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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Who has it? How does it work? I've heard people say they use that instead of cable...trying to figure out what to get. Is there a way I can get it on my tv or does it have to be DVDs and on the computer?
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Location: Texas | If you don't have a smart TV, you get a Roku from Best Buy and hook it up to your TV. It has a remote with it, so it's easy to use. If you don't want to do that, you can send the DVDs back and forth to Netflix. |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Fun2Run - 2014-05-22 1:21 AM
If you don't have a smart TV, you get a Roku from Best Buy and hook it up to your TV. It has a remote with it, so it's easy to use. If you don't want to do that, you can send the DVDs back and forth to Netflix.
So if I get this thing I can watch it on my tv? So are there a lot of things to watch on there? |
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| I love netflix. I watch mine on the tv through the wii. U have to have wifi in your house too. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I remember NetFlux from the DVD/mail days... It would take one day to get to me... but 5 days to get back.... Biggest ripoff I ever saw... Never do business with them again.. |
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| Bnparlay - 2014-05-22 12:52 AM I love netflix. I watch mine on the tv through the wii. U have to have wifi in your house too.
We have a wired Roku, not wireless. The hubb ordered it on Amazon. You have to have internet, but not wireless. We do still watch some cable TV, but mostly we watch Netflix. No commercials, and you can pause any time you need a break. |
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Location: Florida.. | I have account and pay monthly and just watch on my computer I don't get anything in the mail and love it .my son has it to and watches it thru his game system on big TV . no no movies come in mail though. Its all thru account on computor .we sign in and choose what we want to watch free
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| I got a DVD BluRay Player that allows me to watch netflix though my dumb tv. it is pretty nice but i couldn't do without cable. In my other room i use the wii to watch netflix also.
also We got google chromecast. So i can take my videos of my running off the ipad and throw them up to the tv and watch them on the big screen!! It is wonderful! and my hubby watches youtube with it :) it was like $30 and was money well spent! |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I've had it for almost 3 yrs, that and hulu plus. I got rid of my satelite subscribtion and just use that. It cost $8/mo and you can watch most cable shows and movies when you want. I have a streaming box that uses my wireless internet and plugs into my TV. Once you subscribe you can watch in any smart device you have. I can watch it on my TV, phone, tablet or computer. And it is a direct debit so I don't have to worry about if I paid the bill or not. Hope this helps |
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| Hulu though there is alot u cant watch.. like NCIS!!! or anything on USA and a few other channels |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | Kgirl - 2014-05-22 7:47 AM
Hulu though there is alot u cant watch.. like NCIS!!! or anything on USA and a few other channels
That is what sucks about Hulu...no CBS shows. But we don't hardly watch TV much anyway. Still beats $100+ a month that I was paying with Dish. |
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Location: Washington | We have it on the computer. We haven't had cable/dish/direct TV in over 5 years. We started when it was the DVD's in the mail. Never had any problems that way. Lots of shows to watch, most movies seem to be the lower end, TV series are usually a season behind. They are getting better though, there are now Disney movies (We have two daughters). I think if you want the "newer" movies you have to do mail in or pay more? I'm not sure, we're outside more then in so we don't fork over the money.
I like the pause when you want, re-watch when you want and you can shut down and start where you left off hours, days, etc. later. |
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| I think the younger you are, the more you enjoy it. We've had it a few years now, and I've watched one movie on it. my kids almost exclusivly watch it. We only allow television/netflix after supper, and never during the day. They prefer it to cable. |
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Location: Arkansas | My internet is not good enough for it to work. I tried it. I can't stream anything. |
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Location: Nebraska | I have it on my computer. I can watch it on my phone, kindle or computer. If I want to watch it on the tv, I just plug my computer in and set my computer so it doesn't go to sleep. It works pretty good. We still have satellite but most of the time I use netflix. |
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Location: Florida.. | I dont watch tv and havent in 5 months.. I choose not to so I enjoy the series they offer.. and movies that netflix offers. Im not a big tv person so if you are you might want cable or dish.lol. so you get movies in the mail from them? I guess I dont belong to that package.. glad I dont. I just get it right online. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I would love to try one of those services, but the only unlimited Internet we can get is dial-up. Boo! The part that sucks about living in the middle of nowhere... |
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Location: That part of Texas | I had it for years -- both the DVD and ability to stream online. I gave it up last year because I got completely rid of Directv and found that most of the stuff that I could watch on Netflix I could get through Hulu Plus and Amazon on my Kindle tablet.
