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When 1080p HD is not enough Own an Overpriced 4K UHDTV & want to pay even more for the service? why not switch to 4K stream? it's been a while since Netflix stated to get on the 4K bandwagon , We got quite a few shows in 4k such as Breaking Bad & House of Cards on 4K recently,Good news is that for those who've already signed up for a 4K-enabled account, it won't affect your price & it will not change until August 12th of the year 2016 But If you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber who hasn’t already enabled 4K content, your monthly price will be $11.99 (vs the standard $8.99 that most new subscribers pay which, itself, went up from $7.99 back in May). Thats a hike of about 33%. Leave your thoughts & rants below , Also tell me what are your thoughts on 4K & it's pricings , do you think 4K is un-nessesary thing to go after for a premium experience.. http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/netflix-raises-the-price-for-those-who-want-ultra-hd-video/

FINALLY Netflix streaming services are available for Linux users (although only in google chrome inside of Ubuntu and Fedora) I guess we are nearer Linux desktop domination now. More new games and adobe porting their damn suite from mac, (I guess that would be easier than from windows), and we might see a much more widespread adoption . Original Link: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/10/netflix-now-finally-works-on-linux/

Holy shit this selection of horror movies:

So why is this not on here yet? Can someone please tell me this is a repost please! so Apparently Netflix went live in Germany without anyone telling me. I can't log on though "Leider kann Ihre Anfrage derzeit nicht bearbeitet werden. Bitte versuchen Sie es später erneut." (means: "try again later") well I doubt it's their servers unable to handle the load... don't have much solid info on the range of media avlibl, not first hand anyway link (literally the first hit on google) Source: the internet! also Netflix P.S. I'll be back once the acc is set up and I know more. Edit: I think they went live today so I'll probably trying again tomorrow if it's not working in the next half hour, it's getting late and I'm not as young as I used to be. get you free month now? Oh hells yes!

*snippy snip snip*

Good enough for my needs. I really like the ability to connect headphones to the remote. Cancels audio to TV et al. (yeah I realize the title has an grammatical error. "Not available in Canada" typo, get over it. I have....

When i try to watch something on Netflix, the loading thingy gets stuck at 21%.

It was bound to happen because of them having to pay for ISP bs. It's only 1-2 dollars though so not so bad and apparently it's so they can get new content. Idk it's not too bad now but i feel like its gonna get worse soon enough...and its not just gonna be netflix. The Verge article: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5637248/netflix-will-raise-subscription-prices-new-members

Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=www.dagbladet.no%2F2014%2F03%2F07%2Fkultur%2Ffilter%2Ftv%2Fstromming%2Fnetflix%2F32183051%2F (original is in Norwegian) I hope it does not become a trend...

I know its possible, but how would one go about doing it? The intent is to route certain traffic like netflix through the VPN (intercountry link) and have normal data go through the normal WAN so i can use my "unmetered data" I could do it with static routes and two routers, but can i use something like ddwrt to create a virtual WAN? Any and All suggestions welcome.

Google Fiber teams up with Netflix Yep Google is teaming up with Netflix to take down the evil ISP's (namely comcast). Mainly they are advocating the Open Connect Program with Netflix (which puts netflix boxes in the ISP offices and connect to network directly so have a faster connection i believe) and asking the FCC to ban Fastlanes/tolls on direct connection. They are also trying to pull up the veil of bullshit that ISP's have placed over everyone's eyes and i think they are doing a pretty good job of it. The sad thing is that i don't think Google would do this if it wasn't in their best interest to do it. Edit: This isn;t an edit more like an addition. Ars Technica just put up an article on this, figured id just put it here sense its a similar topic. Why Google Fiber, unlike Comcast, gives Netflix free peering well i was gonna write about what the article said but after skimming it i decided that its about the same stuff so i guess i'll just be another source lol. Feel free to read it and put in some of the details i excluded.

Could Netflix actually be slowing down their data themselves? They are known for having a deal with Comcast and was upset when Comcast was about to buy TimeWarner they started a little fight between the two ISPs during their earnings report. Comcast got upset with Netflix and told them and the press that Netflix is at fault for the slow content and connection issues, because they run all of their information through another company called Cogent. Cogent is just the middle man of the whole process of getting the content to your house and you have to keep in mind that all the companies are trying to make it someone else's fault. here is the full article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27726248

I never got a warning notification so I forgot I was even signed up for the free trial, and I just canceled literally a few hours too late. I'm guessing that was my stupid mistake and I'm not going to be able to do anything about this right?

http://davesblog.com/blog/2014/02/05/verizon-using-recent-net-neutrality-victory-to-wage-war-against-netflix/ David Raphael displayed a conversation he had with a Verizon support rep showing that indeed, Verizon was throttling his Netflix streaming quality.

I have always wanted my parents to get netflix and they did with a free month and I am pretty sure they are going to continue netflix. I know they do not offer the newest stuff but some things are new. They include the walking dead and American Horror story. I love netflix its unlimited stuff to watch for hours on computer, smart tvs, smart blu-ray players, smartphones and tablets.

