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Thanks for that MM.

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That is the only thing I don't like about these new small devices; they only have a wifi connection and I only use wired Ethernet connections. I do realise that most people do use Wifi though.

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Netflix UK Picks Up El Rey’s ‘From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series’, Sets March 12th Premiere

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2014/03/netf...12th-premiere/

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Will this work with Amazon Prime(love film).

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Not at the moment , Roku in the UK has never had a Lovefilm app however the US Roku has Amazon Instant so I'd be amazed if it didn't turn up on Roku over here but if that's your reason for purchasing I'd hang fire until its officially announced.

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Coming soon Netflix! Dusk till dawn TV series

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/new...n-netflix.html

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I just came across this post on another forum. Maybe it does automatically switch?


http://www.avsforum.com/t/1304206/be...#post_24448868

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Nah, it doesn't. Auto only works for local files and the only way to do it with Netflix is manually.

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Netflix UK Inks Fox Deal For Exclusive Streaming Rights To ‘Homeland’ & ‘American Horror Story’

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2014/03/netf...-horror-story/

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Excellent news that its got Homeland as that's a brilliant series.

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Great news, loved them both!!

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How is that brilliant news Den?? Homeland was on Ch4, so i for one would like it to stay on a channel that i don't need to pay for.

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All they've done is got the streaming rights to the show. Channel 4 still have the broadcast rights to it.

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Ok thx for that, i thought it was going to be an exclusive on Netflix, phew....:D

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Watching Netflix on Tivo with the new update. A lot smoother and seems faster. One thing I have noticed is that Super HD is no longer listed, but when info button is pressed it shows that it is still using 1080p

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Is there any benefit to using Netflix on the Tivo to using it on the Xbox One, i am guessing an Xbox One would have a super fast interface compared to the Virgin box?

Is it cheaper getting Netflix through Virgin?

Netflix is the same price unless you get an offer like 6 months free.
Netflix is 1080p HD on Tivo, not sure about Xbox version, but on the Wii the picture isn't in HD but still good.

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It seems VM TiVo now has the new Netflix UI http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...6#post71734986

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And very good it looks, too.

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I much prefer the new UI over the old one , I use it on my PS4 and Roku 3.

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The press release says there is now support for profiles across all devices. Can anyone confirm if this applies to the Virgin TiVo?

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Google’s Chromecast streaming stick set to go on sale in the UK this week.

http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...e-uk-this-week

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It looks prettier and clearer but im finding it a bit slower to load up?? maybe it was just because it was loading up for the first time??

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Must admit Vince I saw a little bit of lag and background images slower to load on the TIVO , its fine on my PS4 and Roku 3 however.

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Totally agree, took ages to load up last night, not that impressed!

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I've not had HD since the update. Just SD 480. If they don't improve it I'll be digging out the Apple TV again.

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Amazon launching their own Android-based streaming box apparently: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/17/55...ing-next-month.

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I wish they would make an Amazon Instant Android streaming APP for my tablet.

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quick question, every time i log on to netflix and start to watch a film it always comes on half way through the film ! would appreciate it if anyone could give me clue why it keeps doing this ? cheers

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Is it a film that you've partly watched before? They pick up where they left off.

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no mate it was a film we havnt seen !

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There's a bug I noted on here before where sometimes Netflix starts streaming, then buffers almost immediately and stops at the 25% mark, then when you stop the movie if you choose to resume it picks up in the middle somewhere depending how long you left it buffering. Similar to that? It's still present on the new version.

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cheers mate for clearing that up for me

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Seems some of the larger ISP's in the USA are looking to get fees off Netflix , Netflix have already agreed a deal with Comcast. Could this repeat itself over here ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26682298

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If that happens then the monthly fee that many people pay will rise and thus a good reasonable value service will suddenly not be value at all.

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You sound very gloomy these days, Den. You were such an optimist until recently...;)

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l will always be optimistic OB but as one develops more grey hairs by the day one also becomes more of a realist as well.:)

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It seems another big ISP in the US has had there say now , AT&T reject Reed Hastings comments that the ISP's should foot the bill.

