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Netflix for iOS Updated to Support the iPhone 5's Widescreen
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Firefly, seriously? The show was ok and the movie was what the show should have been.
Alls I'm sayin' is that something better could have been used for this news like I dunno..... one of the Marvel movies on Netflix to coincide with the home release of The Avengers.
Either way, Joss Whedon.
I concur with the idiot remark. Don't really give a schytte over MaryAnn or Ginger...
Yes, if the app is not iPhone 5 ready, the app and the videos, even if it is a wide screen video, gets letter boxed. I thought that if the app used the default player that it would play full screen, even if the app does not have full screen.
so if its a wide screen video in a non-iphone 5 app, it gets double letter boxed, across the top and the sides.
We don't use Blu-Ray because its a bag of hurt.
(/jk)
What's you data charge to watch 10 low quality video and sound semi-HD movies a month?
Having the nearly-16:9 aspect ratio ensures that no pixels on the screen are wasted. If the iPhone 4's size increased in both dimensions so that it was the same resolution as the iPhone 5 Apple made, it would be wasting pixels on black bars.
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Blu Ray is pointless and overpriced when there is Netflix and such.
Awesome! Can't wait for all apps that I use to be updated for iPhone 5.
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I have Netflix and yet, and there are certain movies that need to be watched an any form of 1080p...like...Avengers.
I bought the 4 pack with the BR3D, BR, and DVD w digital download. I will rip the blu-ray to 1080p for the apple tv and only use the digital download for my iphone and 1st gen iPad.
I don't have data, sadly :/
Wait... WOOHOO!
But seriously though, for me personally, I only watch most movies once, and therefore the monthly cost of Netflix is far cheaper than buying the movies I'd want to see on either SD DVD or Blu-Ray.
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Well ... it depends on the particular content. For watching back episodes of Weeds, Madmen, etc., that I won't watch again, Netflix is a +great+ deal (for kids too).
However, when I want the ultimate movie experience, for something I'll watch a few times (Blade Runner for example), none of the streaming services beat optical.
Agreed. The Netflix offer is very satisfactory, as far as I am concerned. And I'm getting tired of the whiners that complain all day long about Netflix, but still pay 15 something bucks a month to have it.
Don't like it? Don't buy it.
That new netflix player sucks. I tell it to turn off close caption and it keeps coming back. Netflix can't even figure out how to keep it turned off. And the audio sometimes is out of sync with the movie. Just one crappy player.
Good luck for finishing 1 movie. iOS6 sucks the battery like a little thirsty animal. They need to abolish the algorith for hunting back and forth between cellular and WiFi signal.
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Oh really? Aren't you the greatest! Show that remark to your significant other, not me!
You're on crack. Absolute resolution is meaningless, pixel density at average viewing distance is what matters. Image scaling works well. Any 720p or 1080p content scaled down to fit on the new iPhone 5 display, at average viewing distances, will look infinitely sharper than the same content on your 1080p TV in your living room. Not even a question.
Absolute resolution is meaningless only when the picture is placed in the Apple reality distortion field. In real life that's the only thing that matters. Every pixel represents a bit of information. When you reduce resolution you lose bits of information thus degrading the quality of the picture. When viewing a movie one can move the screen closer or farther and change the perceptible pixel density (make it "retina" or "sub-retina" or whatever you want it to be) but you can't recover the lost bits of information. If your assumption was correct than 4x4 pixel screen with extremely high pixel density would be superior to HD TV. It is not. That's the reason iPhone screen is inferior to higher resolution Android phone screens when it comes to movie watching (not that I think phone is an appropriate deice for this kind of activity).
It's nice to have the ability to watch podcasts and dialogue-heavy TV shows for which a 4" screen is OK.
However, I'm probably too old to understand what's so great about watching Firefly or any action / sci-fi movie on a screen that size...
Only if you see the iPhone as primarily a video-consumption device. Those "wasted pixels" would have been quite useful for, oh i don't know, EMAIL, WEB BROWSING, GAMES, well, just about everything else. Instead, we have an awkward, long, skinny screen that gives us.......well, an extra row of icons? big whoop.
agreed.
These are the kind of apps that should have update asap before some others, since they kept bragging of no letterboxing with HD video.
I do agree with the others though that they should add the awesome original movies, not the less awesome sequals (Hot Shots, Ice Age, and a few others I can't remember the names of)
I do agree with the others though that they should add the awesome original movies, not the less awesome sequals (Hot Shots, Ice Age, and a few others I can't remember the names of)