Got a new television 50 inch Sony.No advertisement for the company but what a clear picture.
It also connect up to the internet so last night joined Netflix.Six pound a month is a fair price for so many films to see.One month free.I like a good film I'm not paying Murdochs sky high price anymore a rip off in my opinion.
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The TV series are the best thing about it. Been a subscriber since the early days and it works well. I have the app on tablet and Smart TV (Samsung) and it's very easy to use.
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My opinion may not be shared but, like the Murdochs, much of what Netflix offer is not worth seeing. What is, is not that easy to find. Of that, most British material (not all) does not have subtitles, which rules it out for me. The American stuff does which makes it marginally worth while, especially as I was given an Apple TV in the first place.
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I feel similarly about Amazon Prime Video, Ambo. We slipped into that from out old Lovefilm DVD subscription, but with a few enjoyable exceptions (Inception, Moneyball) the films on offer are unrecognizable rubbish, with the few gems hard to find among the dross.
TV is a similar mixture. We've enjoyed introducing the Beestlings to Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, but once we've finished those I don't see much beyond Sherlock. They've even told me they're pulling Scrubs at the end of the month.
Is there a published list of current Netflix content I can see somewhere that might help me decide whether or not to jump?
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Don't know about a published list wildebeest.
Plenty of films and shows to choose from.I only decided last night signed in and a month free. Cancel anytime if you don't like it.
We where watching a good film this afternoon and there is plenty of stuff for the kids.
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>>Is there a published list of current Netflix content
You had only to ask.....
netflix.maft.uk/catalogue
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Plenty there can't do links anymore or photos don't know why on this laptop.
Probable me.
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Something you can do on a PC/Mac that's handy is accessing another region's Netflix service. Not everything is viewable. I only did this to watch something when in Germany for 10 days earlier in the year. Germany do not have Netflix (yet) and I was watching a series with many episodes so watched a fair bit in the evenings.
I only joined Netflix to watch Breaking Bad which I'd got into.
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Browsing that list... Don't ever watch the Bicycle Thief! :-) An Italian film that is sooooo depressing. I won't spoil the ending but really don't watch it! I can't remember why I got it from Lovefilm/Tesco now (we watch a lot of world cinema)... but it was one I wished I hadn't got.
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I was going to offer you my own don't-watch film in exchange but it's not there. Probably just as well.
Thanks, NoFM, just what I was after.
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Netflix does not do it for me. Sure it has a large catalogue, but when you start to sort through it you realise how much dross it contains. Major feature films take ages to appear there, so if there is anything new I want to see, I see at the cinema and make an evening of it. Anything that does not warrant that expense I steal off the net. I also see any US series I need within hours of first broadcast in the US, or even live.
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Will, where did you get to with your Netflix decision?
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>> I feel similarly about Amazon Prime Video,
Talking about dross on Amazon Prime, you are mostly right it is dross.
However
I happened upon, late in the day, a TV Series they made called Bosch. Its based on the novels by Michael Connelly, and as he co wrote the screenplay it is very good in capturing the dark cynical suspenseful nature of the books. Well directed, well shot, but in making it "dark and suspenseful" the audio is a bit mumbly.
Very good, catch it if you can.
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Will try.
Signed up for a month's trial of Netflix - maybe more than a month ago now but there's enough there to make it worth £6 to stay on. Have watched bits of House of Cards and lots of Black Books, plus half of the TV Fargo, which is great, dark, snowy fun.
Much will depend on how I feel when I've exhausted the 'Gosh, they've got that' feeling, as I have with Amazon. I get the impression Netflix does more to keep the catalogue fresh, but we'll have to see.
In other streaming news, I did get - and take - the offer of a year's Deezer Elite via Sonos for £120. Will report on quality once I've had a decent chance to listen.
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>>Signed up for a month's trial of Netflix - maybe more than a month ago now but there's enough there to make it worth
How easy is it to know what is available?
Can you record stuff?
Do you get a feeling how often stuff is refreshed? Or indeed, how long it remains?
Do you know, or can you check, how widely available [Spanish] subtitles are? Are there subtitles for everything or what?
And anything else useful you can think of mentioning.
MiL wants Netflix to watch *all* her favourite television and only speaks Spanish. Well, Spanish and Cackling.
This brings me two responsibilities;
1) Set it up, get it working
2) Take the blame for the entire of Netflix if she doesn't like the programs.
I am trying to dissuade her, but so far I'm losing ground.
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I have both Netflix and Amazon prime streaming, also by virtue of the old Lovefilm account.
