Netflix Streaming Thread 2.0

We haven't had any issues with Streaming on the Xbox, for what it's worth. I've been soooooo happy ever since it started working great over our DSL connection a while back.
 
How can I improve the streaming quality on my Xbox? I have AT&T DSL (highest service), a wireless G router and ethernet bridge.

Should I upgrade my router? I can't go direct wired because the DirecTV is plugged into the wall next to the 360. I have at least 4 interruptions per movie every single time I try to use the service.
 
After all these years, Netflix and I parted ways two weeks ago. This whole debacle felt like they tossed aside the loyal customers that helped build them up from the beginning. RIP Netflix of yore. Quiks my ass.

I hope Amazon, or someother trounces them in the streaming market.
 
[quote name='Hibiwa']After all these years, Netflix and I parted ways two weeks ago. This whole debacle felt like they tossed aside the loyal customers that helped build them up from the beginning. RIP Netflix of yore. Quiks my ass.

I hope Amazon, or someother trounces them in the streaming market.[/QUOTE]

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I wish Amazon would get around to introducing an Android app and a iOS app for their streaming products.

There's supposedly an update in the works for the Tivo Premiere to add that in as an update to the Amazon downloading app for the Tivo, so that's on the way as well.
 
[quote name='shrike4242']I wish Amazon would get around to introducing an Android app and a iOS app for their streaming products.

There's supposedly an update in the works for the Tivo Premiere to add that in as an update to the Amazon downloading app for the Tivo, so that's on the way as well.[/QUOTE]
I wish they'd get it on PS3 and 360.
 
I just finished Sherlock Season 1 and loved it.

I think I'm going to watch Jekyll next, for those who have watched it, how is it?
 
Sherlock was great, but way too short. That's the thing about British shows, they usually have really shorts seasons.
 
[quote name='Clak']Sherlock was great, but way too short. That's the thing about British shows, they usually have really shorts seasons.[/QUOTE]

I actually think US television seasons are WAY too long. IMO, there should be 4 "television seasons" per year of 13 weeks each. 9-10 new episodes and 3-4 weeks for reruns/other programming. Each show airs 9-10 new episodes per calendar year - that's it. This would result in higher quality TV, IMO because writers wouldn't be forced to stretch things out to fill time. This would also mean we'd get to watch more shows because you wouldn't have to devote so much time to each one. It would require less of a commitment from the TV studios too so they wouldn't feel like they needed to pull the plug after 3 or 4 episodes of a struggling series.

Extras and The Office were done perfectly - 2 seasons, 6 episodes each and an hour long special to wrap it up. Eastbound and Down is also going to end perfectly since the 3rd season is the last one and there will be a total of 20 episodes for the series. These shows were great but they left you wanting just a little bit more (unlike, say, The Office (US) which has been dead for at least 3 years but they keep making new episodes).
 
Perhaps for some shows, but for others I still think it's much too short. I didn't realize it until this season, but seasons of Top Gear UK are really, really short.
 
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The split of Netflix into separate DVD and streaming entities is annoying, but amazon never offered DVD rentals in the first place. There is nothing to split up there. It's been suggested that the reason for the split is because the studios licensing for streaming material requires royalty payments even when users aren't streaming anything. I.e. Netflix needed to divide the two businesses up so everyone signed up is actually streaming - so they are only paying for users actually using the service. It's not a certainty, but perhaps is an explanation. That doesn't mean that Netflix couldn't have handled it better then they did. Myself, I still love the service and will be staying on. We use both DVDs and streaming, so we'll be keeping both.
 
So why not just say that? Businesses always try to hide the truth from their customers. I could accept that it was done for that reason.
 
[quote name='Clak']Sherlock was great, but way too short. That's the thing about British shows, they usually have really shorts seasons.[/QUOTE]

I think it was probably a couple of episodes short. I would've liked to see the newer version of Watson develop a little more before the Season was up. Then again there were essentially 6 episodes of a normal show, 3 one hr and a half movies, so it was good for a first season.

[quote name='Javery']I actually think US television seasons are WAY too long. IMO, there should be 4 "television seasons" per year of 13 weeks each. 9-10 new episodes and 3-4 weeks for reruns/other programming. Each show airs 9-10 new episodes per calendar year - that's it. This would result in higher quality TV, IMO because writers wouldn't be forced to stretch things out to fill time. This would also mean we'd get to watch more shows because you wouldn't have to devote so much time to each one. It would require less of a commitment from the TV studios too so they wouldn't feel like they needed to pull the plug after 3 or 4 episodes of a struggling series.

Extras and The Office were done perfectly - 2 seasons, 6 episodes each and an hour long special to wrap it up. Eastbound and Down is also going to end perfectly since the 3rd season is the last one and there will be a total of 20 episodes for the series. These shows were great but they left you wanting just a little bit more (unlike, say, The Office (US) which has been dead for at least 3 years but they keep making new episodes).[/QUOTE]

I agree, the networks that are doing this the best right now are AMC and USA. First seasons are usually much shorter anyway. Is Sherlock really considered a show with a season or a mini-series... or a continuous mini-series?
 
