fucking show

Maybe it's only available to U.S. customers.

One time my friends and I had this discussion about TSN. We were like, we always see hockey highlights from TSN. What could it mean. And one guy was like oh, it has got to mean Toronto Sports Network because they always show the Leafs. And I was like noh man, they show like every Canadian team. Then my friend was so clever and was like it has to mean THE Sports Network and we all laughed hahahahaha funny. Then he looked it up and that is what it means :|

What minute were you on when you posted this

Must be a canadian thing cuz they are unavailable. I can see them, but they are unavailable...WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!?!

Being Canadian

lol Canada NETFLIX is horrible. yea, we get 24 and Dexter. HBO has not signed on, so don't expect Sopranos, Broadwalk Empire, Wire etc.....

not having the newest movies really doesn't bother me at all. there's a ton of shit on there (streaming) that I've never seen before. could be totally random stuff or popular movies from the 80's/90''s/2000's I've never seen.

I might do that, I just don't like having to make sure my bank has enough funds in my checking account on top of the stupid Chase fee.

Started watching skins. Great show.

Goes without saying.

9:27

But who's counting :shifty:

So I signed up, figured if I get annoyed I can always cancel. So how often do they update the movies/shows.. ect

Maybe monthly? Although most movies stay on there a lot longer than that.

It's some kind of rotation, but there is usually a new batch of stuff at least once a month.

The thing about the new releases not being on there, I think is more about the companies wanting to control their own content as long as they can. Recently they started or are going to start giving currently in theaters movies on PPV channels/On Deman for like $30. But even on Netflix, a lot of movies have a month wait between release and being available on DVD. Obviously to sell as many as they can.

As I've said before, I think we may see a "Premium" Netflix in the future where you get this whole back catalog, but also you can pay a premium either per title or per month to see more current releases, just when they're released.

Either way we will eventually see them, whether on Netflix or somewhere else online. It's going to happen.

Netflix Canada is fucking gaaaaaaaaay

I'll tell ya one thing I love about Canada. Trailer Park Boys. Hilarious show.

Diesel mac being an idiot as usual.

Trekkies rejoice. EVERY Trek series is now on Netflix with every episode of every season!

You got...

The Original Series
TNG
Voyager
Enterprise

Awesome :cool:

The old Twilight Zone looks great in HD.

sweet! I'm not a die hard Trekkie but I'm looking forward to seeing some of the shows I have never seen.

Disney era Power Rangers are up.

Fox Kids era X-Men and Spidey are up.

Let Me In (American version of Let The Right One In) is up, and don't pout - the original been up as well.