Netflix on iPad/iPhone...

[Graves]

I think I'm a little late to the party here (not that most of you would actually care haha) but I just discovered that you can watch Netflix 'watch instant' movies on these devices. I knew in the past you can find more titles on their website for watch instant than what you'd find on your xbox dashboard but you could still watch those films on your xbox if you added them to your queue on your CPU so I went to browse with my wife's iPad and instead of adding a movie I was after, the damn thing started playing it!! I checked my phone and yep...plays them too. The overall quality is great too - other than buffer speed I didn't notice a difference w/ or w/o wifi.

Now I'm sure this isn't that big of a deal to most of you but I'm stoked that I can now catch up on a few shows during my hour long (mandatory-ugh) lunch break.

[kwando]

I am still on the Netflix trial and although my wife loves it I am not too impressed. There are a lot of titles but allot cannot be watched instantly. It is cool to be able to watch it on the go but I have sling already that basically the same thing

[Graves]

Yeah, that's about the only gripe I have with them - their watch instant selection. They were horrible when it first came around but I have yet to run across something I wanted to watch that they didn't have and it usually ends up in my mail box within a day or so. There are even times when I'll have a movie the same day it was realeased; hasn't happened for a while now.

[Elhuero]

thew selection improves when you start paying.

[sbouslog]

If you have HBO you can get the "HBO GO" app and watch all the best premium tv shows when you want to as well. I also prefer to use my iPad as the tv remote using the xfinity app.

[opie011]

Yea I watch it on my iPhone all the time. Didn't know you could watch stuff on 3G, always thought it had to be on wifi

[kwando]

thew selection improves when you start paying.

That's stupid! I'm going to cancel my subscription solely because the selection sucks. If they opened it up during the trial month I'm sure they will have a lot more people keeping their subscription.

[Irving]

It's not that they hold back Kwando, it's just that as you watch things, they get a better idea of what to suggest to you as far as categories go. Watch a few movies and you'll see what we meean.

[Elhuero]

That's stupid! I'm going to cancel my subscription solely because the selection sucks. If they opened it up during the trial month I'm sure they will have a lot more people keeping their subscription.

and your mileage may vary. I was getting netflix thru xbox live, and found the selection improved when my moth free trial was over and I bought the xbox live subscription.

I don't know how that would have been different had I gone thru something with free net access like wii or ps3.

I like netflix. maybe someday I'll have watched all the stuff they have I want to see, then I"ll cancel.