MY MISTAKE, see below!
What is the outlook for Albany outbackers with no NBN for quite a time in the
offing. Just to slow things down there are NOW community outpourings over
towers! I have ADSL-2 with Turbo Boost which streams well but I have not
looked at full movies. Maybe I should just buy an Apple movie and try on Apple
TV to answer that?
Severin
> On 26 Mar 2015, at 12:35 am, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au
> <mailto:wa...@macwizardry.com.au>> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> For those they may not be aware, Netflix hit Australia yesterday,..er well
> day before yesterday now,..24th March.
>
> http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/blunt-instrument/netflix-launch-marks-new-era-for-australian-tv-20150324-1m6696.html
>
> <http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/blunt-instrument/netflix-launch-marks-new-era-for-australian-tv-20150324-1m6696.html>
> http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/how-the-australian-netflix-differs-from-the-us-service-20150324-1m60g8.html
>
> <http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/how-the-australian-netflix-differs-from-the-us-service-20150324-1m60g8.html>
> http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/netflix-v-stan-v-presto-v-quickflix-v-ezyflix-v-foxtel-play-your-guide-to-streaming-video-services-in-australia-20150324-1m6h46.html
>
> <http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/netflix-v-stan-v-presto-v-quickflix-v-ezyflix-v-foxtel-play-your-guide-to-streaming-video-services-in-australia-20150324-1m6h46.html>
>
> Pricing starts at AUD$8.99/month and has two other plans (AUD$11.99 and
> AUD$14.99). They also have a 30day free trial, and iinet and Optus don't
> count the streaming data on your plan.
>
> I set up the free trial as thought I'd give it a try. Just went with the
> basic $8.99 plan (Standard Definition) which lets it stream to one TV/device.
>
> On my LED TV the quality isn't all that great, definitely notice it's SD, and
> the streaming although OK most of the time, did seem to get the "stutters"
> here and there. (on three different shows and three different devices).
> Some of the content is still way behind, and not as good as what the US gets
> (as mentioned in the above articles as well). (e.g. Downton Abbey is still
> only at season 4, whereas the UK has finished Season 5,..so miles behind,..as
> my wife pointed out to me,..lol).
> It was pretty easy to set up on all devices, from creating the account to
> setting up Netflix on the AppleTV, log in with my username and password (yay
> for Apple Remote App and copy and paste from 1Password,..sooo much simpler
> then having to type it all in!!)
> Let Andrew have a play in the kids area to see what he thought,..and he had a
> movie streaming pretty quickly,…lol. So I guess that counts as a pass
> there,…lol.
>
> Overall, pretty easy to use and set up. Not sure if I'll keep it going at
> $9/month for what we watch, and I still think the AppleTV walks all over it.
> But hopefully it will open up a bit more (lot more) competition over here and
> get some of media moguls actually realising what century we're in (I wont'
> get start on any of that,…..).
>
> For more info have a look at Netflix website -
> https://www.netflix.com/au/ <https://www.netflix.com/au/>
>
> And iinet's info on it here - http://www.iinet.net.au/netflix/
> <http://www.iinet.net.au/netflix/>
>
> Oh, and I like the first article how Western Australia gives Queensland a run
> for their money as the worst pirates in Australia,…lol. (And apparently
> Australia is one of the worst pirating countries in the world)…..but that's a
> whole other story.
>
> Hope something there helps.
>
> Enjoy!!
>
> Kind regards
> Daniel
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