you can finally speed through your queue like you could on the 360

I was pretty excited when I heard it was coming to Canada. Equally dissapointed when I saw the selection. Literally nothing that I've searched has been available.

You're not alone. I'm nitty about catching every word in something I watch.

It also appears when watching a series you cant view the plot of each episode anymore

I think it is worth watching. If only to see how the blind people react when they can finally see. However, to me I find most things about NK interesting.

Episode plots show for me if I go to pick episode or whatever.

the only show I tried so far was Highlander and it just shows the seasons plot not the episode.

My sister is this way, to the point that she frequently won't even watch a movie unless captions are available, and I think it's an unreasonable expectation for the audience to have. Some scenes are filmed such that you're not supposed to be able to understand everything that was said. Some dialogue is intentionally indistinct, or at least recorded in such a way that you have to listen very carefully to catch it all, and even then you can't be sure if you heard everything right. Captions destroy the intended experience in scenes like that. (My sister also doesn't have the best hearing, and as far as that goes I can understand why she wants captions, but I also think she has an unreasonable expectation of understanding every single spoken word and gets upset when she can't, rather than accepting some verbal ambiguity as part of the experience.)

Not that I'd be opposed to having a subtitle option on Netflix. I agree that it would be a useful feature and something they should add for those who want/need it.

Steve

If she's hard of hearing and knows it captions are probably a good idea. I imagine it would be frustrating not knowing whether you missed a crucial plot point because her hearing is bad or if it was supposed to be mumbles.

She's a little hard of hearing, but she's also a really impatient viewer. She gets upset when a script leaves things even slightly ambiguous, expects to understand every detail of what's going on at all times, and I think her insistence on captions is at least partly related that. She (both literally and figuratively) wants everything spelled out. I'll be watching a movie with her and she'll always have to ask "why is this happening?" or "where did this character go after (such and such event)", and almost always my answer is "we don't know yet, hasn't been explained, wait and see". I don't know if the other caption-insistent people in the thread are like that, but with my sister it's not just about her hearing.

While this may be true in some instances it's more likely that screenwriters intend for their written words to be understood, and only in rare cases do they not. After all, Snatch even had an option to turn on subtitles *just* for the gypsies.

My bigger concern w/r/t subtitles is that sometimes I find myself reading them and only watching the movie in my periphery, which isn't ideal.

Ya, that definitely sounds like it's not just the hearing. I hope you didn't see Inception with her.

Same here. Even if I try to ignore the captions I can only do it for a short while and then I'm back to reading them. It's almost like a reflex.

Her dismissive comment about 20 minutes into The Matrix was "too weird", so yeah I don't think I'd watch that with her. We don't agree on movies very much tbh.

The National Geographic "Lockdown" series is very good. Man, prisons are ****ed up. (yes, that is my expert analysis as a legal professional)

Lol, sounds like my ex.

Anyone know how to see the control panel during a movie on the ps3 app? You used to press triangle and it brought up a thing with lots of options, including subtitles, but I cant seem to find it? Mostly just looking to figure out how to get subtitles on.

I'm not positive but I don't think it is available for a lot of the titles

Most of the movies don't have a sound an audio option on their main menu which is where the CC is I think.

So far nothing I have went to watch had a 5.1 stereo option. It will probably be featured more on new releases

Thought this was kind of crazy


Netflix Instant Accounts For 20 Percent of Peak U.S. Bandwith Use

the most important part is left out

internet porn accounts for 65% and actual work 15%.

Huge jump in the stock yesterday, woulda, coulda, shoulda...


Anywho, saw Bad Lieutenant because for some reason I heard that it was good and it was the most abhorrent piece of monkey spunk I've ever seen.

Probably because you didn't watch Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, which was one of the greatest movies ever.

All of Battlestar Galactica (new series) is available. If you haven't seen it, definitely check out the first episode (It's the 3 part miniseries). I've turned on Sci-fi haters to this series with that first episode.

edit:

scratch that. Disk 1 is the miniseries, Instant viewing only has disk two which is technically episode 1 of the show. But it still starts off great.

Seriously? The original Bad Lieutenant is one of the best movies I've seen imo. Port of Call is good too, but still way prefer the first one.

And yeah, the selection in Canada is BRUUUUUUTAL. Anyone know why it is so bad? Is it CRTC issues, cost or does Netflix just not give a ****?

The watch instantly feature is "okey" at best for TV shows, and downright awful for movies

Unless you have been in jail for the past 4 years and missed stuff from 2006, than maybe you will enjoy it