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Looks like the corporations may finally be catching up with the xda devs. Not really. They're just starting to get their heads out of their collective booties.
http://lifehacker.com/5729461/hulu-plus-announced-for-android-netflix-possibly-coming-soon
I dumped my Netflix account a while ago once they raised the price as I hardly used it. If they finally get out an android app for mobile streaming I may just reactivate. Looking more forward to an official Hulu app.
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I dumped my Netflix account a while ago once they raised the price as I hardly used it. If they finally get out an android app for mobile streaming I may just reactivate. Looking more forward to an official Hulu app.
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same here with netflix
I couldnt care less about netfliz coming to android as i have it on my ipod touch and i tether to my epic all the time. As for hulu the ios version apparently you have to pay for a subscription, kinda sucks, ill just use the free hulu apk on here,
However netflix would look nice on my 4inch SAMOLED Screen compared to the much smaller ipod touch retina...
I honestly can't wait for either of these apps as I have subscriptions to both. I use HULU for Family Guy, Bones, Greys Anatomy etc. I use Netflix for movies and Spartacus. AWESOME!
If were gonna get Netflix on our Epics, it's gonna have to be a hacked version as they don't plan on releasing it to the Android market. It will be part of the carrier crapware on second gen Snapdragon devices. It's pre-installed on the LG Revolution, at least it was on one a CES. They believe that the fragmentation of Android makes it too difficult to implement a DRM solution across all devices.
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/01/27/netflix-android-app-headed-to-qualcomm-snapdragon-phones-first/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Netflix-Delays-Android-Mobile-App-Over-Security-DRM-Fears-314055/
There was talk about Netflix back in November from some netflix boss. "Early next year" was what it said I think. Still not here seems to be a common theme....
Would sure be nice to have though.
I have total faith in our dev teams to port this ASAP. Heck! They could probably even prove their fears to be reality. Just saying...
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Netflix would be awesome!
Netflix confirmed that they would develop for Snapdragon first. Another black eye for Galaxy S phones. Not that Samsung would even want Netflix competing with MediaHub, anyway.
I got rid of them also when they raised prices. I bought a Slingbox pro and got the sling player app and man I can't believe it took me this long to get this. It is pretty awesome and works very good even on 3g. I wonder if netflix will work well on 3g, but unless they start getting better releases you can stream it was a waste for me. With 4 HD DVR's from Directv and expanded storage on them all with Multi-room viewing the sling box and sling player is just amazing. Oops this is not a slingbox Dtv thread sorry
I'm definitely looking forward to Netflix on Android.
Looking forward to netflix, but there is no hurry like i said earlier, cause i stream it from my phone to my ip0d touch (wireless tether).
As for hulu app, i dont want to pay for hulu plus like the ipod touch version, glad there is the free mod in the development section.
Bet they both require 2.2.1 or 2.3
chadit said:
Bet they both require 2.2.1 or 2.3
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That shouldn't be a problem if you have dk28 installed.
Btw about nextflix, I think I heard something about it coming in the spring like around end of april or something. Not sure about that though.
I dont really care for hulu, but netflix would be interesting to see because I have an account set up for it.
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jasonsf said:
Netflix confirmed that they would develop for Snapdragon first. Another black eye for Galaxy S phones. Not that Samsung would even want Netflix competing with MediaHub, anyway.
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Thank you for reminding me that it existed.
For those interested in streaming, I bought a Roku (you can get as cheap as $59.00), and I stream that through another port on my slingbox. So I have my DirecTV box and my Roku both streaming to my Android.
I am considering getting a Hulu subscription, then I can stream movies and Hulu from my phone (plus can play them on my PS3 and Wii).
Thanks for confirming. I thought I was delusional about the price change. I still love Netflix. I was thinking about it the other night. I don't have cable tv. I use Hulu for free, Netflix for streams as well as other websites. But I was thinking I could illegally download certain tv eps. Though it's really nice to just know they're there. Just as I was talking to my girlfriend yesterday because we've been having financial issues and I said how much do you think you spend average on Redbox. She says about 20. I said well lets get Netflix switched back on. It has been canceled currently because my debit was stolen. Really sucked. Carry zipped and chained wallets!
+1 on Netflix and Hulu
It always cracks me up to read about "Netflix not on Android yet" with the 2-3 NETFLIX ADs on every page, all over the xda Forums. like a little twist of the NetFlix Knife
I for one use netflix all the time. I watch it while im at work during downtime. and on the road would be great especially for road trips. the streaming is amazing on home pc or through the ps3. can you imagine this on out phone and even the tabs?
