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neo_wales
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by television2004:
“So is unlimited actually unlimited or does fair use still apply. It is clear that to using a on demand programme provider like Netflix uses a lot of gigabites , which in your case is around 600Gig per month!
With my free 8meg/ 40gig per month Talk talk internet. I do not think I will be trying it!”

Its not a lot to move up to the unlimited TT package, maybe worth thinking about?
Gormond
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by jimbobuk:
“I'm glad I'm not going insane and someone else spotted seasons 1 to 3 of Breaking Bad on there earlier this week. I was excited as i'd just finished watching season 1, so was going to do seasons 2 and 3 and really test what netflix was capable of. Checked yesterday however and now there's only seasons 1 and 2!!!

Content is a problem for netflix fullstop, why the hell would they take stuff away!”

If you use a US DNS then season 3 is there also.
Gormond
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by iHelix:
“Quick question (possibly stupid): Is accessing US Netflix from here in any way 'forbidden'? For example, will they ban you if they discover it? I'm accessing it with my UK account but I don't want to if it will have adverse consequences.”

Netflix is meant to work on what ever country you are in. All you are doing is tricking it into thinking you are in the US. So from there point of view you are a UK customer in the US which is fine.

What they may do however is stop UK customers viewing US content but they won't ban you or anything.
Synnea
12-01-2012
I tried US DNS from unblocked US, couldnt believe Fringe was not on there?? I expected it would be.
daleski75
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by television2004:
“So is unlimited actually unlimited or does fair use still apply. It is clear that to using a on demand programme provider like Netflix uses a lot of gigabites , which in your case is around 600Gig per month!
With my free 8meg/ 40gig per month Talk talk internet. I do not think I will be trying it!”

With VM they just throttle the speeds down however you can continue downloading/streaming as much as you like.

Your 40gb would disappear in no time after watching a few HD movies or TV shows.
daleski75
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by Synnea:
“I tried US DNS from unblocked US, couldnt believe Fringe was not on there?? I expected it would be.”

That took me by surprise as well.
The Phazer
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by iHelix:
“Quick question (possibly stupid): Is accessing US Netflix from here in any way 'forbidden'? For example, will they ban you if they discover it? I'm accessing it with my UK account but I don't want to if it will have adverse consequences.”

Yes.

It's against the terms and conditions of your account, so they can terminate your access at any time.

It's also a copyright infringement every bit as downloading the programme from a torrent, so any studio who's content you have downloaded in this way could sue you. And it would be very easy to win, given you have helpfully provided them with your name, address, and credit card ccd to prove it was you.

Phazer
daleski75
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by The Phazer:
“Yes.

It's against the terms and conditions of your account, so they can terminate your access at any time.

It's also a copyright infringement every bit as downloading the programme from a torrent, so any studio who's content you have downloaded in this way could sue you. And it would be very easy to win, given you have helpfully provided them with your name, address, and credit card ccd to prove it was you.

Phazer”

I think that's always a risk I am doing the same with my UK account accessing content from the states however I do have a account in the states as well with entropy setup so can use that instead if the worst case scenario happens and they stop me from accessing content over seas.

If the UK content continues to grow I would rather stick with that anyway so I see this unblock-us as more of a temporary thing than anything.
-GONZO-
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by television2004:
“So is unlimited actually unlimited or does fair use still apply. It is clear that to using a on demand programme provider like Netflix uses a lot of gigabites , which in your case is around 600Gig per month!
With my free 8meg/ 40gig per month Talk talk internet. I do not think I will be trying it!”

This may be of some use to you.
Quote:
“We offer 3 video quality settings to help you manage your data usage: Good (up to 0.3 GB/hour), Better (up to 0.7 GB/hour) and Best (about 1.0 GB/hour but up to 2.3 GB/hour when streaming HD content). The default setting is "Good" and you can change the setting any time you want - your price will remain just £5.99 a month”

RileyM
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by muppetman11:
“I have an LG LW550T Cinema 3D set I believe the US version of this set has Netflix so here's hoping.”

Yeah I have a LG Home Theatre system with their Smart TV function (aka NetCast) so hope we get Netflix added soon.
MooWow!
12-01-2012
IF i sign up for the free trail do they take anything from my bank account for the first month?
daleski75
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by MooWow!:
“IF i sign up for the free trail do they take anything from my bank account for the first month?”

They take nothing until the trial ends and you carry on with the membership unless of course you cancel before hand.
c00kiemonster72
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by MooWow!:
“IF i sign up for the free trail do they take anything from my bank account for the first month?”

Originally Posted by daleski75:
“They take nothing until the trial ends and you carry on with the membership unless of course you cancel before hand.”

Which if you do cancel, you can still access the service until your month is up

Really liking this service, and am def going to continue with the service after the free trial, have watched most of the South Park episodes and have now started to watch the Heroes series from episode 1

I really like the way I can pick up where I left off watching across my various devices.
Was checking my download usage today, and usually in a month I download between 8 - 10GB on a 30Gb a month package, in the couple of days since using Netflix I've already hit 8GB
daleski75
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by c00kiemonster72:
“Which if you do cancel, you can still access the service until your month is up

Really liking this service, and am def going to continue with the service after the free trial, have watched most of the South Park episodes and have now started to watch the Heroes series from episode 1

I really like the way I can pick up where I left off watching across my various devices.
Was checking my download usage today, and usually in a month I download between 8 - 10GB on a 30Gb a month package, in the couple of days since using Netflix I've already hit 8GB”

It shocked me as well as to how fast you can literally chew through the data and I think this alone will force a lot of people onto higher packages or unlimited ones.
skipai
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by mrkite77:
“I'm sure the backend has some integration between the two (stuff that's in my DVD queue that becomes available for streaming will automatically appear in my instant queue), but they are separate queues.

