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[Video]

Yo, Yeah, I don't really like doing the whole DD thing, but lately I've been finding myself swamped in movies that I'll probably never watch again, and often I buy them new, so I don't have an option of making the money back on them.

It sounds like Netflix gots a good deal, you can pay $12 (ish) a month and get all the movies you want for free basically, I think this would be advantageous to my pocket book in no short amount of time.

But, I got all kinds of stuff, I could run it on my computer on the go, or my 3DS (would I get to play 3D movies on there? that would be a good question too), at home I would likely run it on my Wii or Xbox...so

Basically, I want know from anyone who actually used it, can I just have one account and use it whichever system I happen to have at the time?

[Reaperman]

Video, on Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:46 PM, said:

Basically, I want know from anyone who actually used it, can I just have one account and use it whichever system I happen to have at the time?

Yes. More than that, I've streamed to my ps3 at the same time my wife was streaming to the PC in the next room both using the same accont. It actually happens rather frequently and has never been an issue. Netflix does complain when I try streaming 2 movies to the same pc at once though--but that was my dumb mistake for having one open (paused) in another window that I had forgotten about.

Don't know about the 3d movies on 3ds though. I don't think that I've ever seen an available 3d movie on netflix, though I really haven't looked.

Edited by Reaperman, Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:33 PM.

[Video]

Cool thanks. That's what I wanted to know.

Oh, one more thing, do you have any issues with your card being charged multiple times a month? I seem to have this issue regularly with anybody that I ever have a renewable subscription to and didn't see any other payment options for netflix.

[amiman99]

You can watch Netflix on different devices, but on the first run it may ask you to register the device, a CODE pops up and you need to enter it in the website using your account.
The cheapest option may lets you stream one movie and one TV show at a time.
The streaming selection for movies is not the best, mostly older or B rated movies. If you like TV shows, there are plenty to choose from, like all X-Files episodes, or Futurama or Family Guy etc.
They still may have 1 month free, so try it first.
Since I got Netflix, I don't buy movies anymore, before I was buying 2 - 3 a week (used)

[Animan]

No, Netflix on the 3DS doesn't support 3D movies, however Nintendo seemed to imply that it might in the future.

I do know that streaming 3D video is already very demanding. The eShop has 3D trailers, but they look very pixelated, laggy, and take forever to load. Maybe 3D streaming for a full movie is a bit much.

Edited by Animan, Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:52 PM.

[Metal Ghost]

I think you can conect 1 Netflix account to up to 4 devices, when each device requires a code. So for example, we have Netflix on our Sony Dash, and that used up one code.

Now my Xbox 360 is a different story, since it really doesn't matter what device/360 you'r watching on, but it does matter that you are using the correct profile that's linked to Netflix. So I could watch on any 360 I want, so long as I'm connected to my profile.

But we do kind of the same thing that Reaperman does....I have a family Xbox Live Gold pack, and my wife can watch something on Netflix in one room while I'm watching a different show in another room, both on Xbox 360s. And I never explicitly linked her sub-Gold account to my 'parent' account, so I don't think that counts against the Netflix limit of 4 'devices'. So I think that the 'child' Live accounts kind of get a free ride on the 'parent' one.

[JamesD]

Nothing decent has shown up on Netflix streaming for a couple months and they are splitting the DVD/streaming service into two separate entities. The DVD version will become Quickster or something else lame like that, so the combined bill will become two separate ones.
On top of that, the Starz contract is going to expire and a lot of good streaming titles are going away if the contract isn't renewed.
I'm glad I didn't sign up for a gold account just so I could access Netflix. My next Netflix billing is tomorrow and I'm going to put my account on hold until I see what happens.
If the new movie situation on Netflix streaming doesn't improve I'm dumping it.

I can watch a lot of stuff from Netflix streaming on hulu for free off my computer. If huluplus adds more movies it might end up the better deal... although the adds are annoying.
Not sure if a huluplus viewer is available/in the works for the 3DS though.

[moycon]

All we use to watch shows/movies these days is Netflix.
Neither me nor my girlfriend cares to watch the latest turd Hollywood craps out or the latest show.
We like the fact they only have older shows. I'm a huge fan of older horror flicks! We're working our way through shows like Cheers again and it's great!
At around $120 a year it's a much better deal for us than the $120 a month cable with a bunch of premium channels would cost.I also use Play-On (one time $30 fee) which streams sites like Hulu and YouTube through my 360, it certainly watchable, but the quality pales in comparison to Netflix. Between the two though, we never have a problem finding something to keep us entertained.

