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Netflix for iOS Updated With iPhone 6 Support, 1080p Video for iPhone 6 Plus
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I don't have it installed, and it said it was required that I install it. However, I am running Mavericks, not Yosemite.
To each their own but I love my 6 plus. I could not imagine going back to a smaller phone. The only other one I would consider at this point is whatever is released to replace this one next year.
It'd be boring if we all liked the same stuff haha but yeah, I'd love an iPhone with a discrete 3.5" screen with the 6 design and internals.
Hope not, it's a terribly intrusive feature especially as it cannot be disabled. Can totally ruin the mood after an episode finishes.
The search is still poor and television still doesn't get subcategories like on the web. Sort order is also inflexible and it's difficult to see what's new.
Over all it's an improvement, but still so much could be better with a bit of effort.
Yes, it can't stream at 1080p HD on the iPhone 6 because the screen resolution is less than 1920x1080
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What good is 1080p on a 750p screen? No reason for the 6 to have it. Besides, 1080p @ 5.5" vs 720p @ 4.7" is REALLY picking at straws as far as actual viewing experience IMHO.
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Comcast has data limits on home ISP services now!? Geez...the US is really getting the shaft connectivity-wise nowadays. The cellular rates have always been excessive, and now the home ISP's are going to that business model???
Not sure I understand the logic...
So that we can use up a huge amount of bandwidth with movies that were not originally shot in 4k, being encoded in 4k, and pushed to you in 4k... and still looking like 1080p movies, but on a 5k monitor?
Why would you want that?
Now if what you mean is that you want something that will allow you to experience the few movies that do exist in 4k to be pushed to your monitor in the resolution... Are you sure the average Netflix user has the bandwidth to support streaming in 4k?
Are you sure we need to commit the resources to 4k (instead of elsewhere in Netflix) at this time?
EDIT:Okay, whoa... I did not know Netflix was already doing 4k. In that case, see the comment above mine.
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The 30 lines of resolution you will get are not worth the bandwidth that will be used multiplied by the downsampling that will happen. I am willing to bet that if someone put an up sampled 720 -> 750 video next to a video that has been down sampled 1080 -> 750, you would not be able to tell the difference. And then if someone told you the bandwidth that is necessary for each, you would be logical enough to select the 720 up sampled version.
I considered the iPhone 6+ for three seconds, then I remembered that I am going to use 100 of percent more bandwidth in 1080 versus 720 entertainment. Once I considered that cost versus how little the difference in viewable area between the devices, I went with the one that didn't kill the budget AND provided entertainment.
So that we can use up a huge amount of bandwidth with movies that were not originally shot in 4k, being encoded in 4k, and pushed to you in 4k... and still looking like 1080p movies, but on a 5k monitor?
Why would you want that?
Now if what you mean is that you want something that will allow you to experience the few movies that do exist in 4k to be pushed to your monitor in the resolution... Are you sure the average Netflix user has the bandwidth to support streaming in 4k?
Are you sure we need to commit the resources to 4k (instead of elsewhere in Netflix) at this time?
EDIT:Okay, whoa... I did not know Netflix was already doing 4k. In that case, see the comment above mine.
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The 30 lines of resolution you will get are not worth the bandwidth that will be used multiplied by the downsampling that will happen. I am willing to bet that if someone put an up sampled 720 -> 750 video next to a video that has been down sampled 1080 -> 750, you would not be able to tell the difference. And then if someone told you the bandwidth that is necessary for each, you would be logical enough to select the 720 up sampled version.
I considered the iPhone 6+ for three seconds, then I remembered that I am going to use 100 of percent more bandwidth in 1080 versus 720 entertainment. Once I considered that cost versus how little the difference in viewable area between the devices, I went with the one that didn't kill the budget AND provided entertainment.
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I have been (impatiently) waiting for WhatsApp to update to support 6/6+ display. I'm to the point where I'm using my 5c to use the app until it's finally updated.
Not everywhere yet but in the bigger cities yes. The monthly limit for most accounts is 300GB a month. Easy to go over if you spend much time looking at Netflix.
Having it always auto play with no user option to turn it off is their best feature? No.
Look in netflix's account settings. There is a switch turn off or on auto play.
There is also a switch to use HTML5 or silverlight.
This is because a lit of ISPs are normally monopolies in certain areas. They have even lobbied to pass laws so municipalities can't run their own cable.
In places where those laws were successfully challenged and the municipality installed their own ISP. The service from the cable company suddenly gets better. Like magic
Yep. I changed that setting months ago when I first heard about it, and I just checked now and confirmed that autoplay is still set to off. But it still always autoplays, at least on previous versions of the iOS app. I'll have to try the new one and I'll be delighted if they finally got around to fixing it. But based on Netflix's history I can't say I'm optimistic.
Aside from it working or not, what kind of idiot company puts a setting like that on their website instead of in the app?
Meh, not worth it to me. I still don't get why replacing Silverlight is a huge deal on OS X, but iOS never even had Silverlight.