Netflix Instant Queue

[H D]

For whom it applies:



What is in your instant queue? What should I be watching?



Watching Pulp Fiction at the moment because my wife has never seen it. The Big Lebowski later.

Just finished Weeds.

Friday Night Lights next.

Top Gear (BBC) of course.



A few other movies and tv shows that are worth watching but not really worth mentioning.



So, what is worth mentioning, in y'alls opinions?

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Dexter

 

[H D]

I tried that. It said not available for instant queue. I'll try again.

 

[Robert Thomas]

The movies listed will tell you if they are instant watch. Like TJR, Dexter, start at season one.



Your player should log you into netflex and get into their instant menu. You have a lots more options from there.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Dexter was available for quite some time as a "Watch Instantly" set of selections, but alas, not now. Netflix is at the mercy of the providers, in this case, Showtime, as for when they can and can't include things for instant viewing.



Watch the Starz series "Spartacus", in its two seasons (actually, season and a half as the second, prequel season was short...but ran completely). Good stuff, especially if you liked Gladiator and 300.



TJR

 

[H D]

Spartacus also wasn't available last I checked. I'll try that again as well.



Didn't really know how Netflix really worked. Still in my one month free. Using the Blu Ray player.



So, the big question is: Is it worth the $8 a month for streaming?

 

[Robert Thomas]

Just dropped the streaming part. I get two movies a week most of the time in the mail.

 

[H D]

I'm thinking that may be the better deal. We tend to watch one show at a time all the way through the series, sometimes taking more than a month, and maybe one or two movies a month.

 

[Richard McAlister]

I was a streaming with one disk at a time Netflix customer. I became disappointed with the selection for streaming, and when they raised their prices I dropped them altogether. I think they are trying to get out of the disk by mail business, but until they offer a better selection for instant viewing I'll look elsewhere.

:sad:

 

[Clay Campbell]

30 rock

psych

overhaulin

gangs of new your

sex drive

dane cook

amazing johnathon

the big lebowski

bo burnham

 

[Richard L]

I have Netflix streaming video...only $7.99 per month. I did not get the $2 upgrade to get a DVD video by mail. Then a few months ago I heard they raised the subscription price for anyone with the DVD by Mail service...The did not increase my Streaming video subscription....at least not yet



I did some research and found that NetFlix is not withhold certain movies/shows from the Streaming Video subscribers because they want to.....They have contracts with the individual TV networks and movie release companys, NOT to release some some of the DVD stuff to Streaming video until a specific dates. The networks and movies release companies want to make more money from the DVD's before they release the movies to streaming video. So the issue is with the Networks and Movie release/distibution companies, and not with NetFlix, although it does take them a little more time to get the videos uploaded to their servers for the on-demand streaming video service.



Of course the NetFlix price increase is all NetFlix's doing since they claim that the processing and mailing of DVD's is much more expensive...thus the price increase.



....Rich

 

[Bill V]

Bob the Builder

Thomas the Train Engine

VeggieTales

Phineas and Ferb

SpongeBob SquarePants

iCarly



Guess what the predominant age group of Netflix viewers is in my household... :bwahaha:



For my wife and I, we have been watching occasional Flashpoint back episodes lately. Pretty decent show, IMHO.



I do wish that Neflix had the ability to create folders in your Instant Queue, so we could group the kids' stuff together without having to wade through it to get to what we adults want to watch, and vice versa.

 

[Bill V]

Netflix is at the mercy of the providers, in this case, Showtime, as for when they can and can't include things for instant viewing.

And yet they claim that they provide "UNLIMITED" streaming of your favorite movies and TV shows. I can't believe they're allowed to say that without getting nailed for false advertising. "Unlimited" means that you can watch any TV show, any movie, any time--even though the LIMITS of the Netflix streaming library are well documented.

 

[TomT]

When they say unlimited, they mean your not limited on how many shows/movies you can stream a month. I wish they did have a better streaming selection. That's why I prefer to rent the disks and convert them to mpeg.

 

[Bill V]

Tom, I definitely get that that's what they are supposedly meaning. The problem is, that's now what the word "unlimited" means. If they can't abide by the meaning of the word, then they shouldn't be using that word.



It especially irks me when their radio ads say that you get "unlimited" episodes of your favorite TV shows. Not true! If my favorite show is one of the many they don't carry at all, then not only don't I get "unlimited" episodes, I don't get any at all!

 

[Richard L]

Bill V,

I understand your point. Perhaps they should say "You have unlimited access to our limited library of movies and TV shows"...:bwahaha:



If you look at Hulu online streaming, they have some of the newer TV shows the day after they aired on TV for the first time....I often watch Jay Leno on the Tonight show the next day if I fall asleep before it comes on.... There is also some free software that you use to capture some videos off the internet (Not NetFlix) and other software to convert them to MP4 and many TV's and DVD Players will accept USB Jump drives.



I have a Roku box for my NetFlix because it has more flexiblity than your typical DVD Player. It has a special channels you can setup for watching your own home-made videos from a USB Jump drive. You can also upload and watch your own videos if you susbscribe to some websites that have a channels you can setup on your Roku box. There is also some software that you can buy that lets you view movies, or photos on your Roku box from any source on your home network.



...Rich

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Bill V,



They are providing unlimited streaming. (tongue in cheek). They don't limit the amount you stream. There is no cap.



The problem is that the term is vague and therefore can be misleading. Unlimited, without any qualifiers would lead one to believe that there are truly NO LIMITS. Of course, you recognize the limits, one being that not everything is available for streaming.



That is why one should NEVER (well, almost never) use absolute words, terms, phrases, at least not without qualifiers.



TJR

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Oh, and as far as limited versus unlimited, what I think we are going to see is what the industry calls "over the top" access to more and more content. For example, HBO recently provided HBO GO. From that portal and applet they provide access to pretty much all their original series programming and all of their recent hit movies library. They provide more of their titles than say Comcast, or Time Warner does via their cable video on demand....and I mean a LOT more...10x1 more.



I think we are going to see it go more and more like that. HBO GO will become a "channel" for Amazon TV, Google TV, Roku, Yahoo TV, etc (all different technology standards finding their way into game systems, blue ray players and TVs). Once this happens more and more, essentially the middle man gets squeezed out. The middle men are the syndicators and the providers (like Dish, Comcast, Time Warner, etc) that package up and distribute/broadcast the content to you.



Inevitably it will lead to lower costs, more choices, less monopoly.



It is already happening. It will continue.



TJR

 

[Bill V]

TJR, agreed--although that sucks for those of us with equipment which, for example, has Netflix access but not Hulu, HBO GO, Amazon, iTunes, etc. The growing spectrum of services makes it difficult for people's equipment to keep up with any of them. I have to suspect that at some point, they're going to have to harmonize on a standard delivery system/format, which can be embedded into all the equipment and which allows you to access any of the services which abide by the format. Kind of the old VHS/Beta thing, all over again, but with far more than those two players in the field. (Or, for those of you too young for that reference, change "VHS/Beta" to "BluRay/HDDVD".)