I've heard you can even look at your (empty) queue in the UK:

http://movies.netflix.com/Queue?qtype=ED

The thing about netflix is they often try something new. It could be they don't have the queue feature because they're working on something different for the streaming-only countries.

The problem is they sometimes kill off features and don't necessarily replace them with something better. Netflix used to have a Friends feature, where you could recommend movies to friends, see each other's history, etc, that's all gone. Obviously that's now replaced with facebook shit (although there is no facebook integration in the US netflix, that's something they're trying out on you guys).

The other thing that kind of sucks is that they don't do "save movies" for you guys (it's part of the queue system). If I see a trailer for a movie coming soon to theaters, Netflix will have a stub for it, and I can "save" that stub in my queue, and it'll sit there at the bottom of the queue until it becomes available to rent. Even now I've got True Blood Season 4, ParaNorman, etc sitting in my saved queue, so I won't have to pay attention a year from now when they're available.”

I'm not touching Facebook part of it at all as I won't touch Facebook at all, hate that site, so never join it, even if I was paid. (Would have to be quite a lot of money to even make me consider it.)

Have to see how it goes though with the catalogue, but if Netflix actually wants to stop abuse from those using the US service the actions they do to increase content... (Please, make it better than Lovefilm catalogue as that's just ugh) Then don't see a problem.

But I'm unsure if the UK version will get to the same numbers of titles the US catalogue has got. But expecting to be nearer to a thousand or more by this time next year, as in titles not episode counts. If that happens then Netflix is serious about being number one over here as well. If not then it be just like any other streaming service in this country, not that bothered really.
daleski75
12-01-2012
From my point of view I am one of these 'abusers' who use Netlix in both the UK and predominately the USA down to the content which is far more abundant over there however once the UK gets near that with original content as well I plan on ditching the USA side of things anyway.

The servers where all the content is stored are all based in California so no matter if you use the UK or USA service you are still accessing the same server so for me it's not abuse at all I am just able to see more content whilst the Netflix UK gets going.
c00kiemonster72
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by daleski75:
“It shocked me as well as to how fast you can literally chew through the data and I think this alone will force a lot of people onto higher packages or unlimited ones.”

Yeah I was looking at that also, another £10 a month would double my current package

If Im careful though and I watch after midnight and all weekend this is free and does not touch my package
daleski75
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by c00kiemonster72:
“Yeah I was looking at that also, another £10 a month would double my current package

If Im careful though and I watch after midnight and all weekend this is free and does not touch my package”

The thing is though because you can watch it there and then with no waiting for the postie its hard not to watch more, netflix could bring down the internet!!
c00kiemonster72
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by daleski75:
“ netflix could bring down the internet!!”

I really hope they don't
jasonT1981
12-01-2012
Is there any way to get the US Content on a PS3. I am using Hotspot shield, but it only works on the PC and when logging into PS3 it gives me only UK content..
justjax
12-01-2012
Darn it, yesterday Samsung stated on their twitter feed that app was available for D Series 6000 and above, yet today articles confirming Netflix on Samsung are saying D7000 and D8000 series and above, going to be mighty peeved when I get home if it ain't available on my D6100. Anyone with the D6100 or a 6000 series TV got the app yet?

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Spider Rico
12-01-2012
I signed up and DL'd the app on my Xbox 360 last night and I'm very impressed At first the picture was a tad stuttery, but I turned up the quality(in my Netflix account) and that seemed to help. Pretty amazing quality it is too. Where I live is notoriously slow for internet, but it handles it OK.

When I'm playing things, the little quality meter thingie in the top left hand corner seems to stop short of HD(it's greyed out, as it is with Youtube videos and such) but it looks HD to me, or at least very close.

I think the selection is decent considering it has just launched over here. Quite a few films I want to watch already, and a couple of TV series I missed when they were first shown that I may watch right from the beginning. £5.99 per month is nothing for this kind of service IMO. Looking forward to it growing over the coming months.
noise747
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by television2004:
“So is unlimited actually unlimited or does fair use still apply. It is clear that to using a on demand programme provider like Netflix uses a lot of gigabites , which in your case is around 600Gig per month!
With my free 8meg/ 40gig per month Talk talk internet. I do not think I will be trying it!”

i know my ISP is unlimited, with no traffic management either, i think the chance of me moving to a fibre network that is limited will be pretty slim.
noise747
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by daleski75:
“The thing is though because you can watch it there and then with no waiting for the postie its hard not to watch more, netflix could bring down the internet!!”

That would be so funny
neo_wales
12-01-2012
Originally Posted by noise747:
“i know my ISP is unlimited, with no traffic management either, i think the chance of me moving to a fibre network that is limited will be pretty slim.”

How many fibre providers limit?
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