anyone have netflix account?
 

I'm wondering what the quality of the stream is, if I use my HDTV as a monitor? Wondering if it is close to DVD quality.

apparently was pretty good for these two guys

http://www.news.com/5208-10784_3-0.h...67491&start=-1

Its a pretty good stream, but not nearly HD quality for me. We watch Netflix movies and tv shows on our 17" flatscreen monitor and it is fine.

But after the crappy quality I have gotten in the past watching CSTV games on the computer, and now MTN broadcasts, I have not come to expect anything more than barely visible. I have lower standards than you do.

I've only watched 5 minutes of a movie to test it out, but the quality was pretty good. I've got a 22 inch widescreen monitor, and internet from cable with generally about 4900 kbps downstream. I would say that the video quality was similar to what you see on a SDTV, not as good as HDTV, but very watchable. It was certainly far, far better than we get with a slingbox.

Stock is down 71% since July, from $305 to $74.

http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.htm...ory_quote_link

We watched the first season of The Walking Dead just recently. But honestly, we have been putting money into it without using it, which is pretty stupid. I blame my wife.

I find that we use it in spurts. I've gone months without using it followed by days of consecutive use.

I need to learn more about how to read financial data because I don't know how to accurately analyze their price-to-earnings ratio right now to see if the stock has potential to recover enough to make an investment worthwhile.

netflix benefited fro having some very favorable media rights deals, which are expired/expiring. And now those media companies want their piece of the pie, so that's putting netflix in a difficult space. Can they actually get the financial models to work?

Seems like Netflix is currently in the best place to do so. If they can't do it, someone else will. For example Amazon prime.

I've used Amazon digital streaming in my classes before. For example, I wanted to show a portion of The Talented Mr. Ripley to illustrate a philosophical point, and it cost $2.99 for it to stream in HD, which I thought was affordable.

It's still to be discovered if a monthly fee, pay-per-view, or fee-for-download model will become the ultimate game. It'll be interesting to see if the monthly fee catches on with an option-to-buy right for a nominal charge. I could see the number of times any one show/film can be viewed in a streaming model becoming the norm, with the purchase option encouraged.

I just don't know how to view the stock because there's no consolidation phase really because of the small number of real players in the market. I bought the stock years ago at about $10 a share because I really liked the company and the service it provided, and then I sold it all at about $20 a share. This was before there was any streaming on the Netflix site. Now, the game has changed too much for me to enter with my investing dollars, pitiful as they are, because I just don't know enough.