“Does Netflix really belong on the small screen?” Mokey asks. “Absolutely. Because without it, playing video on the iPhone is just too damn time consuming for most people. Unless you choose to suckle at the Teat of Jobs by buying overpriced video directly from the iTunes Store, cramming an episode of The Office from your DVD collection into your phone previously entailed ripping, transcoding into a specific Apple-approved format, then loading it onto your phone manually via USB cable, only to delete it later when you ran out of room.”
Mokey reports, “On a device with always-on connectivity, streaming makes a lot more sense. Just as Pandora, Slacker and Last.fm captured the heart of lazy music listeners on the iPhone, Netflix has tapped into a built-in audience of roving couch potatoes who just didn’t have it in them to jump through the hoops to watch video on the go. For $8.99 a month (which can buy you about two movies on iTunes), consider us besmirched with our new pocket TVs.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We don’t think Nick means “besmirched.” Maybe “bewitched?”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I was wondering about besmirched myself. Oops!
He also means “rent” not “buy” when he talks about the $9 price point. But who’s quibbling? Words mean whatever the author wants, right?
He also obviously did not test the app, which is still very buggy and problem-prone.
Nope, I don’t think so either!
besmirched
Verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone • The journalists have defamed me! The article in the paper sullied my reputation
smear so as to make dirty or stained
A question for Netflix subscribers–
Can you have the app on multiple devices with the same account?
What happens if, for example, I put it on my wife’s iPhone, and we both try to stream with it at the same time?
“…consider us besmirched with our new pocket TVs.”
Besotted maybe, but sullied?
@TheConfused1
Yes you can use Netflix on one account with multiple devices simultaneously. I have watched Weeds on the iPad while my wife watched Dexter on the MacBook Pro while the kids watched a movie on the iMac. All on the same account and streaming without a hiccup.
@MacMonk
+1 Netflicks works on ALL our iOS devices (and our XBOX,PS3 & Wii) with just a single account. Best deal for movies around. We no longer have a “cable box”.
I tried it on all my iDevices. Works great! And free! What a great year. Best yet.
This is nothing less than spectacular. Netflix streaming MST3K on my iPhone 4 is absolutely crystal clear and works without a hitch. You can even pick up where you left off on another device. Gamechanger.
I believe you are limited to 4 devices or 5 to an account but if you like us have an iPhone,iPad, blu Ray and iMac and then my sister watches on her computer at her house. If i need an extra device I simply go into my account and turn off whatever I’m not watching at that time.
Wish they had more new shows but hey unlimited free streaming I guess you can’t complain.
Did he really have to say “Suckle at the Teat of Jobs”? That put me off my morning coffee.
On my iPhone I have yet to watch anything (movie,tv show) successfully.
It constantly stops, jump back a few seconds, start playing, stop, etc, etc.
Makes everything unwatchable.
Thank you, Netflix!
To anyone having problems streaming. I haven’t tried via 3G but it works great unless you have too many background apps with ios 4. Kill them all and it corrects
Can you connect your iOS device to a large screen TV and watch it there?
@ MacMonk–
Thank you for your response. This is really starting to seem like a great deal!
The only gripe this Digital Trends doesn’t mention is the one benefit of doing it the old way (movies via iTunes) at least in the US currently: AT&T took away the option of unlimited internet access. Damn pricks!
Kudos to Netflix!