They have some good choices on that service.


Ghostbusters 1&2
The Fifth Element
Blade Runner
Jeff Galifankis: Live
Two Jeff Dunham specials
Jesus Camp
Supersize Me
The King of Kong
A Clockwork Orange
A Streetcar Named Desire
Philadelphia
Boondock Saints
Jerry Maguire
Star Trek VI
Star Trek: Generations
Ghost in the Shell
Penn & Teller: Bullshit
Weeds Seasons 1&2
The Office (British)
The Office (America) Season 1
Dexter Season 1
Quantum Leap
Law & Order: CI and SVU

That's just some of the better/well-known stuff I saw. There are a lot of classic movies for watching too. It might not be great for big-budget movies with surround sound, but it's great for quieter films and documentaries IMO.

http://www.netflix.com/BrowseSelection?sgid=gev

6/2/2008 9:48:56 PM

I think there's a thread in chit chat about this. But selection is 99% shit, you have to wade through a lot of dreck to find the titles you posted, and most of those suck, too. Video quality is pretty horrible also.

A more interesting topic would be the home player they've released. It's a neat idea, but still crap selection.

Also,

Quote :

"Jeff Galifankis: Live"

6/2/2008 9:55:35 PM

dammit, just missed the 30 minute cutoff

Video quality was pretty damn good for me. Netflix said it was DVD quality and as far as I can tell that's what I got. I think most of movies and shows I listed are worth killing a little time with.

6/2/2008 10:21:56 PM

and they somehow don't even support OS X/Quicktime yet. despite having media players that can play anything, netflix refuses to let me try with their detection code

6/2/2008 10:49:32 PM

^

Netflix is blaming Apple, but I don't know who to believe

6/2/2008 11:34:23 PM

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"you have to wade through a lot of dreck to find the titles you posted"

not true, just use the search feature and you can choose to add the title to your queue or watch it instantly

6/3/2008 12:30:44 AM

The Orphanage, Pan's Labyrinth, ESOTSM, Weeds, The King of Kong, Trade. Well, looks like you had a few of those in the list too, but there are some more from the front page.

A couple months ago it used to be an even worse selection.

6/3/2008 12:41:56 AM

yeah and the higher rated movies/shows are usually on the top of the page. the only problem i have with it is having tv seasons that are incomplete. quantum leap is missing episodes in seasons i'd like to see

6/3/2008 1:01:05 AM

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"Netflix is blaming Apple, but I don't know who to believe"

forgot about that little disclaimer they have... meeeeh... idk. i know apple's anal about a lot of things, but i found that one hard to go along with

wish i could use it in os x though... oh well i guess.. they need more good movies though

6/3/2008 2:23:56 AM

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"Video quality is pretty horrible also."

That's probably your connection. I'm streaming onto a 4 year old POS desktop hooked up to my TV and the quality is at least as good as what you'd see from an unusually effective upconverting dvd player. I rarely have to wait more than 20 seconds for a show to start and I've probably watched more on their instant watch that I have on DVD's this past month.

The nice thing is that your "instant queue" is built from your regular queue anyways so if you only put things you want to watch in your queue then you'll only have stuff you want to watch in your instant queue. Things I've watched and love and probably wouldn't have thought to raise to the top of my normal queue:

Dexter
Weeds
Penn and Teller's Bullshit
McLibel
Cocaine Cowboys
The City of Lost Children
Slaughter House Five
Unforgiven
Sleeper Cell
Red Dwarf
A Boy and His Dog
Dead Like Me
Nightwatch
Jeremiah
Lake of Fire
Ken Burns: Mark Twain

Hell, between my roommate and I my instant watch history is 738 instances. Assume half of those are things I didn't finish in one viewing or repeats between the two of us, that's still more than the total number of DVD's I've received from netflix in 2 years of using their service. Yeah I know dvd's come with more than one episode on them, but that still shows you can get significant amounts of good stuff off the instant watch feature. The only problem is a lack of a good reccomendation system for it and the fact that you probably have never heard of a lot of the best things on it.

Still, as long as you have a very large queue, like most people, there should be some good stuff in your instant queue. If the video quality sucks, then that's either your system or your internet connection because it looks beautiful on all my machines and the machines on campus I've watched it on.

6/3/2008 3:08:40 AM

Who'd have thunk it, Ernie pwnt on tdub

again

[Edited on June 3, 2008 at 3:14 AM. Reason : again]

6/3/2008 3:13:27 AM

ha

Says this guy,



I stand by my earlier post.

6/3/2008 6:07:58 PM

watched bladerunner the other day

6/3/2008 8:42:08 PM

My old computer couldnt even run that shit and I was perfectly happy with my plan. I've watched most of 30 Rock since I got a new PC last week and it's been awesome.

