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For the first time, Netflix is failing me.

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TheUnk

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I have 11 movies in my queue, and nothing has shipped for over 3 days. They all have waits..

Too many customers, not enough copies!

Probably just the Blu-rays...
 
you need more movies in your queue

mine is somewhere over 100; that way, there is never a delayed shipping. They move to the next available movie.

😉
 
I think Netflix is throttling me. They say they shipped out movies on Monday this week and I haven't received them yet. Last week, they said they shipped out movies and I didn't receive them until Thursday.

I only live a couple of miles from a Netflix distribution center!
 
How many movies do you rent in general? Netflix started throttling us when we were going through our "unlimited" movies too fast.
 
haha sorry there aren't 100's of movies I want to watch that I haven't already seen. There is a reason I rent movies instead of buy them, I rarely watch a movie more than once.

I have 11 in my queue, which is pretty average for me and in the past 4-5 years has never really been a problem.
 
Guys, do you think Netflix streaming would work with a 785G/with Athlon II X4 running at 1.4GHz within Media Center on Windows 7?

I just opened a thread in the wrong place asking the same thing...
 
amdhunter said:
Guys, do you think Netflix streaming would work with a 785G/with Athlon II X4 running at 1.4GHz within Media Center on Windows 7?

I just opened a thread in the wrong place asking the same thing...
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Considering I've got a E5200 Core Duo at 1.8GHz and it runs Netflix streaming just fine, I'd say yeah.

You can at least sign up for the cheapest plan ($8) for a month and find out.
 
Queasy said:
Considering I've got a E5200 Core Duo at 1.8GHz and it runs Netflix streaming just fine, I'd say yeah.

You can at least sign up for the cheapest plan ($8) for a month and find out.
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Yeah, I am planning on signing up in a few minutes. I am installing Windows 7 on my htpc now. 🙂 Do they offer HD streams? Do they work ok?
 
TheUnk said:
haha sorry there aren't 100's of movies I want to watch that I haven't already seen. There is a reason I rent movies instead of buy them, I rarely watch a movie more than once.

I have 11 in my queue, which is pretty average for me and in the past 4-5 years has never really been a problem.
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well, there's literally millions of movies out there. It sounds like the issue is not that you don't re-watch movies, but that your tastes are very limited towards what you actually want to see?

maybe diversify your experiences a bit.

I can honestly say that I've watched a few thousand movies in my lifetime, and a few hundred of those I may have watched multiple time...many, many times in fact.

I never get something from netflix that I've already seen, though...yet my queue is always in the 100+ numbers. There are far too many movies out there, really.
 
I have my list at just over 240, I just paired it down from over 550. So many movies to watch, nowhere near enough time to do so.

KT
 
amdhunter said:
Yeah, I am planning on signing up in a few minutes. I am installing Windows 7 on my htpc now. 🙂 Do they offer HD streams? Do they work ok?
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some of their offerings are in HD, or so they say. It isn't the greatest, but it's pretty good. slightly better than DVD, I'd say. (actually surprisingly good, imo).

some of the streaming stuff is piss poor. Could be Comcast throttling me, though. 😉
 
zinfamous said:
maybe diversify your experiences a bit.
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yeah, have you watched this

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Looking at my history it looks live I've had Netflix since 2004. This it the first real problem I've had getting movies..

The problem is not that I don't have lots of crap movies in my queue that I don't want to watch.

The problem is that Netflix now has too many customers and not enough copies.

Probably because of what JS80 said, Profit pressures + no competition = this result.
 
TheUnk said:
Looking at my history it looks live I've had Netflix since 2004. This it the first real problem I've had getting movies..

The problem is not that I don't have lots of crap movies in my queue that I don't want to watch.

The problem is that Netflix now has too many customers and not enough copies.

Probably because of what JS80 said, Profit pressures + no competition = this result.
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But waiting 28 days for new WB releases will benefit everyone!
 
TheUnk said:
I have 11 movies in my queue, and nothing has shipped for over 3 days. They all have waits..

Too many customers, not enough copies!

Probably just the Blu-rays...
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This is why I dropped the Blu-ray option from my NetFlix. They jacked up the price big time, yet every Blu-ray was always on a "Very Long" wait. I have no problems when I went with just DVD, except for Terminator: Salvation. Even Star Trek, for example, was in my mailbox the day after it was released.
 
TheUnk said:
You think a lot of them are rented out and can't be returned because of the snow? Interesting..
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no more along the lines of the mail being slow in that area. i'm not sure where netflix is based just thought maybe that was a part of the issue.
 
amdhunter said:
Yeah, I am planning on signing up in a few minutes. I am installing Windows 7 on my htpc now. 🙂 Do they offer HD streams? Do they work ok?
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They only allow computers to watch streaming in standard def. They save the HD bandwidth for people using bluray players, rokus, and consoles that support netflix streaming. The computer streaming looks just ok.

All the new releases are on waits on my list but I have 100+ movies on it so it usually isn't a big deal. They really don't like it when you watch and return movies really quickly. The last few weeks I haven't been getting my shipments on time. I've assumed its the crappy weather slowing the mail down. Should have had 2 movies shipped out today but they aren't showing that my returns showed up.
 
thedarkwolf said:
They only allow computers to watch streaming in standard def. They save the HD bandwidth for people using bluray players, rokus, and consoles that support netflix streaming. The computer streaming looks just ok.

All the new releases are on waits on my list but I have 100+ movies on it so it usually isn't a big deal. They really don't like it when you watch and return movies really quickly. The last few weeks I haven't been getting my shipments on time. I've assumed its the crappy weather slowing the mail down. Should have had 2 movies shipped out today but they aren't showing that my returns showed up.
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Ah, that sucks. I don't really know if I want it then. I've been watching mainly HD content on my htpc. I'll still give it a go, but thats disappointing.
 
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