netflix

[Bunny]

Just upped my netflix from 4 at a time to 5 at a time! who hoo!

such a nice indulgence, let's see if i can keep up with it though. i got spoiled by my friends, direct tv that i wanted "more"!

[Andrew]

Sounds good. The next step would be to stream them from Netflix. I haven't gotten off my butt to look into that.

[Bunny]

Yes,I have thought of that, but I would have to buy another unit to be able to stream them on my TV. Not that it would be hard, but......I'll probably wait until something breaks and i have to buy a new DVD player or something. I'm pretty well set up now and i don't get to read as much as I should as it is.

I have two movies coming tomorrow, yeah! I'm getting Panic in Needle Park, that oldie with Al Pacino. And some other random Whoopie Goldberg movie I had never heard of called something and Eddie.

[Andrew]

I found that more is better, because many of them will be clunkers. The only problem is if it's too many to keep track on the queue.

[Bunny]

Yes, already liking it! I have so many on my queue, I have to constantly pair it down as it is usually is over 200 movies plus the saved list of a good 50! I'm constantly revising it.

[Andrew]

I just tried streaming netflix to my laptop computer. It worked out much much better than I thought it would. I had assumed I could not enjoy watching a movie on my computer, but I quickly got used to it. And with this I can watch while in bed. I just had to figure out how to position and elevate the computer and how to lie in a position that didn't cause me problems. I began to like it so much I wondered if I could go back to watching on TV. As it happen, I have no problem with watching both ways.

This has opened up a whole new world of overcoming boredom depression, because I can stream when there are no DVDs on hand.

[Bunny]

Very nice! I think the early years of being sick for me would have been much better if Netflix had been around. I used to have to make one weekly trip to the library and just rewatch things over and over. I haven't gone to streaming yet, but one day. Nothing better than watching tv or movies in bed. I have my tv in my bedroom.

[Andrew]

It's also possible to stream to a TV set.

Oh, I neglected to mention that I also bought a Roku. This allows me to stream to my TV. As it happened, the Roku arrived but I was too sick to hook it up. But I was also very bored, so I tried streaming to the computer. That's how this all began. And now the Roku is hooked up, and I can watch either way.

[Bunny]

Does the Roku attach to your tv and to a phone outlet to stream? Or is it only wireless?

[Andrew]

In my case, the Roku outputs to my TV via cables that come with the Roku. The Roku gets input from the Internet via the same WiFi my computer users. I control the Roku with a remote. Not every Roku comes with the same connectors.

http://www.roku.com/roku-products
http://support.roku.com/entries/221022-h...t-to-my-tv
http://support.roku.com/entries/215672-h...e-internet