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Netflix performance on Verizon?
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I'm trying it now with a random movie (The Machinist).
Seems OK. A bit pixel-y but I've never used Netfiix over cellular before. Looks better on WiFi.
Seems OK. A bit pixel-y but I've never used Netfiix over cellular before. Looks better on WiFi.
I used it the last few days. The very first time on Verizon 3G it started out for maybe a min. pixelated, like a bad youtube video. After that one time it has worked just fine, Maybe not as clear as on wifi. I may live in a better Verizon data area than others, so that would be a factor in it as well.
I would call it shockingly watchable. I'm surprised. My BB couldn't handle playing youtube videos AT ALL in the same area. The picture quality isn't great, but it doesn't have to stop and buffer either.
Flawless for me and it's in one of the locations I know my speed is not at it's peak (as I mentioned somewhere else I work in the HQ for a large internet based company so it's not the friendliest place for Cell signal due to the fact there's enough cabling and computer crap in this building to network Skynet).
I just streamed the first 10mins of Superman: The Movie from Netflix (pleasantly surprised to see it was in Widescreen, too, as the last time I saw it was on a 4:3 release).
Anyways it took about 30 seconds to start (the Loading screens) and then it was flawless. It didn't start out pixely (I checked by restarting the movie in a few diff places after that).
Can't complain. I wasn't expecting it to be such a smooth and solid performance since I know the building kills my Cell abilities a little bit, but definitely did a great job.
I just streamed the first 10mins of Superman: The Movie from Netflix (pleasantly surprised to see it was in Widescreen, too, as the last time I saw it was on a 4:3 release).
Anyways it took about 30 seconds to start (the Loading screens) and then it was flawless. It didn't start out pixely (I checked by restarting the movie in a few diff places after that).
Can't complain. I wasn't expecting it to be such a smooth and solid performance since I know the building kills my Cell abilities a little bit, but definitely did a great job.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_6 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8E200 Safari/6533.18.5)
Just a friendly reminder about Netflix, it constantly adjusts based on active connection. Even on wifi when your conn gets worse it will pixilate a bit, then go back to clear when things improve.
On a side note, I'm still amazed at this display.. I watched Netflix last night and thought back to the handheld TVs of decades past and chuckled to myself about how far we've come..
Just a friendly reminder about Netflix, it constantly adjusts based on active connection. Even on wifi when your conn gets worse it will pixilate a bit, then go back to clear when things improve.
On a side note, I'm still amazed at this display.. I watched Netflix last night and thought back to the handheld TVs of decades past and chuckled to myself about how far we've come..
My thoughts exactly. Not a fanboy. I just want my stuff to work and my iPhone 4 for Verizon, Just Works!
I'm amazed that you would pay $30 a month for something that's just "icing on the cake" and that you don't really care about.
I haven't had any problems at all. In fact I really can't tell a difference from 3G to WiFi. Also YouTube for me is flawless as well. 
Verizon iphone wont stream netflix
Hi, this is my first post here and i am new here. I have a verizon iphone, and i tried netflix on my phone and it says it is not supported. What can i do to watch netflix on here? Thanks.
Hi, this is my first post here and i am new here. I have a verizon iphone, and i tried netflix on my phone and it says it is not supported. What can i do to watch netflix on here? Thanks.
Um, I'm on ATT, so this is kinda off topic. Forgive me. But I was on the bus watching Ira and Abby on Netflix, and it was FLAWLESS! Could not believe how awesome it looked.
No pixelation. No lag. It was... awesome. Even with only 2 bars of 3G reception.
No pixelation. No lag. It was... awesome. Even with only 2 bars of 3G reception.
Haven't really used netflix much, but tried it out a few times and it looks pretty good... I did watch a couple of hours of the live world cup cricket stream from willow.tv while I was at the bar the other night and it was amazingly watchable... a little tricky to read the scores at the bottom of the screen, but that's more due to my poor old eyes than the iPhone.
I tried it at work one day shortly after I got my Verizon iPhone, and I could not believe how clear it was over 3G. Especially since Verizon's 3G is so freaking slow. But the movie started playing almost instantly, there was no buffering, and it was surprisingly clear.
On a slightly related note, I've watched it on my iPad before via Wi-Fi and it's just about perfect that way.
On a slightly related note, I've watched it on my iPad before via Wi-Fi and it's just about perfect that way.
I will definitely try this on my road trip to California. I will let everyone know how it went, I leave Monday. Since I am not doing the driving, I get to relax to a movie & headphones. (So do the other passengers). When I do drive, obviously not 
Works perfect for me. Same quality as when viewing over wifi, just takes a few seconds longer to get up to full quality.
We should hear from those that have had ATT and made the switch cause there is a difference. Only a VZW customer who has always been a VZW customer wouldn't notice a difference.