[quote name='thamaster24']I think it was probably a couple of episodes short. I would've liked to see the newer version of Watson develop a little more before the Season was up. Then again there were essentially 6 episodes of a normal show, 3 one hr and a half movies, so it was good for a first season.



I agree, the networks that are doing this the best right now are AMC and USA. First seasons are usually much shorter anyway. Is Sherlock really considered a show with a season or a mini-series... or a continuous mini-series?[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure really, I thought it was going to be a normal show, but the schedule is really weird. No new episodes at all for 2011.
 
[quote name='Viva Las Vegas']Has Microsoft or Sony said anything about having Amazon streaming available on consoles?[/QUOTE]

I was really hoping something would be announced at the amazon event today, but it was a bust. :( If they do add Amazon Prime streaming to the 360, I will definitely pony up for Prime. Not primarily for the streaming, but it would certainly be an additional incentive and enough to push me over the edge.
 
I am having some serious issues with netflix lately. Yesterday the service wouldn't work at all between 2pm and about 7pm. Didn't matter what device I tried to access it with.

Also, there are quite a few skips with audio and video.

Anyone have this issue?

Oh well, I'll be ending my membership in the next few days...
 
Gah, what is up with Netflix tonight? So many of the things they list for streaming I get excited about watching (Malcolm in the Middle, Frasier, Tron, Warehouse 13, etc.), then I click on it and they're not really streaming, just listed on the streaming page for some inexplicable reason.
 
Ladies and gentlemen, the day has arrived. It's been rumored for a quarter of a year, then silence. The series that received no official DVD release except for a "best of" DVD, one of the most requested series of all time, and something Amazon was touting as exclusive but a mere few days ago, is now available.

The Wonder Years has arrived on Netflix.
 
It's strange. I remember watching that show but I don't remember any of the story lines. I think it was only because my 10 year old self was attracted to Winnie Cooper.
 
[quote name='Cage017']It's strange. I remember watching that show but I don't remember any of the story lines. I think it was only because my 10 year old self was attracted to Winnie Cooper.[/QUOTE]
Amazing how little times change...

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bah, they changed the theme song. Its not the joe cocker version anymore, its a cover of a cover.

Can't be that much more to pay for a joe cocker version than to pay the beatles for the actual song.
 
[quote name='shosh']bah, they changed the theme song. Its not the joe cocker version anymore, its a cover of a cover.

Can't be that much more to pay for a joe cocker version than to pay the beatles for the actual song.[/QUOTE]
Have you seen the music licensing issues that they've had in trying to get that show out on DVD? If they had the money to do that, they would've solved those issues and gotten it out long ago instead of releasing Best Of sets with all of the original music cut out.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']Amazing how little times change...

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Still find it hard to believe she's one of those mathmagicians.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']fuck the wonder years, Deep Space Nine is on Instant Steaming![/QUOTE]


way past fucking time for them to add ds9. definelty the best trek show imo with one of the best casts. oh yeah for those of you who like tall tales and such theres a series on nexflix called the storytellers i think it was done by jim henson and the guy telling the stories is the wand maker from the harry potter movies.
 
[quote name='Lightning War']They better renew The Office before October 1st. That's all I have to say.[/QUOTE]

That and its spinoff, Parks and Recreation. I just started watching Parks and Rec yesterday and it's about to vanish.
 
You know what would be smart of Paramount to do? Release that damn TNG HD Demo episodes on Netflix for a month as a test to see if people respond well to TNG HD in order to go ahead and release all seasons in HD.
 
[quote name='Halo05']That and its spinoff, Parks and Recreation. I just started watching Parks and Rec yesterday and it's about to vanish.[/QUOTE]

They just added season 3, so it's not going anywhere. Season 7 of the Office and season 5 of 30 Rock are also available now. Very surprising about 30 Rock, as the DVD doesn't come out until the end of November.

Meet Joe Black, Super Troopers, Case 39, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Tron Legacy are now streaming.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']fuck the wonder years, Deep Space Nine is on Instant Steaming![/QUOTE]
fuck you Netflix. Keep taking my $8 a month then
 
Deep Space Nine was the only Star Trek I liked. Maybe because they never went anywhere. It was just a giant truck stop in space.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']DS9 was mostly done by the Rondald Moore, same guy behind BSG, which would explain why it was good.[/QUOTE]

Mostly? And he was involved in Caprica, and that sucked.

He did write one of my favorite episodes on DS9, but mostly done by him is a very large exaggeration.
 
worf is an intergalactic pimp. he always got the best tang in the trek universe. its also cool that alot of cool horror actors were part of the series candyman , notld and the reanimator and hellraiser 1.
 
[quote name='Scorch']They just added season 3, so it's not going anywhere. Season 7 of the Office and season 5 of 30 Rock are also available now. Very surprising about 30 Rock, as the DVD doesn't come out until the end of November.

Meet Joe Black, Super Troopers, Case 39, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Tron Legacy are now streaming.[/QUOTE]

Yup. I was able to drop my DVD option from Netflix without too much pain but I'm stuck with their streaming for the foreseeable future. I can't complain, it's still a tenth the cost of cable.
 
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