I signed up in the first few days … i commented above but here are more detailed observations – would love to hear what you think …

1. I found the phone number they had for customer service wasnt 24 7 though it was advertised as such and I was put through to a switch in the wrong department rather than the right person so invariably spent some time telling the netflix employee that Netflix was in Ireland and the Ireland was not part of the UK This has now been fixed and I have to say the customer service people I spoke to were really excellent – even when they couldn’t help you – they were very nice about it

2. they are offering paypal on a trial basis to some subscibers – I’m not in the group unfortunately and as i use a prepaid credit card want to avoid using a card ….. I’ve told them my predicament and I’m waiting for paypal to be on general offer … in the meantime I was advised to open up av different trial period using different details

3. the choice of movies and tv programmes is quite poor – I think what Ireland and the UK have is 10% of the offering in the US … also there are no irish movies/tv programmes and what they have is hit and miss – some great content but alot of movies with an imdb rating of under 4 – i tend to look for at least 7 Also whilst its possible to indicate your tastes etc – there seems to be no way to exclude films from certain countries – i never watch asian movies for example – just my taste – yet many of the movies are from that genre …

4. i was told the content would be updated on the 1st and 15th of every month – this hasn’t happened – indeed it used to be possible to scroll down on the home page to see the section ‘latest’ or ‘recently added’ – this section is gone now – maybe because they haven’t added any more content …

5. its still a very cheap offering and if i didnt only like action/thriller/adventure I am sure i would be happy to the the romantic / comedy / other offerings …

thanks for your time folks!

Rory

Michele

Flo

M

Both my Netflix account and Apple TV are set for standard definition.

This way an average movie uses about 300mb. This gives me (in theory) 833 hours before I reach the 250 gb allowance. Since there are 744 hours in a 31 days month, no worries.

By the way, I only have a 1.8 mb speed broadband and it works perfectly in standard definition.

Hope this will help.

By the way, my kids love Netflix… And so do I, no more scratched DVDs!!!

For Orlando, if you haven’t read Doctorow’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” it would be an ideal time.

If you avoid high definition titles then you *should* be ok, though I’m not 100% sure how “big” a standard definition film is on Netflix. I suspect it’s below 1 gigabyte, but I could be completely wrong.

A lot will depend on how strictly your ISP enforces any cap.

Thanks for your comment

Michele

I’m thinking strongly of getting this service, I have sky plus with movies and one extra connection costing me 72e/month. Not really up on download amounts I’m worried I’ll surpass my quota, I have a 15GB allowance from 3 network on mi fi. Would this be sufficient for average viewing of netflix?? Very confused…