Tag Archives: instant view

Netflix "Instant View" Silverlight player

By admin | January 8, 2009

Well, Netflix says the silverlight player is made for them by Microsoft (must be why its not working yet).  Recently I was at a hotel and wanted to watch some movies in my room.  Well, the Hotel only had a 1 Mb connection up/down, so obviously, the player wouldn’t work….  I guess my home 7 [...]

Posted in software | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

Netflix "Instant View" streaming SILVERLIGHT player

By admin | January 6, 2009

Netflix’s new player based on Microsoft’s Silverlight seems to have helped my earlier complaints about slowness.  I am much happier with the new silverlight player.  I have been able to watch full length movies (some still have compression artifacts), however, most of the annoying rebuffering delays are gone since the upgrade (now about 2 months).  [...]

Posted in software | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

Netflix "Instant View" – NOT for full length movies

By admin | November 5, 2008

While the Instant view steaming is great for anime (short episodes), it doesn’t work too well for full length movies. I tried watching two, and both times, after about 10 min, I get the following:   Here is my bandwidth speedtest right after the error: So, its not very likely the bottleneck is on my [...]

Posted in Anime, software | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment