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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
By admin | November 4, 2008
I recently signed up for the Netflix 2 week trial. By far the best feature is that there are a lot of movies you can stream and watch immediately. This is especially great for anime since its so episodic. I just started watching Kurau Phantom Memory, and have almost completed the entire series in about [...]
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