Great Lengths To Watch A Movie

Many apologies for the lapse in blogging. I'd like to say I was out partying because Obama won the election but I just haven't really felt like typing something up in a bit. Every time I thought of something I didn't have the time…well, anyway…enough excuses.  This is a post about Netflix.

Netflix has had Instant Watching for a while, allowing netflix users to stream a decent selection of movies and documentaries over the Internet along with your normal DVD rental activity. This has been restricted to only to Windows users, using Internet Explorer. Until recently that is. As a Mac user, I was happy to see that they had started testing a OS X version of the software. It works pretty well.

Except this Saturday. Wassy was over so she could get out of her apartment for a bit and get a change of scenery to do some work, and we decided to watch Immortal Beloved (which was a really great movie) on instant streaming. I started the movie up and it seemed to be going well, but then the aspect ratio got screwed up. There was much fiddling, but nothing could get it to work right. So I restarted into windows, thinking it was an OS X bug. A note about the way the Netflix streaming beta works. Once you opt in, you can't opt out and it changes your player software everywhere. So in windows, it was now doing the same thing.

I really wanted to watch the movie, so I was thinking of a way around it. Then I remembered my dad had a netflix account, and I probably knew what his password was going to be…so I tried it and it worked. At this point, my conscience took over and I decided to call my dad to make sure it was ok…but finally…we were able to watch the movie. All of this took about 20-30 minutes of screwing around to get it to go. But it was so worth it…

I haven't had that happen on any other movie since. It was just that one specific movie…other than that, I'm really happy with the new streaming experience.

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