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cgsevern

02-09-2009, 04:08 PM

I have used both the Netflix streaming video feature and the Amazon download of rentals. By far, the Amazon experience was far better because I use a wireless connection for my TiVo. I really wish that TiVo and Netflix would allow for a download option for rentals like I can select with Amazon. Since I have the Netflix subscription already, this would save me having to rent via Amazon. Probably this is a feature Netflix would need to incorporate and then get TiVo onboard as a provider. But I thought I would put in my vote here.

johnny99

02-09-2009, 07:13 PM

I would like to download Netflix, too. I have 1.5Mb "high speed" internet and the image quality from Netflix on my TivoHD is so terrible that I refuse to watch it. Regular DVDs look so much better, and I won't even talk about Blu-Ray. If I can't even get regular DVD quality over the internet, then I'm not interested.

59er

02-09-2009, 10:39 PM

I'm voting against this one. I've had mostly great luck with the streaming -- shockingly good quality when it gets to all the bars ("HD"), sometimes beating the quality of recorded HD, which occasionally has pixellation -- and downloads are simply not the Netflix business model.

It's just not what they do, and certainly not in an unlimited viewing model.

ct1

02-09-2009, 11:32 PM

I would be happier with a bigger (maybe disk based?) buffer.

Picture looks great, but it just hangs every 15-20 minutes.

I'd be ok with waiting longer for it to start if it wouldn't hang so often.

bktraveler

02-11-2009, 07:14 PM

New movies maybe? The movies on the instant Netflix are mostly old or not very popular movies. I think they offer maybe 10 movies from 2008 I want to see movies that come out on dvd up are rdy for instant streaming.

MikeMar

02-11-2009, 08:40 PM