Comments on: Netflix Streaming Video to PlayStation 3

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:44:59 +0000

They just released every episode of Lost on Hulu.com in anticipation of the final season premier this Tuesday!

By: barney

barney — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:45:23 +0000

under which catagory did you find LOST? i never did find it.

By: CK

CK — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:08:35 +0000

I stream Netflix through my Tivo, it’s pretty sweet, they need to add more though.

By: Julio

Julio — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:53:27 +0000

The wife said I can get one for xmas if I’m a good boy until then.

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:58:20 +0000

i’m tyring to hold out one mroe price drop. I have made it this far….can i do it? and if not a price drop then some sort of bundle that appeals to me…..when god of war 3 comes out i will cave anyway so i guess it is just a matter of time

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:53:32 +0000

this. i want one…but i must ocntinue to resist the urge to drop 300 dollars followed by 60 every month or two for games. but. it. is. so. hard.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:39:44 +0000

This on top of resent price drops on the PS3. Time for a new toy.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:15:56 +0000

I got my disk last Thursday and it is great. I’ve got a substantial Instant Queue built up and can easily access it from my PS3.

The only complaint I have is so much of Netflix’s catalog is unavailable on Instant Play. I can see season 6 or 7 of The Shield, but where’s season 1. I can see season 4 of Lost but what about 5. There is still a lot of movies and television shows available but it’d be nice to have all of a series instead of being limited to a season here, a season there.

By: anthonyvogl

anthonyvogl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:49:40 +0000

This sounds like a good alternative to going cable-less.

By: PK

PK — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:27:29 +0000

I just subscribed to Netflix solely for the streaming on PS3. I also own an XBox360 but don’t purchase Live Gold, so that was a bust for me. We currently are maintaining our Blockbuster Online account as well because we can’t get this plan anymore (3 at a time with unlimited exchanges for only $20). If we like the service, we might just let BBOnline go.

By: daemondust

daemondust — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:07:03 +0000

I assume you’re using component video. There, the colors are close enough that you aren’t going to notice a difference much more than you would between two monitors fed off the same source.

DVI to HDMI would yield a better picture on a good, or large, HDTV simply because the signal stays digital the whole way instead of having to be converted to analog and back again.

By: saladdin

saladdin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:22:48 +0000

My VGA picture from my computer to my tv looks just as good as my “normal” tv picture. My gf could not tell the difference. Neither can I.

saladdin

By: daemondust

daemondust — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:15:57 +0000

VGA isn’t the answer here. VGA to composite (and component) adapters do exist, but the color space is different, so it won’t look all that good. If you have a TV with an HDMI port and a computer with DVI, you’re golden. HDMI is a reformat of DVI that includes sound and optionally encryption. So, a simple adapter will convert you between the two, modulo sound. My TV has one of the HDMI ports linked to analog sound input specifically for this purpose.

There’re also some adapters that will take a S/PDIF audio stream and transplant it into an HDMI stream so you only need to route one cable between the PC and TV, but those are somewhat expensive, so aren’t a good solution.

By: daemondust

daemondust — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:26:46 +0000

While I do love being able to stream to more than the ’360, it does seem a little less polished on the PS3 than the ’360. Even ignoring the disc requirement (until they get it worked into the base firmware), the UI is much less polished. The video chooser just doesn’t look as good. The streams, however, are the same.

So, I won’t be renewing my XBOX Live now that I can stream to my PS3, but I’m hoping it gets more polished when it’s worked into the firmware.

By: daemondust

daemondust — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:23:01 +0000

Supposedly streaming to the Wii is next. The Wii and XBOX 360 are $200 each. The PS3 $300. So, it would take two years of XBOX Live fees to recover the additional cost of a PS3. However, a PS3 is also a great Blu-ray player.

If you have an old(er) computer or a laptop with DVI output, there are cheap adapters to convert that to (soundless) HDMI for your TV, so you could use that. If you don’t have one, however, a PS3 isn’t very expensive compared to a computer with enough power to keep up with the stream, especially if you plan to watch Blu-ray too.