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Does Youtube pay money to ISP's?

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Related to this point, is it my imagination or has the option to play a film from the start disappeared?! I'm sure it used to be right under the "Resume playing". I had to rewind a film to get it back to the start this morning. It was painfully slow and reminded me of the good old VHS days!

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I have read that Netflix sometimes offer free programmes, how does this work if it is a subscription service?:confused:

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First I've heard of it. Unless you mean the free one month trial?

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It should be to the right of "Resume playing". Is it not?

ps. Welcome to the forum!

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Things could be on the up for YouView , an interesting article on things going forward.

http://www.seenit.co.uk/youviews-fiv...-the-platform/

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I see they're massive fans of the Guardian :rolleyes:

Personally I think it's good that someone has been challenging the way 'sales' of Youview boxes has been dominated by BT and Talk Talk. Maybe these questions and the rumoured enhanced Freeview service has made Youview do something about it?

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To be fair YouView can only add other content with the addition of support for unicast which they've been open about and discussed many times on their forum.

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I know you are quite knowledgeable on Youview, so do you know if there was a reason why Unicast wasn't there from the Get-Go?

Youview was so long in development, I would have thought they would have got it right from release.

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Honestly not sure , the last I read on unicast was the following. I'm sure someone more technical than myself understands it.:D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/...r_live_restart

Certainly appears YouView will see more content options soon.

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Been told that the now partly ITV owned Cirkus may be coming to VM if talks prove fruitful to both parties.

It shows Nordic and classic British programming.

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Been getting UI-113 On Netflix, is this a problem with VM or Netflix. I can watch it on Laptop just not through tivo.

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Had the same problem last night. You will need to sign out of Netflix and then sign back in. It took me a few attempts for TIVO to connect to sign me out, but I got there in the end. Been working fine all day today.

Hope it helps.

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Same happened to me yesterday, just signed out and back in and all was sorted, also oddly enough suggestions have been fixed at same time.

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I tend to use my Chromecast for Netflix these days - it seems like such a faff going through Tivo (and takes forever). It did me okay for a while, but Chromecast is the way forward now ;)

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Thanks took your advice and just kept signing out then back in, and it eventually worked. :)

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I just have a long hdmi lead running from my pc to my tv that works great :D but thinking of getting either a WD live tv or chromecast.

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I had this last night and struggled with it for 30 mins. I logged out then logged back in and it came back

:)

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I just find it so unresponsive on TiVo, takes a good few seconds to acknowledge commands from the remote control. Is that any better on other devices?

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I've used Netflix via the following devices Roku 2 XS , Roku 3 and PS4 , the Roku 3 and PS4 are excellent however the Roku 2 XS still has the old Netflix UI and can be a little sluggish and slow to load images.

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I think I've noticed a slow down since the new ui appeared, particularly starting shows. I now get audio a full second before any picture. The new ui is better to look at but didn't actually add anything in terms of ease of use.

For those unaware new series From Dusk till Dawn is available on Netflix UK, 3 episodes so far being added to each week.

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I had the same issue. Did a reboot at the wall and straight in.

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I have a WDTV Live and that takes ages too.

Chromecast is as quick as loading the Netflix app on your phone, waiting about five seconds, hitting the cast button and pressing play on your chosen programme (particularly quick if you are piling through a whole season like I am at present with Sons of Anarchy, as the Netflix app, on whatever platform, will line up the next episode for you).

Using Tivo is just too sluggish, and there's no guarantee once you've faffed about that you won't get a connection error.

As I say, it's a great feature on Tivo, but I've outgrown it now.

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Xbox co-funds first UK TV drama

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...-4-real-humans

Yahoo planning to make original web TV shows to rival Netflix, Amazon

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/new...ix-amazon.html

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For those who may be interested in WWE Network but were a bit unsure on how it'll cope with live events, i watched Wrestlemania30 on it last night and there were no issues at all, it looks like they have ironed out the problems from it's launch.

