As soon as you boot it up you get a code that you have to input on the website on your PC in order to activate it. This is a fast process. As for the rest... not so fast. In comparison to the 360's offering everything is a lot more sluggish and archaic feeling. If you don't have a Netflix streaming device though, and own a PS3, this is your ticket. Below is a video (sorry for the quality) demonstrating the menus and such. It offers all of the same features as the Xbox 360, just less pretty. The biggest complaint so far has been the lack of HD streaming. I don't know if this is an error on my part, but as you'll see in the video, I try a couple of HD films at the end. They both displayed in an odd 4:3 and shitty resolution. Hopefully there is a fix for this. I tried another movie after the video stops and the same thing happened.
Oh, and don't make fun of my Queue. Just because that shit is on there doesn't mean I am a fan of it. It's also a shared Queue. So fuck you. <3
So I jumped ship off the 360 before I ever got to try this. How does it compare to that version? Aside from the whole putting in of the disk, which I don't mind.
It works well enough for me. I've never seen the 360 version in action, so I've got nothing to compare this too, but I like it. I won't watch full-length films on it that often, but there's a good bit of TV that I can watch. I can tolerate the resolution; I am streaming, after all.
360 version looks the same just about, far as I have seen as a non-netflix subscriber. Only difference is you don't need to pay microsoft $50 a year to have access to your netflix over PSN. Which makes absolutely no sense considering they are stored over netflix servers.
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Supposedly the video is still processing? The quality should improve after that or whatever.
Cocoon? LOL.
So I jumped ship off the 360 before I ever got to try this. How does it compare to that version? Aside from the whole putting in of the disk, which I don't mind.
It works well enough for me. I've never seen the 360 version in action, so I've got nothing to compare this too, but I like it. I won't watch full-length films on it that often, but there's a good bit of TV that I can watch. I can tolerate the resolution; I am streaming, after all.
Stopped when you scrolled past Red Dwarf.
Stopped when I didn't even open the video but saw the comment saying you skipped Red Dwarf without playing it.
360 version looks the same just about, far as I have seen as a non-netflix subscriber. Only difference is you don't need to pay microsoft $50 a year to have access to your netflix over PSN. Which makes absolutely no sense considering they are stored over netflix servers.
I got a movie to play in 720p, but it essentially was a non-HD transfer with no upscaling, just 16:9 formatting. It looked like ass, to be blunt.
I'm not going to say that I hate the PS3's NetFlix streaming service, but I honestly have no clue why it's not at least comparable to the 360's.
RETURN THE DISC
SEE WHAT HAPPENS
I've heard that if you have the right NAT you can stream HD movies up to 1230048P
*Makes fun of your queue because everyone knows it is all of your stuff.*
lmao, Takeshi.