Netflix Interruptus
So, being the owner of an Xbox 360 console, I finally decided to upgrade to the new “Xbox Experience” a few days ago, mainly to try out the integrated Netflix streaming movie capability in the new dashboard. So far I’ve been super impressed with the picture quality (the movie I was watching was available in HD), however less than impressed with the service overall on my cable connection. Pretty regularly the picture would freeze and the player would refill the buffer, which would take about a minute or so. I eventually had to just give up on the movie.
I have a feeling these hiccups were mainly because I was attempting to watch a movie at 8pm on a Saturday night, and their streaming servers simply couldn’t keep up. Looks really promising though, if they get a handle on the bandwidth thing. I’m going to try again on a weeknight to see if I get better results…
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