anybody here know a decent streaming service. I am trying the free month on Netflix and I find it really hard to browse the inventory and the database seems rather limited.
for instance there was a listing fro a Humphry Bogart movie so I decided to check all his movies. They had two and Casa Blanca wasn’t even on the list.
I thought NetFlix was supposed to be the king of streaming.
It’s a Sony Blueray paler so I also can try Sony, HuluHD, and maybe 4 or 5 others but I can’t afford to pay each one $8 a month. Is there one that basically has everything? to say NetFlix was let down is an understatement.
I also switched from HuluPlus to Netflix. HuluPlus had some shows that Netflix doesn’t but on the whole, Netflix is way better (for what I watch anyway). They’ve got a lot more movies that you can’t stream but can have sent to you for an additional $7 per month. I stream it through my XBOX and the menu works fine.
There is no perfect answer right now but Netflix is the leader for a reason. The battle of over content distribution and royalties is holding back all potential providers of streaming content.
Netflix is really designed to be used on a desktop computer, shows/movies added to instant queue, then watch them with your tv and player. Also if you start rating movies and TV shows, it’ll suggest you new stuff that can be awesome.
I wanna say that you are allowed up to 7 devices streaming on netflix…We can, not that we do; but are able to stream on X-box, wife streams on laptop, and for poo&coos we also able to watch over smart phone at same time with no glitches and skipping.
I have watched exactly ONE movie streamed from Amazon. DVDs are getting to the point where they can be found for $6-8 and you OWN them. You pay more than that to see the movie in a theater and half as much to stream them for a short period.
Streaming is also going to be dead when they get to the point where DVRs can store several hundred HD quality films and you can download them to own for the price of streaming.
Netflix is like $8/mo for unlimited streaming. Just watching one movie a weekend pays for itself on Netflix, but you can watch a movie a night for no additional cost. Or a movie marathon every day.
Movies are fine, but TV series are where you get your moneys worth in my opinion. The problem with DVRs is you have to catch the movie on cable to record it, Netflix lets you watch whatever you want.
The day is going to come when instead of streaming to a device you will just download directly from a provider like Netflix to your DVR and can watch it the same way you watch TV shows on your DVR now.
I got a Roku, and signed up for Netlflix streaming thinking it would be a great alternative to renting movies, etc. But what I found was that most of the movies available on streaming were old or B movies, and only about half of the TV shows I was interested in were available.
DVRs with that kind of storage and companies to serve content directly are not available to the average TV watcher yet. When DVRs can hold a hundred full length films and it’s as easy as going to the Netflix channel and recording your favorite films streaming will be dead.
DVRs are just computers with standard hard drives. They COULD make DVRs hold hundreds of full length films even today, but they don’t want to.
But I’m more of the opinion that streaming and instant access will kill regular tv.
Just like many people I know don’t have landline phones anymore, many people I know also don’t even have cable/satellite TV, yet are just as up-to-date on TV shows as people with cable.
I don’t have cable. I have Netflix $8, Hulu for free, Various websites like southparkstudios.com, iTunes, and a Boxee with a HDD full of high-def movies. (Probably 75 and counting)
Plus I have an Xbox 360. So, for entertainment I’m pretty set . . . . Not a great idea to sit around that long.
I and many others are ditching their cable packages. There’s Roku boxes, Apple TV’s, etc. and many of us already have PS3’s and Xbox’s, so you can get into a streaming service for very little initial investment and for a relatively small monthly fee.
Why would I want to download, store, and then eventually delete gigs of 1080P movies when I can just stream them? I can browse hundreds of movies and television shows and they will play instantly. I can watch them on my plasma, my laptop, my Kindle, my smartphone, etc. no problem. Makes it easy to have a show going in the background when I’m out in my garage working on the car or bike. Movie turning out to be a POS? Hit the back button and find something else. I’ve not encountered any problems whatsoever streaming through Netflix. My only issue with the service is the library isn’t as extensive as I like, and we have to wait on TV shows.
No it isn’t, and with speed increases in both broadband connections and processing capability every year, it’ll only be a matter of time before almost everything exists “in the cloud” only.
Some advice about Netflix- They will ask you what kind of stuff you’re interested in. They present a category and give you choices such as “Always Watch” all the way down to “Never Watch”. If there is a category that you do not want to watch at all DO NOT MAKE A SELECTION! Just skip oit completely. I chose "Never Watch on a couple of categories I didn’t want at all and they keep showing up in my searches and I haven’t found a way to eliminate that stupid survey
