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Netflix for iPad App Now Available in App Store

christall109 said:
Now I wonder if you can start watching the movie over wifi, then pause, let the movie fully download, then watch the remaining movie on the go. Now that would be cool.

Don't forget about all the tv shows available through netflix too!
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You, you can't/won't be able to do this. Netflix does not have the right to do anything but stream the files of these movies. They don't have the right to provide you with downloaded files to watch.

I know it sounds like a minor difference, but it is a legal clarification.
 
marksman said:
This completes my plan for the iPad bathroom mount that will be on the wall across from the toilet.

WOOHOO!

I would add the cool thing with this is power and resource wise I suspect you will get a superior streaming experience with Netflix on the iPad than you will get on most notebooks.
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Please share with us your bathroom mount design once you have done it. i would really like to make one too.
thanks
 
CalfCanuck said:
I just bought a 46" HDTV, and bought a BluRay with WiFi streaming because it plays Netflix on the internet enabled player. So why should Netflix care what device you use to get from their servers onto your TV?

BTW, the WiFi signal on the BluRay player (via my 5 year old Netgear router) was only 3 out of 5 bars, but the one movie I streamed to watch was UNBELIEVABLE. Quality was much better than via my hard-wired Mac Pro, with 18GB of RAM, high end graphics cards, and a nice Eizo monitor. Netflix must really optimize their movies to take advantage of the upscaling/decompression on new BluRay players...
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most drivers for PC and device graphics have hardware HD assist for the graphics work to be done by the GPU. Quicktime doesn't seem to do this and there is no flash GPU hardware assist for OS X either
 
macnerd77 said:
Please share with us your bathroom mount design once you have done it. i would really like to make one too.
thanks
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marksman.....

I second that. I'll buy the bathroom mount too.

Looks like you're in business!!!! Like what normal person wouldn't want a bathroom mount. TV in the bathroom is so hot.
 
CalfCanuck said:
I just bought a 46" HDTV, and bought a BluRay with WiFi streaming because it plays Netflix on the internet enabled player. So why should Netflix care what device you use to get from their servers onto your TV?
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It's not about Netflix caring, it's about Apple.
I've had every iteration of iPhone since original launch date. I also have/use the adaptor that connects iPhone to TV, regularly. It's great but only works with the iPod app (specifically video, obviously) on iPhone (& I think photo slide shows maybe?). Anyway, YouTube doesn't display, no games or any other apps. So my specific question is I wonder if Apple will allow the iPad Netflix app to display on a TV with said adaptor. ;)
 
lazyrighteye said:
It's not about Netflix caring, it's about Apple.
I've had every iteration of iPhone since original launch date. I also have/use the adaptor that connects iPhone to TV, regularly. It's great but only works with the iPod app (specifically video, obviously) on iPhone (& I think photo slide shows maybe?). Anyway, YouTube doesn't display, no games or any other apps. So my specific question is I wonder if Apple will allow the iPad Netflix app to display on a TV with said adaptor. ;)
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My understanding from the MacBreak Weekly review, is that the iPad app has to be written specifically to allow external display, and also has the configuration as to what should be externally displayed. A good example is iPad Keynote. I doubt that Netflix would write the app so that movies could be displayed externally, but it would be nice.
 
Why is this allowed?

Isn't this duplication of functionality with iTunes since it sells movies?
Why does Apple pick and choose who gets to violate their policies?
Why can't Opera get their browser on there?
Why can't Google get Google Voice on there?

Side note:
I'm actually happy that someone stole my iPod a couple weeks ago.
I am now Apple-Free like I always wanted to be. The only reason I had it in the first place is because my girlfriend won it at her companies holiday party.
 
llurgy said:
Thanks, I guess 1mb isnt going to cut it then? :) Darn rural living :)
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Tough to know. The Xbox version gracefully degrades when the speed goes down. I used to have that happen from time to time when it first came out. Sure you could tell the difference but it still looked pretty good. If it got really bad, I would back out and start again and it would usually go back to HD or just high-quality SD. You may be OK.
 
FunkyELF said:
Isn't this duplication of functionality with iTunes since it sells movies?
Why does Apple pick and choose who gets to violate their policies?
Why can't Opera get their browser on there?
Why can't Google get Google Voice on there?