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The number of Netflix subscribers has grown to 14% of the UK’s online population - bolstered by the launch of the service on Virgin Media’s Tivo platform, according to a survey from Decipher Media.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/m...070798.article

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We had it for a couple of months just to see House of Cards, but imo its just a load of old stuff, not worth it unless it can get more up to date quality like House of Cards.

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I am wondering if some entrepreneurial company (maybe Virgin) will do a deal to give you one sub for a number of streaming services at a discounted rate compared to buying the service from individual providers.

The number of providers jumping into this area is about to get sill with all of them want x number of £ for access.

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I think that is a very good idea. A bouquet of streaming services package (if it is good enough) might suit me better than subscribing to Sky Movies!

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:tu:

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+1.

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All i'm saying is watch this space you're on the right track ;)

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Intriguing!

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I would severely doubt the likes of Netflix and Amazon would discount their products further , I'd imagine the profits aren't huge on a product that costs around £6.

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That may well be, MM, but of course VM may decide to use this as a loss leader as Sky do for their Sky Atlantic channel.

The alternative (and most likely scenario) is that VM simply bundle up the charges from three or four operators and offer it as a package. They would make their profit from wholesale deals with each content provider.

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Cheers Sherlock!

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Any guesses as to which content providers VM might go for to provide us with more streaming services?

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I'd guess Amazon Prime.

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I'd have been more convinced had this happened at the time Netflix was added.

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Get it right MB is sherlock, i'm Watson :D

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Amazon prime , Wuaki, maybe a uk version of Hulu? as Hulu are looking to expand outside the USA.


It does make you wonder though how much content really does cost and how much profit VM, Sky etc actually make. I was able to grab a 12 month Hulu+ subscription for £20 which has a lot of content that's on Sky, and something like Bein Sport works out at about £13p/m compared to how much Skysports cost, if i were to add Skysports on my VM package it would cost me £32 a month (i'm on tvm) which i personally think is ridicolous, no idea who sets these prices but they need their head examined lol as there are better and vheaper alternatives out there if you look.
This is just my opinion though.

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Both are hugely overpriced. SKY have offered 50% off for a year deals back and fourth whilst Virgin have been offering 50% off on their Premier and VIP Collections for 12 months during the whole of April. They must be making some kind of profit off this, or they wouldn't run the deals, which makes you think they are really milking customers who pay full price. I've had SKY for 1/2 price now for 14 months, with another 10 months 1/2 price to run. I will never pay full price to either company ever again.

The pay TV market needs a massive shake up.

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Agree mate the best thing i did was dropping my Sky and VM tv subscription worked everything out hulu plus £20 for the year, wwe network £6.25p/m , netflix £5.99p/m and bein sport £11.25p/m , vm broadband n phone n tvm £30p/m, smart dns service £2.50p/m = £51.50p/m approx. That's on average a £32p/m saving over what i was paying for Sky n vm.

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Pretty much the route we're going down at the moment too. Dropped the TV from VM a month ago and just have 150mb+phone from them now for £35 all in. We plugged the ariel back into the TV for freeview and have Netflix (with unblock-us) and Amazon Prime just now, we really don't feel like we're missing out on anything other than perhaps GoT and might pick up a cheap NowTV box for that.

Might drop Prime once our sub runs out though as it's not that great atm.

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You should have been able to keep a Tivo on M TV for the same price as you are paying now (they actually gave me a cheaper price to keep Tivo on M TV). That gives you a good Freeview PVR at no extra cost.

I'm using Netflix with Unblock-us, the free version of Hulu, HBO Nordic and, because of the special price offer at launch, Amazon Prime. Like you, I will most likely drop Prime when it comes up for renewal.

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I kind of agree , I'm finding were only watching the originals after that its all just series that were on TV many moons back , if I'm honest I wasn't that impressed with other territories Netflix either , looks like my plan to go purely down the streaming route will have to wait. There's speculation on DS forum about price increases I certainly wouldn't pay anymore.

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I gave Netflix a go for 2 months, the found that I didn't use it enough to warrant even the low price it is now. Having 150mb rendered it pointless for me. So cancelled it.

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Indeed a price rise is as inevitable as David Moyes being sacked.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27106460

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Netflix UK wouldn't warrant a price rise until the content gets closer to that of the US version.