Netflix I watch daily, but only because I use mediahint to see the US version, so I can see Frasier. Once I've seen all those (only 20 episodes to go, sob) I might not continue. But I also enjoyed Lilyhammer - New York mafia guy has to leave the country and ends up in Norway.
I'd not bother with the UK version of Netflix I don't think - too limited.
Amazon streaming - the UK version - have only really watched all the fifties and sixties sci-fi, some of which was great fun, and I like Black Sails, which is entirely gratuitous with unnecessary gory murders and rampant lesbianism, but arrr, it's pirates, Billy boy, so I can forgive it a lot.
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>> How easy is it to know what is available?
Via the Netflix website, browsing is lousy in my opinion. For UK content there's this web page:
netflix.maft.uk/catalogue
I don't know the equivalent for other regions. There's a lot more on the US Netflix service - quite easy to trick a browser into connecting to the US service. And lots more programmes available.
>> Can you record stuff?
Not easily - I've not tried to get around this. But the media streams are accessible with a URL so maybe someone could download directly from the source?
Which region would you try to watch? You're in Chile. So you'd need to access the USA, UK, etc. If you just opened a browser it would say the service is not available.
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Actually there might be a Chilean Netflix service. Presumably lots of Spanish content?
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>>Actually there might be a Chilean Netflix service.
Seemingly there is, but I'll be damned if I can find out what's available on it.
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>> I happened upon, late in the day, a TV Series they made called Bosch. Its
>> based on the novels by Michael Connelly
Ha - just started reading one of those on Monday, 'The Black Echo' (free Kindle version because of something else I bought I think). Wasn't aware of the TV series. Good so far...
www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Echo-Harry-Bosch-Book-ebook/dp/B008HIO15M
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>> Ha - just started reading one of those on Monday, 'The Black Echo' (free Kindle
>> version because of something else I bought I think).
Exactly the same way I got into it. I had just bought the latest Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer, and the Bosch book, Black Echo, was offered to me free.
Clearly a great marketing ploy, with the series being available on prime.
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 18 Mar 15 at 15:35
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On the subject of subtitles, looking at just one programme as test a test on the Chilean Netflix it seems the choice of subtitles is Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese. It was for Prison Break anyway. Copying the exact same URL into another browser not pretending it was in Chile showed the same programme but the subtitles available were English.
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So if you have a Netflix username/password it works from which ever country you're in but gives you the programming from that country?
Is there anyway to download a list of the programming available?
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>> So if you have a Netflix username/password it works from which ever country you're in
>> but gives you the programming from that country?
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>> Is there anyway to download a list of the programming available?
Well, I went to the chilean netflix site, and when I went to log in it picked up my locale and offered me a uk login site.
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>> Well, I went to the chilean netflix site, and when I went to log in it picked up my locale and
>> offered me a uk login site.
And if Mark goes to the UK site or US he'd be asked to logon to the Chilean site. Unless you do something to force it to use a particular site.
A logon to Netflix gives you access to the content in any country, i.e. travel to the US (or mess around with hiding where you're connecting from) and you can use the 'UK' logon for the US site.
I first did this when I was in Germany last year to watch a series I'd been watching. Germany had no Netflix. It's all about what agreements they have in place in each country.
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I've read every Bosch book written.
Saw the first 5 episodes of the TV series.
Won't bother with any more, it just failed to engage me.
The bloke who plays Bosch does not have a moustache and in the storyline is supposed to be ex-military from the Gulf wars, not Vietnam!
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>> Saw the first 5 episodes of the TV series.
>> Won't bother with any more, it just failed to engage me.
Seen three so far, got me engaged so far.
>> The bloke who plays Bosch does not have a moustache and in the storyline is
>> supposed to be ex-military from the Gulf wars, not Vietnam!
An ex Vietnam tunnel rat would be retired by now, so to shift the character on to present time you just shift wars. Im not so pedantic enough to allow that to be an issue, its a perfectly valid update.
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The tunnel thing reminds me that I read a Bosch book once. It must have made a profound impression because I can't remember a single other thing about it.
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Justi case anyone finds this useful. A list of over 90 "good" movies to be found on UK Netflix as of today.
No idea whether they are or not, but there is usually some value of some sort in a curated list.
www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/digital-home/3529025/94-best-movies-on-netflix-uk-2015
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Watching Wallander at the moment excellent Swedish version.I remember the places Malmo Helsingborg and Salversborg.
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Netflix. - DP