Figured this was an update, as last word was from CES press release just saying NVIDIA and Netflix were excited. http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/03/motorola-xoom-and-atrix-4g-make-their-debut/#comments
We are working on it. It’s a 3-way cooperation. We supply the technology in the Tegra and the secure OS, the OEM must integrate it and work out an arrangement with Netflix. I think all parties are working towards a complete solution. Stay tuned." Ken Brown from NVIDIA
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Nice to see forward progress of any kind.
Thanks.
whoa. Excited to see what comes.
Not fast enough. They need to get this going.
I don't really care since once flash comes out on the 18th I will be able to use PlayOn to watch Netflix and Hulu from one application.
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I don't really care since once flash comes out on the 18th I will be able to use PlayOn to watch Netflix and Hulu from one application.
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I would rather avoid having to pay for an additional service on top of service fees from Netflix.
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I would rather avoid having to pay for an additional service on top of service fees from Netflix.
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I hear you, but note that PlayOn allows use of standard Hulu, meaning you save the $7.99/month of Hulu Plus. For me, that's well worth the $40 first year cost.
Can't wait for Flash, for this reason alone...
The sad thing is that all the delays are related to the DRM protecting the movies on Netflix, which are all readily downloadable all over the internet in higher quality long before they ever hit Netflix instant watch. It's like they're wasting their time for no real good reason.
And to make things more sad, the unavailability on our Android devices is probably going to lead some people to piracy as a way of getting content on their devices. They're shooting themselves in the foot.
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The sad thing is that all the delays are related to the DRM protecting the movies on Netflix, which are all readily downloadable all over the internet in higher quality long before they ever hit Netflix instant watch. It's like they're wasting their time for no real good reason.
And to make things more sad, the unavailability on our Android devices is probably going to lead some people to piracy as a way of getting content on their devices. They're shooting themselves in the foot.
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:-( sad.
But its good to hear that I will be able to watch movies hopefully soon one my Xoom.
Hopefully we will see this soon as I think the media end of things is what will attract many consumers. The iTunes, Hulu and netflix support makes that a compelling product for many. I hope that Netflix starts the avalance of media support for Android.
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Two things come to mind in light of the 3.1 update for the Xoom. First, to the notion that the Xoom is the "Nexus" of the tablet world, this is good news. We got the latest honeycomb update, direct from google, before anyone else. Thats what we were all hoping for, right? The optimist in me wants to think that this will be par for the course, at least for a while. HC is barely even a newborn right now, and with all the tablets coming out, you've gotta think there are more than a few timely updates down the road for us Xoom users.
Now for the bad news: Google Video. On the surface, it seems like a cool idea, and if it ever works for the wifi xoom I'll know a bit more about it. But why would Google create and feature a pay-to-play video app if an Android Netflix app was in development? They couldnt possibly compete with Netflix for quality, variety, or price (I can rent two movies for one day each for the price of a month of unlimited netflix). The answer, then, must be that they dont expect to compete. Netflix isnt coming any time soon, if ever, and Google has supplied us with a much more expensive replacement.
Now that we're seeing our first major update, what does the future look like to you?
Ipad is the same with iTunes and netflix....not an issue HC now has drm so will most certainly have netflix asap.
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Now for the bad news: Google Video. On the surface, it seems like a cool idea, and if it ever works for the wifi xoom I'll know a bit more about it. But why would Google create and feature a pay-to-play video app if an Android Netflix app was in development? They couldnt possibly compete with Netflix for quality, variety, or price (I can rent two movies for one day each for the price of a month of unlimited netflix). The answer, then, must be that they dont expect to compete. Netflix isnt coming any time soon, if ever, and Google has supplied us with a much more expensive replacement.
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You're reading WAYYY too much into this. Google just proved they can get content providers to agree and stream movies on Android with DRM. The products are completely different. Subscription and pay-per-rent services can co-exist. I can't watch Netflix on a plane last I checked.
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You're reading WAYYY too much into this. Google just proved they can get content providers to agree and stream movies on Android with DRM. The products are completely different. Subscription and pay-per-rent services can co-exist. I can't watch Netflix on a plane last I checked.
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Good point about offline.
Also, new releases, or movies up to the demand of Harry Potter, Inception and The Kings Speech would take a month to get to Netflix DVD rentals and probably years till they made their way to on demand streaming.
