Netflix users

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I used the PS3 to stream onto a 10' projection screen. Picture quality was great!

The blue ray rental option costs extra and the selection is limited with (what seemed to me) less disks of each new release available. I ended up waiting forever to get blue ray disks. I finally canceled the option and stuck with DVD. Anything really worth seeing on blue ray, someone in the family ended up buying anyway.
 
I have the $9.99 (1 DVD) option and I love it. I don't have a lot of time for movies, probably watch 2-4 per month at most. Still worth it to not have to pay the late fees and bother with taking movies back.
 
I have the 1 dvd at a time plan,we only have time once or twice a week to watch a vid.We stick it in our mailbox in the rural backwoods on monday,they get it tuesday and we have a new one wednesday.
Nearest good video store is 100 miles round trip so this is alot easier for us.Unforunately cable does not reach us so we tried streaming on our dsl connection.Not good,it had to stop and buffer twice for over 10 minutes.We havent bothered with that again.
 
netflix is the best...i just joined about 2 months ago cause i was sick of the hollywood video by my house charging me $5 bucks for a movie.the last straw was when i returned a movie 1 day late and they wanted to charge me another $5 bucks for one day late.the guy asked if i wanted to pay now and i said no (cause i was not ever going to return and rent another video)i told the guy that there charges were way out of line and that he should start looking for a new job cause netflix was going to put his store out of bussiness in the next 6 months....he chuckled at me like i was crazy.2.5 months later the store closed over night.screw them!!! i have the 2 movie package and its the best,when im done with a movie and send it back i have a new movie in 2 days...its great and way more cost effective!!
 
Something to bare in mind...

Netflix were originally going to use WMV3 codec at 4000kbps and 5500kbps but instead use VC1AP which is between 2600kbps and 3800kbps as it is better for those people with a lower bandwidth.

So that is just 2.6-3.8 Mbps, where as a standard definition DVD I think can do up to 10Mbps, usually about 5-8. So that's already more than netflixs "HD" streams (not HD at all).

Blu ray I think are capable of holding 40Mbps video streams, typical bitrates in the 15-20mbps range.

True HD-15Mbps and up- won't be available for a long time, the infrastructure isn't available in most places to even do it, hampmered by bandwidth and low download speeds. Not to mention the extra cost for the companies who provide the service.

To be frank HD TV broadcasts are better quality than netflix (or the psn store), looking more like dvd quality, especially if you have a nice big tv. Blu ray will always be way better than any movie download service, but with buying blu rays comes cost and I just guess it depends how much of a movie buff you are.
Personally I am just selective with which movies I buy and don't often buy blu rays at release when they are most expensive.
 
3 yrs with netflix, just started streaming with ps3, no issues good picture quality, i have a 52 inch rca hdtv no problems.
 
Been using Netflix since it became available to stream on the 360. I only get 1 disk at at time and mostly stream the stuff i want to watch on both my PC and my 360. no complaints about video quality on my 32 or 42, don't have anything larger to try it on, but think it would be good. Oh, just don't try and download things while streaming the video, then the picture quality goes way down.
 
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