I don't think I've turned my tv on in about 2 months. I watch all of my shows on my Kindle tablet off of either Amazon Prime or Hulu. Amazon Prime has many of the ones that you can't get on Hulu and while you have to pay for some episodes, it's much less than a cable/satellite bill. Same with movies and stuff not on Netflix or Hulu.
Using my Kindle to watch stuff, I like being able to move from my bed, to the recliner, to the kitchen and even to go outside and run water in the yard without having to stop my shows. I just hold my Kindle in my hand and go from room to room. I fold laundry, clean the tub and practically anything else while I'm watching stuff because I don't always have time to just sit and watch tv. It's nice.
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| I've had Netflix for about a year, I just do the dvd's in the mail. I don't have enough internet MB to stream or watch videos/movies. We have Dish satellite tv and wildblue internet since we live in a very rural area. I get a dvd in 2 days and it gets back to them in 2 days so its a good deal for us. I like it.  |
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| It's ok but most of the movies are really old and not many big name movies. We've been really disappointed with the selection. There is however a great selection for kids. |
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| Imwas thinking about getting a subscription but i have a wirless jetpac its 4g. He said that i can get a booster and antenna and boost my service for about 100.00 |
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Location: Soon to be outta here:) | I have Netflix and Hulu plus and I really like them both. Id rather have those than have cable. If you don't have a gaming system or whatever but have a newer tv all you need to do is buy an HDMI cord (I got mine for 7 bucks on a black Friday sale) and plug it into the tv and the laptop. Then you can put the show on Netflix or hulu on your computer, but it also plays from the tv like you are watching it on tv. I love it! |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | daisycake123 - 2014-05-23 6:35 AM Imwas thinking about getting a subscription but i have a wirless jetpac its 4g. He said that i can get a booster and antenna and boost my service for about 100.00
It will eat through your 4gig in no time...just an fyi...
We had it but dropped it when we couldn't get what we wanted. Went the Roku route and have Amazon Prime so we can at least rent the new releases cheap and right when they come out. What sucks now though is we lost our wireless and have to go through Verizon and it is horrendously expensive. Streaming eats alot of data so just be aware of that. |
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Location: CTX | I have the DVD version. Started using it in 2005 and love it. I get 3 DVD's in the mail, and when I am done watching them I mail them out. Two days later I have another one in the mail. |
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Location: Florida.. | LDH - 2014-05-27 8:38 PM I have Netflix and Hulu plus and I really like them both. Id rather have those than have cable. If you don't have a gaming system or whatever but have a newer tv all you need to do is buy an HDMI cord (I got mine for 7 bucks on a black Friday sale) and plug it into the tv and the laptop. Then you can put the show on Netflix or hulu on your computer, but it also plays from the tv like you are watching it on tv. I love it!
from where? thanks for that information.. I dont watch tv but netflix on my laptop.. be nice to have it on my big one. |
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| We have a computer hooked up to the tv, and use netflix through the media player. It has a remote and everything. We watch netflix and hulu (the basic version). I like it. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We live out a ways and have wildblue wireless with a data limit of 15 g a month. We're still able to watch netflix and amazon movies on our roku some though. We might do a movie a weekend or a couple sitcoms and won't run out of data. |
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Location: Deep South | I think the selection on Netflix sucks.
I much prefer HuluPlus. It has all the TV shows I like to watch, I don't really watch movies though, I couldn't tell you about those. |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | oija - 2014-05-29 3:57 PM We live out a ways and have wildblue wireless with a data limit of 15 g a month. We're still able to watch netflix and amazon movies on our roku some though. We might do a movie a weekend or a couple sitcoms and won't run out of data.
Sattellite is different then cellular wireless. I have no idea how or why because when it was explained to me it went over my head but it is something about different signals or channels or whatever. All I know is that when we had wireless internet we were fine but now that we are on cellular our data goes in no time and it sucks. |
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