[CPUWIZ]

I only pay $7.99 a month for my streaming Netflix account, where does the $12 figure come from?

I use it on my Apple TV's and PS3, occasionally on my iPhone or iPad's. I love it, but the quality of some of the older flicks is sometimes questionable.

[moycon]

CPUWIZ, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 2:40 PM, said:

I only pay $7.99 a month for my streaming Netflix account, where does the $12 figure come from?

$12 was what it cost when we started Netflix and had streaming and DVD sent. I think that is bumped up to like $15 now.
You're right, it's $7.99 just for streaming.

[Animan]

moycon, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 2:19 PM, said:

All we use to watch shows/movies these days is Netflix.
Neither me nor my girlfriend cares to watch the latest turd Hollywood craps out or the latest show.
We like the fact they only have older shows. I'm a huge fan of older horror flicks! We're working our way through shows like Cheers again and it's great!
At around $120 a year it's a much better deal for us than the $120 a month cable with a bunch of premium channels would cost.I also use Play-On (one time $30 fee) which streams sites like Hulu and YouTube through my 360, it certainly watchable, but the quality pales in comparison to Netflix. Between the two though, we never have a problem finding something to keep us entertained.

Same here. The only Blu-ray/DVD movies me and my parents have bought over the last year were:

-Avatar (Blu-ray disc we bought with our Blu-Ray player. It's a good piece to show off your new TV to friends and family)
-Scott Pilgrim (I loved that movie so damn much, I had to have a physical copy)
-X-Men: First Class (My mom didn't see it, and it wasn't on Netflix or Redbox. That, and it was less than $10)

Thing is, if we want to watch a movie, we either watch it on Netflix, get it from Redbox, or have TiVo record it.

[Ryanw]

I've had Netflix streaming for about three months now, and I still have enough movies to watch about 2-3 times a week with many more I have saved. The real strength for this is TV shows though. Has a lot of modern series I want to see like Breaking Bad and Mad Men but a lot of older ones too. I recommend giving the one month free trial a try.

[CPUWIZ]

moycon, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:11 PM, said:

CPUWIZ, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 2:40 PM, said:

I only pay $7.99 a month for my streaming Netflix account, where does the $12 figure come from?

$12 was what it cost when we started Netflix and had streaming and DVD sent. I think that is bumped up to like $15 now.
You're right, it's $7.99 just for streaming.

Interesting, when I signed up, I paid $9.99 for streaming and DVD's, when they did the price hike, I ditched the DVD portion, since I never used it.

[cimerians]

We pay for streaming only now. It's not bad but they really killed us on the price hike.
I think they will be doing video games soon. I'm not the biggest Netflix fan nor am I a complete hater. I'm pretty much somewhere in the middle.

[moycon]

CPUWIZ, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:49 PM, said:

Interesting, when I signed up, I paid $9.99 for streaming and DVD's, when they did the price hike, I ditched the DVD portion, since I never used it.

The differing prices probably had something to do with the number of DVDs you could have out at one time. They've always had different account levels. You could have one or multiple DVDs out at a time and each level up from one out was a few bucks more per month.

[onlysublime]

CPUWIZ, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:49 PM, said:

moycon, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 3:11 PM, said:

CPUWIZ, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 2:40 PM, said:

I only pay $7.99 a month for my streaming Netflix account, where does the $12 figure come from?

$12 was what it cost when we started Netflix and had streaming and DVD sent. I think that is bumped up to like $15 now.
You're right, it's $7.99 just for streaming.

Interesting, when I signed up, I paid $9.99 for streaming and DVD's, when they did the price hike, I ditched the DVD portion, since I never used it.

well, ditching the DVD portion meant losing over half of Netflix's library. the streaming library is pretty average.

[HammR25]

You're probably losing like 80% of their library by going to streaming only. There are no new release movies on streaming if you care about that. If a person wants both streaming and dvds the minimum they could pay is $13. That's $8 for streaming and $5 to be limited to 2 dvds a month. It would be $16 a month for unlimited streaming and unlimited dvds with 1 out at a time. That $13 goes to $14 with Blu-ray as an option and the $16 goes to $18 with Blu-ray as an option.