Think of it as a bonus feature, you really cant complain imo.

6/3/2008 10:05:37 PM

would be nice to have it on my tv.

6/4/2008 7:42:53 AM

I tried to watch the orphanage the other day and the yellow was way off creating a double image. Anyone else have that problem?

6/4/2008 8:35:05 AM

I love how the #1 watched movie online on Netflix is Kama Sutra, an instructional video of 100 sexual positions.

Anyway I can watch the Office, UK and US stuff all day long.

6/4/2008 10:37:20 AM

teeth

if you want to watch a movie about a chick who bites off penises with her vag

6/8/2008 6:04:42 PM

hahaha

6/9/2008 10:59:33 PM

ttt

11/20/2008 7:48:52 AM

I love this shit, in 4-5 years it will all be streaming media like this. Why even bother with discs. I streamed an HD movie yesterday and it worked absolutely perfect. I couldn't believe it.

I hope Sony gets in on this with PSN just so they'll lighten up with Sony movies availability through this. Right now I know they are bitter.

11/20/2008 9:07:45 AM

I'm thinking about getting this with the NXE

11/20/2008 10:04:23 AM

Quote :

"Why even bother with discs"

if you want real HD

11/20/2008 12:32:15 PM

have watched:

No Country for Old Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
First episode of heroes season 1

I got the watch instantly for my xbox and didn't look back.

11/20/2008 10:44:01 PM

I have not used a dvd in about 3 years now. Convenience of streaming> slightly better quality.


Plus now I can catch up on all the 30 Rock I missed

11/20/2008 11:01:15 PM

Primer

11/20/2008 11:30:47 PM

pretty good deal for 9 bux a month

11/20/2008 11:57:45 PM

yeah, its pretty bad ass, Quantum Leap Season 1 FTW

11/21/2008 1:53:55 AM

bigger, faster, stronger ftw. pretty good documentary.

11/21/2008 2:38:09 AM

Cashback has some decent t&a...although it is a slow moving movie that is not quite what I thought it would be.

11/21/2008 4:47:51 AM

just watched the documentary Crazy Love on there... holy shit what a fucked up story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Pugach

11/23/2008 1:10:16 AM

watched the hurricane for the first time the other day, another fucked up story.

11/24/2008 11:30:40 AM

is their a maximum for this service? or can I stream as much to my xbox/pc as I have time to watch?

11/24/2008 10:07:39 PM

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"can I stream as much to my xbox/pc as I have time to watch?"

Does a bear shit in the woods?

11/24/2008 10:17:55 PM

For the limits, here is the answer:

If you have an unlimited number of DVD rentals a month, then you have unlimited watch instantly.

If you have Starz Play only, which gets you no DVDs, then your $7.99/month pays for unlimited watch instantly.

If you have the cheapest plan (1 disc a month, 2 rentals max) then you get two hours a month of watch instantly. This is $4.99/month.

So as long as your paying more than $4.99/month, you have unlimited streaming.

11/24/2008 10:25:12 PM

I am watching "Them" now

11/27/2008 1:25:16 AM

used it for the first time last night. A+, would watch again.

11/27/2008 9:03:46 PM

^^^ Ok, awesome, thanks.

11/27/2008 9:07:56 PM

I'm enjoying the hell out of some 30 Rock. I hadn't watched it at all until today I decided to check it out on watch instantly today.

11/28/2008 11:27:30 PM

Do you need xbox live gold for this service on the 360 ?

12/2/2008 1:39:43 AM

yes

12/3/2008 9:15:14 PM

this service is awesome on xbox360, especially if you are into older movies. i've been catching up on alfred hitchcock recently. next is steve mcqueen movies.

12/3/2008 9:57:35 PM

my only qualm so far w/ vista has been that now I can't watch it on my dvi monitors, only my vga monitor

12/3/2008 10:01:21 PM

Is anybody else having problems with Netflix on the 360? Mine won't get past the loading screen.

7/5/2010 8:46:04 PM

i was just about to post this

mine just has the red startup screen with xbox live and the green beacon rings animation thing

7/5/2010 10:07:00 PM

weeds-up to season 4 now

7/5/2010 10:58:13 PM

I just watched Zombieland via netflix on my PS3.

7/5/2010 10:58:17 PM

working now (xbox360)

7/5/2010 11:09:35 PM

Quote :

"Is anybody else having problems with Netflix on the 360? Mine won't get past the loading screen."

Mine was doing this last night but after I just waited for a few mins (like maybe 5 or 10) it eventually came up

7/5/2010 11:41:29 PM

i, too, was having this problem. i gave up and played civilization for a little while.

7/6/2010 12:14:36 AM