One of the great things about Netflix (we’re subscribers, love it) is its ability to have it recommend shows and movies based on what you rated. We primarily watch a ton of TV shows from Netflix as we just find them more entertaining many times (and it’s easier to watch in shorter chunks of time). I was talking to Owen at Mug Revolution the other day about Netflix stuff, and made me wonder what Netflix is introducing to everybody else. So here are a few that Netflix said we’d like and we certainly have.
- Spooks: Holy crap this is a brilliantly written show that needs to hurry up and get its tenth season up and going. If you want great spy action, suspense, etc.., this is a great show for you. Just don’t get too attached to any character in the show, as nobody’s safe from getting killed/removed is some awful way. Netflix doesn’t have all the seasons — you’ll have to find other ways to get those.
- Hustle: We just started watching this one and have enjoyed it so far.
- Foyle’s War is one of the greatest detective dramas I’ve ever seen. Great show, and glad they put out a seventh series (just finished watching it last night).
- Chuck: Never watched this show on TV as it came on during a time where we were watching something else (usually House), but I’m really enjoying this show.
- Hamish Macbeth was an entertaining show, though the last season got a bit weird.
- Pushing Daises: That was obviously suggested to us because we five-starred Wonderfalls and we pretty much like most of what Bryan Fuller has done.
- The Lost Room could have easily been a much longer mini-series, but it was still quite interesting.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. So what gems did you not know about had it not been for Netflix?
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My wife and I recently bought a Sony Blu-Ray player with the capacity to capture streaming video, and we’ve been using it to watch Netflix flicks quite a lot. But distressingly often the video stream is interrupted and we have to wait while it rebuffers, or whatever the hell it’s doing. We have an 8 mbps BendBroadband connection — would upgrading to 10 mbps solve this problem, or would it be a waste of money?
Sorry to pose such a naive question, but we’re kinda new to this streaming business. Thanks!
8mbs should be plenty for netflix. There are folks out there that have told me that they believe that BBB is throttling down Netflix connections as they say when they switched to BendTel DSL (which has slower speeds) during the whole bandwidth cap debate, they had no problems with Netflix while they did with BBB. Honestly, I don’t know. At least it tries to rebuffer — the Silverlight player just decides to crash and doesn’t ever seem to try to rebuffer (and it only buffers a megabyte anyway, which is silly).
Thanks for the info, Jake.
Jake and Bruce,
I noticed the above thread regarding BendBroadband and wanted to set the record straight. BendBroadband doesn’t do any “throttling” of connections – whether related to Netflix or any other internet resource. Recently we did experience an issue with one of our peering partners that had a random impact on some connections, and this is likely what Bruce experienced. This has been addressed with the vendor and we are now peering with akami as well.
I want to really encourage you guys to contact us directly if you have any questions or concerns. Write to me or write to feedback via our website support. We appreciate the opportunity to respond and prefer that people have the facts rather than going on rumors or hearsay. Having an open dialogue with customers and non-customers alike is part of who we are at BBB.
Thanks!
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