Netflix has now launched in the UK and Ireland - [update]

[Jameseh]

Originally Posted by iFrankie

Thanks James, also how would i view movies via windows media center?, there is an application which i sign in on but no movies or shows show up.

Microsoft will presumably update it soon, but they do often neglect WMC like the recent EPG outages.

[hemelvirgin]

hi,

joined netflix on friday have d/loaded app on xbox 360.


tried app today it causes my SH to re-boot !!!!

netflix is ok using ipad & pc BUT why is there a problem via xbox live ?

[hemelvirgin]

hi,

have just reset SH using pin hole.

netflix & youtubs apps working on xbox

[denphone]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/ne...nd-launch.html

Netflix has hailed its "successful" launch in the UK and Ireland this month, but warned that the Sky Go multi-platform service will be its biggest competition in the long term.

"As our membership in the UK and Ireland grows, we'll be able to invest more and more in content. We have a great selection of new films from Lionsgate and others, and will have on our service such highly-anticipated films as Hunger Games and The Hobbit, in addition to catalogue movies from five of the six major studios

Outlining Netflix's competitors, Hastings pointed to Amazon's LoveFilm, which recently topped 2m subscribers, but also acknowledged the threat of BBC iPlayer, which offers catch-up on all the BBC's channels and is funded by the licence fee.

However, Hastings feels that the firm's "primary long-term competition" will come from Sky Go, the multi-platform service launched by satellite pay-TV giant Sky last year

"Just as in the US where our primary long-term competition will likely be TV Everywhere, in the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on-demand. (Sky Atlantic is mostly HBO Originals content, and Sky Movies is one channel with the Pay One movie output from all six major US movie studios)," said Hastings.

"We believe we will compete very effectively against Sky Go, given our advantages of being an unbundled low-priced offering with broad content that is purely on-demand, and personalised."

[richard1960]

Originally Posted by denphone

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/ne...nd-launch.html

As always denphone it will be down to content having looked through Netflix the other day i was not all that impressed maybe thats just me though.

Though the way sky ties content up like HBO can Netflix really compete with that even in the long term i have my doubts but who knows.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by richard1960

As always denphone it will be down to content having looked through Netflix the other day i was not all that impressed maybe thats just me though.

Yes it will be interesting to see what content deals they do in the next year.

[richard1960]

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes it will be interesting to see what content deals they do in the next year.

Sorry denphone i added another line which was,i wonder if Netflix can compete with sky seeing how they tie up exclusive dels with HBO,and the major film studios i have my doubts mate,but hope i am wrong.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by richard1960

Sorry denphone i added another line which was,i wonder if Netflix can compete with sky seeing how they tie up exclusive dels with HBO,and the major film studios i have my doubts mate,but hope i am wrong.

But some of that might change as Netflix could be boosted by a UK Competition Commission investigation into Sky's control over movie rights in the UK, after the regulator said last year that the satellite operator was hindering fair competition.

[richard1960]

Originally Posted by denphone

But some of that might change as Netflix could be boosted by a UK Competition Commission investigation into Sky's control over movie rights in the UK, after the regulator said last year that the satellite operator was hindering fair competition.

It could be if the CC has and uses its teeth i see though they have suspended their full report to allow Netflix time to launch could be iffy or genuine who knows.

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2011/...sider-netflix/

[denphone]

Originally Posted by richard1960

It could be if the CC has and uses its teeth i see though they have suspended their full report to allow Netflix time to launch could be iffy or genuine who knows.

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2011/...sider-netflix/

Yes it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the near future.

[Graham M]

I'm really enjoying my access to Netflix and am really thinking my 6 quid a month would be a worthwhile investment so long as content does not stagnate. Just a case of wait and see really, may even consider dumping my Sky+ HD Sub and getting a Freesat HD+ box.

[Matt D]

If you look, there are ways in which you can unblock access to the US Netflix. Not tried it myself, but apparently the content is far superior. Seasons 1, 2, *and* 3 of Breaking Bad, all of Mad Men, Star Trek, Stargate, BSG, additional seasons of stuff which is incomplete on the UK Netflix, more films...

[downquark1]

Originally Posted by Matt D

If you look, there are ways in which you can unblock access to the US Netflix. Not tried it myself, but apparently the content is far superior. Seasons 1, 2, *and* 3 of Breaking Bad, all of Mad Men, Star Trek, Stargate, BSG, additional seasons of stuff which is incomplete on the UK Netflix, more films...

I have seen a claim that if you use an american DNS server you can get it.

[Matt D]

Yes. As I said - If you look, there are ways in which you can unblock access to the US Netflix

[cimt]

I was on it yesterday, it puts the UK one to shame.