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nightsurge on 13 November 2009

It's 720p.



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twesterm on 13 November 2009
dbot said:
It takes a couple of seconds to buffer. I watched 2 movies with zero lag. Both the video and audio is highly compressed, same as Xbox and PC. Movie library is awful.

It's only awful if you only like thehuge new blockbusters.  If you have a sense of adventure, it's great (I still have 300+ movies in my queue and I use Netflix constantly).

That said, I wasn't really happy with the PS3 Netflix, or I guess it's not that I was unhappy, I was just happier with it on the 360.  Standard movies stay in standard on the PS3 which by itself isn't a huge deal, but when I know other methods do it better, I'll go with the other one.

Once I got use to the interface though, I like how it's setup.  The only thing I didn't like was going back in episodes on a season.



 

whatever on 13 November 2009
twesterm said:
dbot said:
It takes a couple of seconds to buffer. I watched 2 movies with zero lag. Both the video and audio is highly compressed, same as Xbox and PC. Movie library is awful.

It's only awful if you only like thehuge new blockbusters.  If you have a sense of adventure, it's great (I still have 300+ movies in my queue and I use Netflix constantly).

That said, I wasn't really happy with the PS3 Netflix, or I guess it's not that I was unhappy, I was just happier with it on the 360.  Standard movies stay in standard on the PS3 which by itself isn't a huge deal, but when I know other methods do it better, I'll go with the other one.

Once I got use to the interface though, I like how it's setup.  The only thing I didn't like was going back in episodes on a season.

You'd rather have the 360 upscale the video than your TV?  Unless your TV is lousy, I can't imagine it's not better at upscaling than the 360.



dbot on 13 November 2009
whatever said:
twesterm said:
dbot said:
It takes a couple of seconds to buffer. I watched 2 movies with zero lag. Both the video and audio is highly compressed, same as Xbox and PC. Movie library is awful.

It's only awful if you only like thehuge new blockbusters.  If you have a sense of adventure, it's great (I still have 300+ movies in my queue and I use Netflix constantly).

That said, I wasn't really happy with the PS3 Netflix, or I guess it's not that I was unhappy, I was just happier with it on the 360.  Standard movies stay in standard on the PS3 which by itself isn't a huge deal, but when I know other methods do it better, I'll go with the other one.

Once I got use to the interface though, I like how it's setup.  The only thing I didn't like was going back in episodes on a season.

You'd rather have the 360 upscale the video than your TV?  Unless your TV is lousy, I can't imagine it's not better at upscaling than the 360.

Agreed, you would probably want to set your source to native resolution and let your TV handle it.  

Regarding the library, I wish the only thing that was missing were the new releases.  I think that people are under the impression that the Netflix streaming solution gives you access to the same Netflix DVD/Blu-ray library, but that's not the case.  Almost all of the movies are several years old, and they weren't good movies when they initially released. 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

nightsurge on 13 November 2009
dbot said:
whatever said:
twesterm said:
dbot said:
It takes a couple of seconds to buffer. I watched 2 movies with zero lag. Both the video and audio is highly compressed, same as Xbox and PC. Movie library is awful.

It's only awful if you only like thehuge new blockbusters.  If you have a sense of adventure, it's great (I still have 300+ movies in my queue and I use Netflix constantly).

That said, I wasn't really happy with the PS3 Netflix, or I guess it's not that I was unhappy, I was just happier with it on the 360.  Standard movies stay in standard on the PS3 which by itself isn't a huge deal, but when I know other methods do it better, I'll go with the other one.

Once I got use to the interface though, I like how it's setup.  The only thing I didn't like was going back in episodes on a season.

You'd rather have the 360 upscale the video than your TV?  Unless your TV is lousy, I can't imagine it's not better at upscaling than the 360.

Agreed, you would probably want to set your source to native resolution and let your TV handle it.  

Regarding the library, I wish the only thing that was missing were the new releases.  I think that people are under the impression that the Netflix streaming solution gives you access to the same Netflix DVD/Blu-ray library, but that's not the case.  Almost all of the movies are several years old, and they weren't good movies when they initially released. 

The 360 has a very good upscaler chip.  Probably much better than you will find in most HDTVs.  That's why upscaler chips are in DVD players, Blu-Ray players, and most other devices since most HDTVs don't have good upscalers themselves.



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Smidlee on 13 November 2009

From what I've read and experience 360 upscaler isn't that good especially like those found in Blu-ray and DVD players.



skeezer on 13 November 2009

How can I get the cd?



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twesterm on 13 November 2009
whatever said:
twesterm said:
dbot said:
It takes a couple of seconds to buffer. I watched 2 movies with zero lag. Both the video and audio is highly compressed, same as Xbox and PC. Movie library is awful.

It's only awful if you only like thehuge new blockbusters.  If you have a sense of adventure, it's great (I still have 300+ movies in my queue and I use Netflix constantly).

That said, I wasn't really happy with the PS3 Netflix, or I guess it's not that I was unhappy, I was just happier with it on the 360.  Standard movies stay in standard on the PS3 which by itself isn't a huge deal, but when I know other methods do it better, I'll go with the other one.

Once I got use to the interface though, I like how it's setup.  The only thing I didn't like was going back in episodes on a season.

You'd rather have the 360 upscale the video than your TV?  Unless your TV is lousy, I can't imagine it's not better at upscaling than the 360.

All I know is I watch a standard movie on my PS3 and my TV switched to 480p and it looked like 480p and then I watched the same movie on my 360 and my TV stayed in 1080p and the movie looked pretty good (nowhere near the quality of an actual HD movie, but still good).



 

kitler53 on 13 November 2009
skeezer said:
How can I get the cd?

http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevicesDetails?pdid=105&lnkce=nrd-d&trkid=1473817&lnkctr=nrd-d-n-105-playstation3system



Kantor on 13 November 2009

Shocking. I never would have guessed that an HD movie streaming service would be in HD on an HD console.



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