[Asaki]

Weird that everyone keeps saying their streaming is all older movies. My biggest complaint about Netflix streaming is that most of it is all stuff from 2000+.

I spend way too much time going "I wonder if they have this movie..." and then searching for it manually. Would be nicer if you could just click something and say "Just show me 80s movies", or click another thing and say "Just show me Vincent Price movies."

[SoulBlazer]

Well, you can click on a actor or director to see all the movies he/she did.

[moycon]

Asaki, on Mon Oct 3, 2011 7:29 AM, said:

Weird that everyone keeps saying their streaming is all older movies. My biggest complaint about Netflix streaming is that most of it is all stuff from 2000+.

I think people mean that there are very few current releases. Like for instance, The Expendables was released on DVD at the end of 2010. It just started up on Netflix streaming about a month ago. I guess it's important to watch a movie as close to it's release date as possible, although I'm not exactly sure why that is. Maybe it's because A.) you run the risk of dying and missing out or B.) Not being able to answer "yeah" when someone asks you if you've seen something.

[HammR25]

moycon, on Mon Oct 3, 2011 2:53 PM, said:

I think people mean that there are very few current releases. Like for instance, The Expendables was released on DVD at the end of 2010. It just started up on Netflix streaming about a month ago. I guess it's important to watch a movie as close to it's release date as possible, although I'm not exactly sure why that is. Maybe it's because A.) you run the risk of dying and missing out or B.) Not being able to answer "yeah" when someone asks you if you've seen something.

Or those people watch a lot of movies and are caught up on all the older releases they want to watch but they'd still like to get value from the service.

[Asaki]

SoulBlazer, on Mon Oct 3, 2011 8:21 AM, said:

Well, you can click on a actor or director to see all the movies he/she did.

Not on the Wii.

...at least I don't think you can?

[Reaperman]

Asaki, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 7:28 AM, said:

SoulBlazer, on Mon Oct 3, 2011 8:21 AM, said:

Well, you can click on a actor or director to see all the movies he/she did.

Not on the Wii. ...at least I don't think you can?

The console clients are pretty bad, and are actually getting worse. I do a 'bad movie night' every week from my ps3, and it's gotten hard to find movies. They only show me a handful of genres of their choosing, with a few movies in each of their choosing. We used to be able to go to, for example: musicals > foreign-musicals and find ourselves loads of movies.

We've resorted to searching for random words--but search won't even let us do directors, actors or genres. It's also nearly worthless for looking up movies with titles in a language we don't speak. We need a decent browse functionality for that.

[moycon]

Reaperman, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:34 AM, said:

The console clients are pretty bad,

Easy solution is to use a web browser on your PC to do a more robust search and then add multiple movies you think you might like to your instant queue.
Then use the console client to pull up the flicks in your instant queue.

HammR25, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 6:55 AM, said:

Or those people watch a lot of movies and are caught up on all the older releases they want to watch but they'd still like to get value from the service.

Ooops you're right. C.) Person lives for watching movies and has watched every movie they've wanted from the time movies were made to the present and must keep going forward watching ASAP.



Honestly I see your point. You think it's too expensive and they don't have shows you want to watch. I was in the same boat with cable. I thought it was stupid to pay $80 a month for cable where I had 120 channels and hardly no shows I cared about seeing. Admittedly I don't watch much TV. I cut my cable probably 8 years ago and it was one of the best cuts I ever made. I could see how a person whose interest was watching movies daily would run out of content on Netflix streaming pretty quick. I doubt it will change any time soon. It's a HUGE service and the ISPs are already having issues keeping up with the bandwidth. Can you imagine how it's going to be when they stream every movie, even the latest ones at a press of a button the day they are released? A lot more equipment and circuits would need to be in place for that to happen without bogging down.

[Mendon]

moycon, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 10:57 AM, said:

Honestly I see your point. You think it's too expensive and they don't have shows you want to watch. I was in the same boat with cable. I thought it was stupid to pay $80 a month for cable where I had 120 channels and hardly no shows I cared about seeing.

Won't hijack the thread but have to comment your statement.... I have DirecTV and was scanning thru the channel guide between baseball games the other night and it really jumped out at me at just how many shopping channels there now are. There are somewhere around 500 channels on DirecTV (many are pay-per-view things like movies and sports) and I swear that well over a third of the offerings are shopping channels or info-mercials.

I need to seriously re-think my satellite bill.


Mendon