Anyone using either of these?
I see they are both available on games consoles & have a free month trial.
I'm quite enjoying Netflix, but I haven't tried Lovefilm yet.
Netflix / Lovefilm
I have had Netflix for about 4 months and not paid once because I'm a cheap bastard and realised I can register different credit cards to keep reusing the free trail. Netflix has a nice interface, although I wish it had more category options.
Tip: Your Netflix account is valid worlwide, so if you ever got bored of the UK library, you can change your proxy settings to receive the US library, which has a much bigger selection.
Lovefilm registers your address so it's harder to regain more free trials. Their interface is nowhere near as SMOOTH as Netflix. Which massively put me off using it half the time. It has an OK selection, I mainly watched Only Fools & Horses when I had nothing else to watch on real TV.
Netflix has a better picture, whilst Lovefilm has a poorer picture and kept buffering too!
I changed from Lovefilm to Netflix, it's way more convenient though with Netflix I find the choice is a bit boring but will stick with it for now.
Quote: Lee @ December 19 2012, 10:43 PM GMTTip: Your Netflix account is valid worlwide, so if you ever got bored of the UK library, you can change your proxy settings to receive the US library, which has a much bigger selection.
Must try that!
You have to pay to get through a decent US proxy server though. Although they're not much. Some as cheap as £3 a month.
The UK version of Netflix is pony. Lovefilm is no better.
Pony? new word of the day for me.
No idea why anyone would use either.
There's enough stuff on YouTube etc not to need them.
But then I suppose I only really watch Walker Texas Ranger.
and Star Trek occaisonally.
Quote: Ben @ December 19 2012, 11:01 PM GMTYou have to pay to get through a decent US proxy server though. Although they're not much. Some as cheap as £3 a month.
The UK version of Netflix is pony. Lovefilm is no better.
You don't, if you enter the proxy settings into your Wii/PS3 it works without subscription.
All that fuss for so little of anything?
But then even the basic version of Virgin and Sky provides 100s of hours of watch what you want,
I may take Leevils advice and watch a Futurama I haven't seen before & one & a half epsiodes of Louis CK's sitcom so far.
But I don't usually take Leevils advice, or Bens.
Oh and Season 8 of the US office shortly maybe, if only.
Quote: sootyj @ December 19 2012, 11:20 PM GMTAll that fuss for so little of anything?
But then even the basic version of Virgin and Sky provides 100s of hours of watch what you want,
£21 p/m with a min 12 month subscription?!
or
£5 for hundreds of classic films and TV series at the click of a button.
I like it because I don't like having a DVD collection.
We were all better off when there were only 4 channels.
Quote: chipolata @ December 19 2012, 11:31 PM GMTWe were all better off when there were only 4 channels.
Spot on.
Quote: Lee @ December 19 2012, 11:30 PM GMT£21 p/m with a min 12 month subscription?!
or
£5 for hundreds of classic films and TV series at the click of a button.
I like it because I don't like having a DVD collection.
If you use it for TV alone, I get my bundled with broadband, mobile and land line
and literally never found anything on netflix I want to watch it.
Besides so much poor, old telly for a low price will only encourage worklessness and drug abuse,
Quote: chipolata @ December 19 2012, 11:31 PM GMTWe were all better off when there were only 4 channels.
Poor old Nils only gets the Bristol channel
I much prefer classic movies, especially ones I've never got around to watching before as well.