Movies like this would presumably be available on or near release date for rental in the market. (Although at a slightly higher price than I'd like to pay)
Also played with the Xoom, the Flyer, the TouchPad, and the Tab 10.1.
The Xoom felt well built, but heavy. The Flyer is crippled with Sense and its single core CPU, though it felt well built, its over priced.
So, I was down to playing with the Tab 10.1 and Transformer. Both felt well built and light. The Tab was 100 USD more expensive, and I believe Samsung wants to bring TouchWiz to their HoneyComb devices?
I honestly almost bought the Transformer. Thought, I held back because Netflix isn't officially supported yet. I also didn't see Skype Video either. These things would be essential for me and I wanted to research whether there were unsupported methods for these.
So, what are people using their Transformer/Tablets for? I want Netflix, Hulu, Skype Video. Although, I believe Gtalk Video does work?
Also, just a friendly reminder to everyone. If you play with a demo model at a retail store, don't leave your Facebook account logged in. The Flyer, the Tab 10.1, the Xoom, and the Transformer models all had accounts left logged in. The people are lucky I was the one who went hands on with the tablet next because I logged them out without so much as a status update.
Agreed it is unfortunate that things like netflix, hbogo are not usuable on this tab. I could live with watching HBO GO via browser, but flash seems to be all but broken on many peoples TF's also, so that is out the window for now too,
Thanks for the reply. I was pretty close to buying one, they were offering 18 months zero interest financing. But, without those crucial apps, what am I going to do with it that I can't do on my Hp dm1z.
I really agree its not about having 120000 apps,its about netflix,hulu plus,hbo go and words with friends tablet edition, with out those apps honeycomb will never appeal to the masses
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Also, just a friendly reminder to everyone. If you play with a demo model at a retail store, don't leave your Facebook account logged in. The Flyer, the Tab 10.1, the Xoom, and the Transformer models all had accounts left logged in. The people are lucky I was the one who went hands on with the tablet next because I logged them out without so much as a status update.
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I'm not sure I could have resisted to be honest...
case0 said:
I'm not sure I could have resisted to be honest...
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I'm a nice guy.
You guys have no idea how much potential this transformer has.I've rooted mine and i've had nothing but fun with this thing,the speed is great and the flash works great with hulu.It might not be all that hot playing with it for 5 minutes in a store,once you root it and get the cpu set,its one of the best tabs out and i've had a xoom and samsung.Its only a matter of time before your apps will be supported(via updates).
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I really agree its not about having 120000 apps,its about netflix,hulu plus,hbo go and words with friends tablet edition, with out those apps honeycomb will never appeal to the masses
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Rather US centric view there?
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I really agree its not about having 120000 apps,its about netflix,hulu plus,hbo go and words with friends tablet edition, with out those apps honeycomb will never appeal to the masses
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Is that an attempt at sarcasm because it should be! I wouldn't want to watch tv shows on my 10' tablet, that's why i have a 47' plasma
I don't see the use of Netflix on a tablet unless you wanna watch it lying down on your bed and grow fat.
There are many other countries in this world, and people there have no idea what netflix and huhu are
anyway, agreed honeycomb should have provided native support for them...
Same here.
I been waiting for netflix and I do see it on android market now on transformer however it won't let you download it. Hopefully this will be updated soon.
Hulu plus isn't worth paying for.. especially those advertisements.
However, you can just go to hulu.com and watch it for free.
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Same here.
I been waiting for netflix and I do see it on android market now on transformer however it won't let you download it. Hopefully this will be updated soon.
Hulu plus isn't worth paying for.. especially those advertisements.
However, you can just go to hulu.com and watch it for free.
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Eh? Hulus premium offers archived streaming. Netflixes streams aren't really that good to be honest.
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frosty5689 said:
I don't see the use of Netflix on a tablet unless you wanna watch it lying down on your bed and grow fat.
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And how a couch would be better? XD
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You guys have no idea how much potential this transformer has.I've rooted mine and i've had nothing but fun with this thing,the speed is great and the flash works great with hulu.It might not be all that hot playing with it for 5 minutes in a store,once you root it and get the cpu set,its one of the best tabs out and i've had a xoom and samsung.Its only a matter of time before your apps will be supported(via updates).
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I fully agree that these all have a lot of potential, but the question is what am I going to do with a 400 dollar paperweight while I wait for updates to bring features that should have been there from the gate.
