More issues with Netflix

[Chigworthy]

I really use the hell out of Netflix, mainly Watch Instantly. But why is the browsing of their titles so crippled? Is there a page I'm not finding where the titles are ordered by when they were added to Netflix? The new releases pages seemingly generate random lists of movies that have been added in the last 6 months. This makes it difficult when you've gone through most of the old stuff and want to see what was added recently. My point of reference is eMusic, which offers all sorts of ways to browse, from genre-based to editor's picks, and all of the methods of browsing are sortable by criteria like "New this Week" or "New in the past 30 days". Either I'm missing something or Netflix is coded by a sack of douche.

[paulisded]

they have fucked up their new release listings. I used to check every Sunday for the stuff being added on Tuesday.

[Chigworthy]

Well, they've done it again. Their website has been douched-out again. Now it's flashier and more like popular media software, which means more cpu intensive and harder to use. I imagine this probably cost the company millions, so look for a fee increase soon.

[Chimee]

Well, they've done it again. Their website has been douched-out again. Now it's flashier and more like popular media software, which means more cpu intensive and harder to use. I imagine this probably cost the company millions, so look for a fee increase soon.

I hate when they do shit like that. I liked when it would just show me things that I hadn't already rated. At this point, they should know that I don't want them wasting space with Disney shows, but sure enough, the watch instantly is filled with shows I've already watched and popular shit that I have zero interest in watching.

[Doom Penis]

The search feature sucks a dick too.

[Chigworthy]

The Xbox Netflix app just had a relatively large update, yet did nothing to change the interface. I can only imagine it was some modification that makes the product more difficult to use.

[Chigworthy]

I just noticed these new conveniences with the webpage:

In the last version, when you clicked on a movie, it took you to that movie's page. Now when you click on it, if it is on demand, it instantly starts playing it in your browser. Way to save bandwidth you dopes. In order to get to the movie's page, a "splash" menu opens up to the side when you hover over the movie. This splash menu contains a description of the movie. It does not contain the genre or the language of the movie. In order to find this info, you have to play the maze game and get your cursor to the Title of the movie, which is a link to the movie's page. If you stray from the invisible path to the link, the slash menu disappears.

There is no easy way to describe how "nerfed" this new webpage is from the old one, but it really is the bloody bowel evacuation of a hiv-positive leper with dysentery.

[Chigworthy]

Member reviews pane has this message for the last week:

There was a problem retrieving member reviews. Please try again later.

And here is my inner conspiracy theorist:

In the past, I would be looking on Zune for something to watch, find it, then check netflix to see if it was available there. A lot of times, it was. Nowadays, not so much. It used to be rare to find a movie on Netflix that was not available for mail delivery or on demand, unless it was a super-new release or an obscure movie.

[Chigworthy]

My vitriolic campaign continues:

The "Sortable List" feature is now gone as well. Now you can't view movies by rating. Which media company has cut a deal with Netflix execs to drive it into the ground?

[Chigworthy]

Now I'm just looking for flaws:

When browsing through a full page of titles, such as when you click on New Movies, there is no longer a "next page" do-dad at the bottom. Normally, decently designed sites have one at the top of the page and one at the bottom, so that you don't have to scroll all the way to the top to advance the page. Fucking assholes. I swear this is some sort of elaborate corporate suicide and there is some shady company out there that specializes in tiny little things that will piss off customers.

[Chimee]

I'm streaming a movie on my Xbox, fully into the experience of it, and just as the movie builds to the dramatic conclusion with 10 minutes left, it starts popping up saying that it can no longer connect to Netflix, but the movie keeps playing. Then the message starts popping up more and more frequently before it altogether fails. This was the closest I've come to throwing a remote through my television.

[Chigworthy]

I just can't figure out which competing media service has moled into Netflix and planted these seeds of corporate demise. Hulu? Are they going to roll out a more "Netflix-like" service in the next few months?

[jennysmurf]

I got an email today that they're separating the streaming and DVD services into two separate things, so now if I want both, I have to pay $15.00. Or, I can continue the DVD only for $7.99 with no streaming. I wondered when they were going to catch on.

[Dirtbag]

I've never once used the DVD service anyway. No big deal to me.

[Zorro]

I got an email today that they're separating the streaming and DVD services into two separate things, so now if I want both, I have to pay $15.00. Or, I can continue the DVD only for $7.99 with no streaming. I wondered when they were going to catch on.

Just got the same email. The streaming service is so bereft of anything to watch I can't believe they want to charge for it.

[Jujubees2]

Thousands threaten to quit Netflix (http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/12/7069809-thousands-threaten-to-quit-netflix)

[Chimee]

I'm not going to quit, I use the streaming enough and send my DVDs back so quickly that I'm probably getting quite a lot for my money.

I'm really not surprised with them raising rates. Instant streaming is so popular that they had to have realized that they could get away with raising the prices because people love the service so much.

[Doom Penis]

I wanna know why the fuck there isn't an order button available from the streaming service. Its too convenient I guess.

[SnuggleBug]

Anyone have any info about when Netflix will instantly stream this again? This was the only place ever that I could find that I felt like I was in the theaters again. Meaning I could watch Planet Terror, fake previews (minus Machete), Death Proof in one sitting on my tv. No changing disks or anything. Straight through.....anyone anyone? Much appreciated.

[Patient zer0]

I didn't even see grindhouse on there before,machete just popped up a few days ago, I was surprised.