Side note:
I'm actually happy that someone stole my iPod a couple weeks ago.
I am now Apple-Free like I always wanted to be. The only reason I had it in the first place is because my girlfriend won it at her companies holiday party.
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Because its their policies...I believe with GV it was more in how they did it. It sounded like it look over, not saying its true. The issue with browsers is they don't allow anything that can run other code. Browsers run JavaScript...There are several music apps and ebook apps, so why not movies?
 
i suppose on holiday in the caribbean it is unusable? one needs to be in the us?
 
See my inline answers

FunkyELF said:
Isn't this duplication of functionality with iTunes since it sells movies?
The sell music too, did they stop pandora from being in the app store?
Why does Apple pick and choose who gets to violate their policies?
Some circumvent the services for illegal gains.Some would use Google to not pay for what they legally should be
Why can't Opera get their browser on there?
Control of system
Why can't Google get Google Voice on there?
See question and answer 2

Side note:
I'm actually happy that someone stole my iPod a couple weeks ago.
I am now Apple-Free like I always wanted to be. The only reason I had it in the first place is because my girlfriend won it at her companies holiday party.
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The movie in the picture is a good one: 2 days in paris.

Well it's a good one if you enjoy quality dialog and well acted characters. If you are prone to drinking 2 liters of high fructose containing beverage a day then you probably can't sit still long enough to enjoy it (or read an ibook for that matter) and you would probably enjoy something with explosions much more.
 
ten-oak-druid said:
The movie in the picture is a good one: 2 days in paris.

Well it's a good one if you enjoy quality dialog and well acted characters. If you are prone to drinking 2 liters of high fructose containing beverage a day then you probably can't sit still long enough to enjoy it (or read an ibook for that matter) and you would probably enjoy something with explosions much more.
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netflix streaming has opened my eyes to indepents, and foreign films. I prefer them to US megabusters. Better stories, and better direction.
 
mosx said:
Netflix does dynamic server-side video encoding depending on your connection speed. They can stream as low as 384Kbps, but it won't look too spectacular. They should be able to give you a decent SD stream at around 1Mbps.

Netflix really doesn't require that much bandwidth. Right now my non-burst speed is 19Mbps average. The other day I was streaming an HD movie on my Xbox 360 while downloading the 10.6.3 combo update at 2MBps (about 16Mbps), and the movie didn't skip a beat nor did the download slow down.

Netflix is currently offering a 1 month free trial if you're not already a member. Nothing special to get that 1 month trial, just go to the main website, www.netflix.com So you've got a month to see if you like it. That includes the 3 out at a time with unlimited streaming and blu-ray access if you'd like.
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Thank you, very valuable information :)
 
ElZeus said:
wtb Iphone version.
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There is no way they are going to release an app for the iPhone or iPod touch, if they did, they would have to deal with the fact that both devices have significantly lower resolution, there is no way to comfortably watch a movie on such a small screen, keep in mind that most, if not all movies are designed for larger screens.

Try reading text on a page shown in a movie on a screen the size of an iPhone. Try seeing that guy in the background or just far away, without higher resolution, you wont be able to recognize that guy, the list can go on and on and quite frankly, it's obvious, there's a reason we watch movies with high resolution TVs, this device is probably the lowest resolution that Netflix is willing to support, they also have to consider the overall customer satisfaction, which I'm sure would be reduced if they released it for small devices.

On a side note, the iPad and iPhone use pretty much the same software, if they really wanted it on both devices, I'm fairly certain it would have been done at the same time.
 
email from VP at netflix

Steven,

Regarding i Phone: We wouldn't invite you over for dinner and not want you to stay for dessert. (We're working on it.)

Steve Swasey | Vice President, Corporate Communications | NETFLIX | 100 Winchester Circle | Los Gatos, CA. 95032

i emailed him this morning asking about iphone compatibility and this was the reply!
 
anthonymoody said:
That may be true on existing NFLX streaming platforms, it may or may not be true on the iPad. We don't know what bitrate the video is that they're streaming so . . .
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I do know that they adjust the bitrate based on available bandwidth.
 
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