Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

yah im deeply opposed to the practice of owning individual stocks but i kinda want to buy a lil jus cause

I think the streaming selection is pretty great. All depends on what you like to watch. We watch something on streaming almost every night of the week.

yeah i think ppl who bag on the streaming are v unimaginative & expect it to have like all the big studio blockblusters immediately?

part of me wanting to buy stock is tied to discovering they have the entire "Wolverine and the X-Men" series up for streaming

I wouldn't say unimaginative, it's just about what you like. And I'll admit that my taste level probably isn't as refined as most ppl on ilx.

its more of a browsing experience than a place you can find the thing youre looking for

I'm seriously starting to wonder if the streaming via PS3 is a totally different streaming experience than most of you guys are having because, as of last night, I only had access to like a grand total of 200 movies via streaming on my PS3. Its an awful selection.

I stream via PS3; the problem is that the interface severely limits the choices put directly in your face. I usually make a list of things I'm semi-curious about and go directly to the search screen.

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all

13,500 titles

Hmm, I've never been able to get the search to reveal anything that isn't already available via those on-screen options though.

I think this is pretty common on various platforms. If you really want to browse the entire streaming selection, do it on a computer.

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all

13,500 titles

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

instant watcher is a sweet site 4 browsing

#protip

yeah the ps3 interface is pretty terrible. I usually just browse netflix on my computer and add a bunch of stuff to my list and then when I want watch something just pick something out of my list. My list has about ~100 movies right now.

^^^ this is really the best way to do it IME

Oh, so if I add it to my "watch instantly" queue from the computer, it'll be there when I access my list through the PS3? I didn't know that!

yes, your Instant Queue stays the same everywhere you log in, even on mobile.

"The streaming selection is, as of the last few months, shockingly awful."

Every time someone says this I just roll my eyes.

I feel kind of silly for not knowing that, but I'm glad to know it now.

maybe all 800k ppl just didnt know how 2 search & build their instant queue!

Every time someone says this I just roll my eyes.

Try reading the thread before you get all dickish about it. I was referring to what was being shown as available through the PS3 platform which really is shockingly awful.

fwiw I have not and do not intend to cancel my membership, the price is still great!

You aren't the only person on this thread (or who I've had conversations with IRL) who has said this. Maybe all of them are PS3 hampered though.

As others have mentioned, the video game platform access to streaming content is truly horrible and I'm guessing that, yeah, there might be a large percentage of people that don't know they can access more than what options are shown.

I have a Roku for streaming, but the interface on that is pretty bad too. It's hard to tell from looking at it that there are more selections available than the smattering that they suggest in each genre. Even Netflix's web interface is pretty weak, IMO. It's surprisingly hard to find popular New Releases - it's almost like they deliberately hide them to dampen demand. And browsing is kind of frustrating - it doesn't seem to organized well. The whole recommendations feature is also kind of useless 95% of the time.

i suspect they found via testing that people like it better when you give them fewer choices

thats generally true

obvs giving them the right choices is key

I go to instantwatcher.com on my iPad while sitting on the couch. Add movies and them just refresh the queue on tv.

"The whole recommendations feature is also kind of useless 95% of the time."

Really? I think it works really well on the website.

Agree that Roku's interface is crappy too, but I don't use it.

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all

13,500 titles

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

instant watcher is a sweet site 4 browsing

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

#protip

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yo good looks! i never knew about that site

yeah the netflix recommendation algorithm works really well ime, one of the best things about the site, i wish spotify had a similar feach

true most of my queue is populated through endless recommendation strings

Can you add movies to your Netflix streaming queue directly via instantwatcher, or do you have to do it through the Netflix site?

The former, according to a button on each film's page. Though I haven't tried it myself yet.

yah it works, uses netflix apis same as ps3 or w/e

Truth

its more of a browsing experience than a place you can find the thing youre looking for

This is my issue w/ streaming.

Does Kevin John Bajingo still post around here? He often said how much he hated Netflix, but I never asked why, and now I'm curious.

yah obvs itd be better if it had everything... someday

Y'all should convert this into an ILX instant view recommendations thread.

There already is one of those.

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

at least 2 of them actually

Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

Ya u really gotta use the website or wtv if you're watching via ps3.

There isn't everything but there is a lot. All twilight zone eps in HD!

I find the HD stuff to be dubious, at best. Either it's not true HD, or it's been altered from its original format (ie HD, but cropped from 'Scope to 1.85). Basically, Netflix streaming is standard DVD quality, to my eyes.

I know what HD looks like yall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYKyIObXyM

Also do you have your vid quality settings on high?

I find the HD stuff to be dubious, at best. Either it's not true HD, or it's been altered from its original format (ie HD, but cropped from 'Scope to 1.85). Basically, Netflix streaming is standard DVD quality, to my eyes.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah it's not HD and it's miles away from bluray.

still way better than I thought it would be, though.