Netflix stinks!
I'm not sure if in the US if you get a different selection of films. I'm in canada and I view off my xbox and the selections are horrid, anything I try to search and its not available.

Sorry to hijack, just needed to vent.

[Chigworthy]

I didn't even see grindhouse on there before,machete just popped up a few days ago, I was surprised.

Netflix stinks!
I'm not sure if in the US if you get a different selection of films. I'm in canada and I view off my xbox and the selections are horrid, anything I try to search and its not available.

Sorry to hijack, just needed to vent.

Try my epic thread More Issues with Netflix (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86074&highlight=netflix) for all your bitching needs.

[Patient zer0]

The xbox app is shit.
The movies that I can view its hard to weed out what's really new.

I wish there was a way to search actors.
Get a wider range of films that way.

I find any movie I try to search its never available. The movies they do have are shite.

I'm not sure if netflix usa and canada are different and stream different movies.

I have my netflix subscription on xbox and I'm sure I can use it online but I'm not sitting at my pc to watch a movie when I have a 55 in my living room.

[Patient zer0]

Try my epic thread More Issues with Netflix (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86074&highlight=netflix) for all your bitching needs.
Thank you sir.
I will indeed bitch

[Chimee]

I just use the website to find and organize my Instant Queue, that way I'm not fighting with shit when I want to watch something on Xbox. Especially since most of the things that they recommend I watch are already in my Queue.

[sailor]

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l25/madrigalq/merge.jpg

[Chigworthy]

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l25/madrigalq/merge.jpg

Poor Snugglebug. Now his completely unrelated question will never be answered.

[SnuggleBug]

Poor Snugglebug. Now his completely unrelated question will never be answered.

Took me 2 months, but I found it......

[furie]

I’m really regretting this Qwikster tattoo.

[PapaBear]

My Netflix has consistently been $7.99 per month. This month, my account was charged $8.39. I'm assuming someone is tacking on 5%, but I don't know who. My state's sales tax is 5%, but only if the online company has a physical presence here. Has anyone else noticed this? Forty cents isn't a big deal, but it would be nice to know when the price is going to change before it actually happens.

[underdog]

My Netflix has consistently been $7.99 per month. This month, my account was charged $8.39. I'm assuming someone is tacking on 5%, but I don't know who. My state's sales tax is 5%, but only if the online company has a physical presence here. Has anyone else noticed this? Forty cents isn't a big deal, but it would be nice to know when the price is going to change before it actually happens.

There was a big thing recently about states being able to charge sales tax, even if the company doesn't have a physical presence. Not sure if it went through, but I remember it had Ebert all up in arms.

[PapaBear]

There was a big thing recently about states being able to charge sales tax, even if the company doesn't have a physical presence. Not sure if it went through, but I remember it had Ebert all up in arms.
That would make sense. 39.95 to be exact.

[Chigworthy]

So the latest part of the Netflix plan for self-destruction is to limit search functions even further:

A) They merged the "Newly Arrived TV" and "Newly Arrived Movies" into "Newly Arrived", which should probably drive away a few more customers.

B) You can no longer search for new arrivals of a particular genre. They completely removed the genre links from the new arrivals page. You can see lists of new arrivals in just these genres: TV Shows, Children & Family, Comedies, Dramas, Thrillers, Action, Documentaries, Foreign. This excludes Anime, Classics, Faith & Spirituality, Gay & Lesbian, HD, Horror, Independent, Music, Musicals, Romance, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Special Interest, and Sports & Fitness. So they've removes 13 out of 21 genres from the new arrivals function.

This company blows chimp.

[sailor]

Love Netflix. Glad they got rid of those extra genres.

[CountryBob]

WHY the fuck does my Netflix streaming account keep juggling back and forth from HD to non HD like 50 fucking times during a movie?

I have a $200 router that I recently bought and it has a wire (no wireless).

Can this be a Netflix problem? anyone else having this problem?

[sailor]

WHY the fuck does my Netflix streaming account keep juggling back and forth from HD to non HD like 50 fucking times during a movie?

I have a $200 router that I recently bought and it has a wire (no wireless).

Can this be a Netflix problem? anyone else having this problem?

Reboot everything?

[realmenhatelife]

Mine has been doing this too. Shitty router, wireless. So I'll bet it is a netflix thing or at the very least external to your own hardware.

[sailor]

Mine has been doing this too. Shitty router, wireless. So I'll bet it is a netflix thing or at the very least external to your own hardware.

Maybe it's lack of net neutrality?

[CountryBob]

no shit I just bought a new router that's the fucking bomb - so Im not looking there.
last night it didn't do it as often but it still was doing it.

I blame Obama

[Kevin]

no shit I just bought a new router that's the fucking bomb - so Im not looking there.
last night it didn't do it as often but it still was doing it.

I blame Obama


Are you in the upper east side? Because according to them and the NY Post DeBlasio hates them. I mean the Bronx always gets plowed when it snows. Brooklyn is great too.

[realmenhatelife]

Is Cbob on FIOS? Comcast just made a deal with Netflix in which Netflix subsidizes broadband costs and Comcast allows faster data/better streaming.

FIOS throttles Netflix. Even if you dont have FIOS your ISP might be throttling it.

I want to go back to comcast just because the content is better but it's so much easier just to wait until you're moving.

[CountryBob]

Im on my local internet provider down here in by God Tn.
No Comcast or Fios - I think it is just happening when watching Breaking Bad. Maybe when a shitload of people are streaming the same thing at the same time makes it fuck up.
It doesn't do it when I watch other movies on Netflix.