We are finding Netflix worth the money compared to what we were shelling out for Sky Movies and being able to watch a different film every day of the week compared to the daily repeats on Sky Movies

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A price rise would be a bad move for Netflix i think. I think they'll split it i think someone on Dspy mentioned they had a screen pop up offering the 3 different packages the cheapest being SD only at £4.75p/m.
I think Netflix is fine as it is a price rise would make me re-consider my subscription to it even though i use a smart DNS. A prime example is i got a years hulu+ for £20 which has most tv shows on anyway, the only fault with hulu is blooming adverts.

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How you finding the wwe network mate?? i was watching netflix usa on firefox with the hola unblocker free add on and it worked a treat. apparently its not as good with the wwe network so i'd need to get a smart DNS and pay for that. I may do soon enough since it seems we're not going to get the network anytime soon!

In terms of netflix i may cancel it soon enough. starting to run out of things to watch really i'm quite fussy when it comes to watching things!

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WWE network is working flawlessly mate, during the live WM30 stream there wasn't a single issue it ran perfectly in HD.
Firefox seems to not like it though however it runs perfectly on chrome, safari, opera and my ps3 i think Firefox has issues with the shockwave player though.
There is loads of on demand stuff too including every WWF,WWE,ECW,WCW ppv aswell as exclusive shows such as legends house. Imo it's well worth the £6.43p/m.
As for smart dns unblock-us would be my recomendation it only costs about £2.20p/m and unlocks a whole lot of other goodies such as HULU, Bein sports , cw,fox etc, you can get a hulu+ subscription for the year for about £20 on ebay.
Also be careful with Hola unblocker apparantly it drops adware on your pc, this is a claim some people are making so i do not know if it's true or not.

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Wwe network is quality bud,I go halves with my bro so it's costing me £3.10 per month pq is amazing and have also got hulu plus aswell only complaint I have with hulu is sound is 2.0 but no biggy pq is 720hd.i have unblock us great price and great 24hr support ;)

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Have not checked, so please dont shoot me down in flames, but is Game of Thrones available elsewhere in the world on Netflix ?

Am currently paying for the entertainment package on NowTV just so the missus can watch it, but if I can unblock with hula, it'll save me some money !

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Sadly not hbo don't allow there content on hulu,just watched a new show called Salem on Hulu plus.impressed with 1st ep;)

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shame, but thanks Howard ...

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No probs,worth having a look at hulu plus there is a free trial,u can favourite your program's and get it to queue up new episodes and even texts u when available

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You can however subscribe to hbo nordic which has most of the hbo shows on it including game of thrones, girls etc also has other network shows on too such as the walking dead, it does cost about £8.70p/m though and you would need a smart dns service.
As howard said give HULU a go you'll be impressed i think, as for game of thrones there are otherways of watching it if you look around ;)

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I don't get texts lol. Also i wasn't allowed the free trial due to none us paypal account, but as i mentioned earlier in the thread i got a 12 month subscription anyway for £20 which is excellent value imo as you'd pay that just for 1 month of Sky tv.

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Have to admit I find there's far too many sacrifices and hoops to jump through to use all these services with smart DNS , I don't want to watch TV on the computer or have to wire the computer to the TV.

Most of the pay services require a US address and if you want to use the official apps you need a US device , I can see the appeal of Netflix different regions for some though.

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I can understand where you're coming from mate, i use hulu+ and Netflix on my ps3 logged into my uk account. I did need to log into my us account to get the app.Also i had to set the smart dns up on my ps3 too which is easy enough to do. As for us addresses most just require the zipcode i just use 90210 lol. Although wwe network did require a us address which i used the New York central library as the address.
I do have my pc connected to my tv but that's because atm Bein sports app isn't very good plus i use my pc for some gaming too and only have a little 17inch monitor for my pc lol.

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I've seen a story on Fox News today that Netflix are increasing their prices in USA by approx $1 - $2 a month, about £1 - £1.50 if similar follows in UK.

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Agree with all of that 100%.......:tu:

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If that happens then they know what they can do.