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I did the same thing yesterday. Went to a few stores, handled all of them and finally made my decision. Transformer 32gb with the dock. While the Galaxy Tab was in my top 3, it has no sd expansion, hdmi and a horribly weak kb dock. Even my non-technical wife looked at the two and thought it was a simple decision. All charged up and ready to tackle day 1. (Root and GO!)
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Agreed it is unfortunate that things like netflix, hbogo are not usuable on this tab. I could live with watching HBO GO via browser, but flash seems to be all but broken on many peoples TF's also, so that is out the window for now too,
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I run HBOgo through Dolphin and I have not had any issues so far.
The Netflix thing sucks. I was not happy to discover after buy TF on Thursday that Netflix didn't work and Skype won't do video.
I hate conspiracy theories, but I have to wonder what Jobs is paying Netflix under the table to slow development.
LOL at people complaining at things not working I had a gtablet since November...
Things on this work really well.
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LOL at people complaining at things not working I had a gtablet since November...
Things on this work really well.
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Yes, but the G-Tablet ran Froyo, not the Google-blessed HoneyComb.
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You guys have no idea how much potential this transformer has.I've rooted mine and i've had nothing but fun with this thing,the speed is great and the flash works great with hulu.It might not be all that hot playing with it for 5 minutes in a store,once you root it and get the cpu set,its one of the best tabs out and i've had a xoom and samsung.Its only a matter of time before your apps will be supported(via updates).
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Got to agree with him. Once you root, and get a decent ROM on it, it's a great tablet. Grab the dock if you can, and it's even better. The Samsung is a nice tablet, but I don't care for the excessively bright and non-real colors on the screen. It makes me think that they just turned the brightness and contrast way up to make it seem like it's so bright and vivid. Also, the lack of any extra storage slot (ie SD/microSD) hinders it quite a bit. Ever tried to transfer a large file (>200megs) over wifi or bluetooth? Much easier to just use a card. I have to do this quite often (from phone to transformer) and for friends. Either way, I love mine.
Buy what you want, it's your money so spend it how you want. I love my transformer. Yes, the Samsung screen is 'oh so great', if you like that. I don't, but the Transformer screen is just as good. And, my favorite part, is I can hold onto the Transformer (golf ball dimples on the back of it are awesome...not some smooth piece of metal that gets tons of fingerprints and is slippery).
I am new to the tablet world. A few weeks ago my gateway laptop died after 6 or so years of dedicated service, and before it happened i had already decided that i was going to go to a tablet when it did.
to this point i am enjoying the tablet, although i wont say it has been an easy transition. Really wanting a bluetooth keyboard folio.
I am out of town for work, aka long boring nights in hotel rooms. I was considering renting a movie through market, but then i started looking at the prices. Most of the movies on there you can rent at a red box for a dollar, what makes them worth 4 through android market???
if anything its more profitable for everyone to distribute the movies in this way.
Anyway thats my gripe, perhaps others will opine.
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i agree with you buddy the movies are massive expensive plus i dont think that quality is great. so more i often i use either netflix or use "a torrent downloader" market app and dowload AVI files with mx player
I set up a server that streams my video collection to my android device using plex. Saves my sanity...
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danow11 said:
I am new to the tablet world. A few weeks ago my gateway laptop died after 6 or so years of dedicated service, and before it happened i had already decided that i was going to go to a tablet when it did.
to this point i am enjoying the tablet, although i wont say it has been an easy transition. Really wanting a bluetooth keyboard folio.
I am out of town for work, aka long boring nights in hotel rooms. I was considering renting a movie through market, but then i started looking at the prices. Most of the movies on there you can rent at a red box for a dollar, what makes them worth 4 through android market???
if anything its more profitable for everyone to distribute the movies in this way.
Anyway thats my gripe, perhaps others will opine.
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Generally the studios set a price and then the various distributors add a small markup to make it viable for them. So a studio may say, we'll license Star Trek to you for $2 per rental. Then the distributor (in this case Google) may add 99c or $1.99 to make it $2.99 or $3.99 and rent it for that amt. for a certain period of time. In other words, those are the prices you're going to find for renting movies online, period because they've more or less been set by the industry. Maybe a $1 cheaper here or there, but those are the general prices.
I don't know if you're into Anime, but for next time you may want to consider crunchyroll.com which has an app on the market, (i subscribe to the site) there's a lot of free anime on there too or if that's not your thing crackle comes to mind, though the crackle app I don't think has been optimized for HC - you may be able to view video through the website directly.
I like the offline option on the market videos - something I wish netflix had. If I have the time I usually redbox a few movies and rip them for the Acer.