I spent my summer doing DevOps work on Amazon Web Services to configure a NoSQL database at work. Here's my take on the whats going on with Netflix and its bandwidth problems. The VPN/VPC discussed by Netflix, is a networking devise that would have provisioned bandwidth between ISPs and AWS. As I will discuss below, the ISPs don't necessarily have to enter the picture. Netflix need only configure a larger cluster, with a better storage system to increase total bandwidth to the ISPs in general. Its not necesarry about bandwidth to the ISP, what is lagging is the system itself. Netflix's decision to publicize the ISP's refusal to install a VPN/VPC is all a smokescreen for an internal lack of robustness inherent to Netflix's deployment from a revenue/cost perspective and a general mistake in choice for distributive architecture. They should have gone with HBase. I don't feel its fair that Netflix gets to blame ISPs for drops in performance even if they are directly competing for market share. Netflix along with AWS have many service level agreements and other terms of service with may Internet Service Providers. These agreement are not something to be trifled with. Any measurable degradation in bandwidth would come at a cost to the revenues of an ISP. From a high level the bandwidth provided by Amazon Web Services is highly limited at times and depending on the market demand, it can be prohibitively expensive to supply the bandwidth necessary to match the performance demands at particular hours of a given day. Netflix runs off a NoSQL database called Cassandra, the architecture is less resilient than Hadoop. In either distributed system, the architecture allocates local storage and compute to distributively process data. When you start streaming, you’re asking it to perform a persistent task that requires consistent bandwidth. The VPN/VPC they are proposing is to get around the general output cost of streaming from S3. S3 has a pricing model for all the data that goes out to Netflix subscribers. At some point it goes about $10 and Netflix just says to itself, we're losing money from having too much high availability. If we reduce the bandwidth, we'll get charged less by AWS and still get out $10 a month from customers. The big advantage for many businesses that choose to host their services in the cloud at AWS is its availability, scalability, and on-demand cost model. So traditionally services hosted in the cloud at AWS are engineered to scale with demand even big demand. Who want's to throw a party and run out of beer because everybody showed up? Here's the rub: Cassandra is notoriously difficult to scale on the fly. It can take up to an hour to deploy additional nodes. Secondly, at AWS you can have up to 3 tiers of storage: Standard IOPs, Provisioned IOPs, or EBS volumes. If Netflix deploys standard IOPs, then two factors come into play. First, the bandwidth will vary according to general demand on AWS infrastructure; second, S3 (simple storage server) is the disk space used instead of local volumes. Much to the dismay of DevOps pros, the entire architecture of Cassandra receives a massive performance hit. Instead of having the data efficiently distributed and consisting of multiple copies for multiple clients to read from disks local to server nodes, the data residing in S3 will stream to the compute nodes and will have limited redundancy (which is bad in distributed computing). If Netflix doesn't predict the load for a particular time of day the On-Demand EC2 instances and EMR clusters it configures to scale to the load will tend to lag because Cassandra is notoriously slow. Second, predictable drops in IOPs bandwidth would degrade service at certain points in the day. All of the AWS services come at a cost to Netflix. If someone is experiencing a slowdown in service it’s probably because Netflix is cutting corners to save on cloud infrastructure costs and not ISPs intentionally throttling service...think about it, who has the dynamically changing bandwidth? http://www.zdnet.com/the-biggest-cloud-app-of-all-netflix-7000014298/ZD Net the biggest cloud app of all time.

as far as i know, we just need a PC, with Windows, and a tv with HDMI but, can we use it in tv 768p, or we need a 1080p ? can we use a cheap APU A4 to stream a 1080p movie on netflix ? (that be cool by the way) ^_^ share your thoughts plis, thanks

I recently watched House of Cards and dear lord I don't think I have been that amazed by a story, especially a series, in a while. If you haven't seen it you are depriving yourself, and if you have what do you think?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/26/4659904/kevin-spacey-on-netflix-we-have-learned-the-lesson-that-the-music-industry-didnt well worth watching

Why does online video have such problems? People may assume there are perfectly innocent causes related to their computers or to the mysterious workings of the Internet. Often, they're correct. But cynical types who suspect their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) intentionally degrade streaming video may be right as well. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-youtube-buffers-the-secret-deals-that-make-and-break-online-video/ A friend said "Probably the best explanation I've read of the structure of the internet and the arguments on both sides of Net Neutrality (but it IS Ars Technica, so don't expect COMPLETELY unbiased). It's a bit long, but definitely worth a read." and I have to agree with him, so I thought I would post it here. What do you all think? I did my best to check if this was a dupe but didnt find another post. If it still is please kindly let me know

Link: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304834704579401071892041790 Uhm i don't have a login so i can't see the full article so yeah. I think this shows that ISP overpower/dictate Netflix which isn't right. Update1: new link that you don't need to login WSJ, here is another article link to Gizmodo Update2: AT&T Speaking to Netflix as well (Reuters)

I have a close friend who lives in Portugal and one of our favorite things to do is watch movies together. We usually do this by both getting the movie and synchronizing when we hit play. But I have a netflix account and it would make things so much easier if he could get to netflix and sign in as me. Netflix allows two simultaneous streams at one time so it would make everything a lot easier. We've tried using Hotspot Shield and it worked at first but we eventually ran into problems with it. Granted we where using the free version but after the issues we had there's no reason for me to want to buy the full version. So I was wondering if it was possible to create a personal VPN using a program like himatchi. Is there some way to set it up so he can connect to hamachi like a virtual ethernet card and be able to use my internet threw it?

Good movies/TV shows on Netflix (US)?

I recently bought a O!Play Mini Plus media player from ASUS. Just recently Netflix came out in the Netherlands and I can't seem to use it on my media player. There is no option to open Netflix. I did a bit of research and found out that ASUS has a separate "Netflix" version. The O!Play Mini Plus Netflix. I'd like to get Netflix on my normal Mini Plus. The two devices seem to use the same hardware. So I was wondering, can I install the Netflix firmware on my normal media player? Or is there another way to get Netflix on the normal version? I hope someone can help me before I brick an expensive piece of hardware. Thx guys