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Netflix App Updated With Retina Artwork, HD Streaming to Come

till said:
It's funny because the basic list of things you're allowed to do with mobile data hasn't really changed since the 90s.

Would be nice to actually *use* that LTE infrastructure, and throttle users in intelligent ways only when necessary, rather than imposing pitifully small data caps.
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With LTE, the networks have basically increased capacity tenfold. They are not likely to increase their customer base tenfold. So, why have they not increased the amount of data available for a given price? Greed and collusion are the only words that come to mind.
 
Entire thread misses point?

Yeah, axe to grind here.

Netflix app kind of blows, it just gets worse.

Pros:
- watch streaming movies on iPad

Cons:
- crashes all the time
- can't browse entire streaming library
- rating movies next to impossible due to poorly implemented UI
- can't manage queue
- streaming library limited
- can't see all films in a genre
- can't sort any list of movies by rating
- can't search by actor or director

Of course Netflix tried to build the app into a streaming only monster. It's a monster alright. A bad, cranky, difficult to use monster.


I'd prefer if the app showed you any movie, streaming or not, and functioned in a browse style more like IMDB. Find a movie, click an actor, see movies that actor is in, etc... search returns nothing if not available to stream, as if the movie doesn't exist and Netflix knows nothing about the movie.
 
perpetuity said:
Yeah, axe to grind here.

Netflix app kind of blows, it just gets worse.

Pros:
- watch streaming movies on iPad

Cons:
- crashes all the time
- can't browse entire streaming library
- rating movies next to impossible due to poorly implemented UI
- can't manage queue
- streaming library limited
- can't see all films in a genre
- can't sort any list of movies by rating
- can't search by actor or director

Of course Netflix tried to build the app into a streaming only monster. It's a monster alright. A bad, cranky, difficult to use monster.


I'd prefer if the app showed you any movie, streaming or not, and functioned in a browse style more like IMDB. Find a movie, click an actor, see movies that actor is in, etc... search returns nothing if not available to stream, as if the movie doesn't exist and Netflix knows nothing about the movie.
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That's netflix for you. After the disaster that their Xbox 360 app has morphed into, I would expect nothing less of the iApp.
 
doelcm82 said:
I don't tweet but the hashtag #firstworldproblems seems appropriate here.

Remember when you had to go to Blockbuster to rent DVD movies, and you'd end up taking several home, not knowing if you'd still be in the mood to watch them by the time you had the opportunity?

Remember when you went to Blockbuster to rent VHS movies, and if you wanted to go back to a scene you had to hit rewind and wait for the spooled tape to get to the spot you wanted to see again? Be sure to rewind the tape before you turn it in, or there will be an additional fee.

Remember when to rent movies you had to join a club where you paid $45 to get in, and you still had to pay $3 each time you exchanged your one rented movie for another (though at least at the end of the six-month membership you got to keep the last tape you rented)?

Remember when renting movies was done at a little Fotomat kiosk in the middle of a parking lot where you dropped off film for overnight developing? You chose from a couple of Xerox pages of movies. I think you had to reserve the movie and come back the next day to get it. It was $8 (in 1981 dollars) for a three-day rental of a Beta videocassette.

Remember when you just had to watch what was on TV? If it was a Saturday afternoon, you had better be in the mood for badly-dubbed Japanese sci-fi.

I remember all of it, and I can't believe how easy we have it now in terms of entertainment choices.
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I remember all of that stuff (and agree with hash tag btw). None of it weakens the arguement for better content delivery though. I'm sure people thought at one time that all those examples you gave were great breakthroughs in their day. Thankfully, we now enjoy more robust ways of doing things because the industry (and consumers) continued to embrace innovation, instead of suggesting that things have come far enough. No reason to stop now.
 
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doelcm82 said:
I don't tweet but the hashtag #firstworldproblems seems appropriate here.

Remember when you had to go to Blockbuster to rent DVD movies, and you'd end up taking several home, not knowing if you'd still be in the mood to watch them by the time you had the opportunity?

Remember when you went to Blockbuster to rent VHS movies, and if you wanted to go back to a scene you had to hit rewind and wait for the spooled tape to get to the spot you wanted to see again? Be sure to rewind the tape before you turn it in, or there will be an additional fee.

Remember when to rent movies you had to join a club where you paid $45 to get in, and you still had to pay $3 each time you exchanged your one rented movie for another (though at least at the end of the six-month membership you got to keep the last tape you rented)?

Remember when renting movies was done at a little Fotomat kiosk in the middle of a parking lot where you dropped off film for overnight developing? You chose from a couple of Xerox pages of movies. I think you had to reserve the movie and come back the next day to get it. It was $8 (in 1981 dollars) for a three-day rental of a Beta videocassette.

Remember when you just had to watch what was on TV? If it was a Saturday afternoon, you had better be in the mood for badly-dubbed Japanese sci-fi.

I remember all of it, and I can't believe how easy we have it now in terms of entertainment choices.
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Yep, I remember all that. Thanks for the reality check ;)
 
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