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Netflix has gotten a lot of praise for a polished experience using their
website. Well, "Watch Instantly" could benefit from some polish.
- No Linux support
- .. in fact, Microsoft Silverlight is now a requirement on Windows, so you can see who they're in bed with
- .. which turns out to be such a dog that it can't run in virtualbox without maxing out the CPU and dropping frames (on a Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz with 960x600 display resolution)
- No subtitles or closed captions available
- No choice of audio languages
- "Buffering"? What is this, realaudio in the year 1999? (of course, network logging shows the problem is remote, not local)
- .. and after buffering, which can take several minutes, it goes directly back to "play" regardless of whether you've walked away
- .. the play/pause button is not available during buffering to avoid this
- .. and if you walk away for too long with the video paused, it chews you out for it
- .. hitting reload may not actually take you back to where you were, despite the onscreen promise that it will. (this happens when you've navigated to a different episode of a series with the next/previous buttons)
- Every seek requires buffering again
- .. even if that segment of the video is already watched or is in the preloaded grey bar
- The Windows screensaver activates while watching the video
- .. and on deactivation, the player leaves fullscreen mode (only in virtualbox)
- Inactive buttons (such as play/pause during buffering) are indistinguishable from non-hovered buttons (such as fullscreen)
- Video quality is about on-par with a mediore divx rip, not with dvd (on a 3.0mbps connection)
Entry first conceived on 31 March 2009, 22:02 UTC, last modified on 24 July 2009, 2:54 UTC
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