Nitrousbird Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 netflix.com/ps3 One less reason to own an Xbox 360 now. PS3 could always stream Netflix if you had the PlayOn media server, but it was a PITA. Now, Netflix supports it directly. I've watched a couple movies so far with it, and it works flawlessly. Picture quality is pretty decent - Full Metal Jacket and Shawshank Redemption are almost DVD quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy chan Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primera Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Can you pick the movies right from the menu on the PS3 or do you have to start an Instant Queue from the website? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted November 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 There are hundreds of movies you can pick from the menu + you have access to your instant que. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 You could rent or buy movies from the playstation store for a long time now, in HD. Why is this better? Cheaper? Oh, I see, way cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Is it true you have to have the "Netflix" disc in while you're streaming ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morabu Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 yes, you do have to have the disc in but, to counter that the fucking PSN gets access to netflix without have to pay for Gold Service, kinda lame MS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brrcats Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Can you pick the movies right from the menu on the PS3 or do you have to start an Instant Queue from the website? yeah, you still have to do this unfortunately, but if you update your regular netflix que regularly its not much of a hassle to put stuff in your instant que. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 yes, you do have to have the disc in Meh, I already pay for Gold, so I suppose I'll leave the Netflix streaming to the 360, and local media streaming to the PS3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyM3rC Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Wait, you have to have a netflix disc in there? What is the purpose of that? You can't just sign in and watch like on the computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Wait, you have to have a netflix disc in there? What is the purpose of that? You can't just sign in and watch like on the computer? I'm sure its a way of verifying your account. They dont want people sharing usernames/passwords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted November 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Yes, you have to have the disc in there. But I'm going to see if I can rip it to the PS3 hard drive and do it that way. I'll take a look at it some time this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted November 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 So I've messed with it a little more this morning: - Though the disc looks/feels like a DVD, it can only be read by a Blu-ray drive. - Disc is in a standard Blu-ray movie format; mt2s, all standard format folders - Easily ripped to my PC hard drive with AnyDVD HD and my Blu-ray burner. - 174mb total. So sure, I can copy the stupid disc they sent me for free, but that doesn't do much for me. I can mount it as an ISO. PS3 Media Server will read ISO's, but you can only play the m2ts files, individually, with no menu support. Of course, the menu support is what you really need. You could copy the files to the PS3 hard drive, but the same result. I'm now stuck at the point where I might be SOL, other than using the disc, unless I can find a media server that can play ISO's with menus (or any other container format with menus). From what I read, the reason you have to use a disc is because of Microsoft's XBox deal with Netflix; it is good until late 2010, at which time there will be a PS3 firmware update and will no longer need the disc. The disc is a way to get around the Microsoft deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyM3rC Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 That's pretty interesting. MS needs to just f-- off already and stop trying its hardest to screw us PS3 users. Either come out with a better system or die. Quite trying to keep your POS on level ground through underhanded tactics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 That's pretty interesting. MS needs to just f-- off already and stop trying its hardest to screw us PS3 users. Either come out with a better system or die. Quite trying to keep your POS on level ground through underhanded tactics. All with their hands in gaming do this. Sony (and vice versa) has had plenty of exclusive deals that "screwed over" players on other systems, whether it was content specific, game specific, etcetera. Though like Joe said, hopefully once the exclusivity deal expires you'll be able to just install an app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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