Lovefilm

s0ck · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:26

Is it any good or what?
I'm not interested in posting DVDs, I just want to stream the films. Are they HD quality? 720? 1080? Is there a minimum contract?
Anything you can tell me would be great

Tom0 · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:27

Was talking about this to someone today. Apparently the selection for streaming is really poor. Wether it will get better in future... Who knows..

Windle · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:29

We currently send our video at around 800kbit/sec. This was picked to be compatible with the majority of internet connection speeds in the UK. This figure is the amount of data transferred per second while watching the video. The lower it is the more we have to pack the video into smaller files and the more issues may arise. We will revise this over time as improvements are made in internet speeds but it does mean a quality comparable to a normal transmission of a television. Also some features – in particular Water, Fast Action and large blocks of colour - can have artefacts due to the limitations of encoding to this bit-rate

ste_bla · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:30

Really poor compared to iplayer etc tbh try a free trial and will let u stream vids after set up - within 8 hours for us

RomanNose · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:30

Why not do it a much better way? Get sab+ couch potato.

s0ck · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:35

chaosdestro0 said:
Why not do it a much better way? Get sab+ couch potato.

I was hoping there was a legit way of utilising my 30Mb cable connection

I've just watched a bit of Elizabeth something or other. Quality is terrible

s0ck · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:37

ste_bla said:
Really poor compared to iplayer etc tbh try a free trial and will let u stream vids after set up - within 8 hours for us

I've used iPlayer a bit recently but couldn't see the option to switch to HD. Annoyingly, it used to be there when I was on ADSL!!

Xelene · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:38

I trialled the PS3 streaming solution, cancelled it due to awful sub youtube quality and rubbish selection.

Colbaker · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:38

Not really worth it for streaming, not many titles and quality not great, i am using them at the moment to watch series dvd's but will probably cancel it after.

Glaucus · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:41

s0ck said:
I've used iPlayer a bit recently but couldn't see the option to switch to HD. Annoyingly, it used to be there when I was on ADSL!!

It's still there at the end of the progress bar.

Hopefully tesco will drag love film forward. I thought they would be a lot more progressive. The quality isn't great at all. Companies need to get with the times. You wouldn't of thought they would have learnt from the music industry, but they haven't. It's not hard at all to over several qualities.

Also thinking of cancelling subscription, use to use them loads, think I've had my last 3 blu rays for about 6 weeks and at £15 a month, be cheaper just to use virgin on demand or buy on iTunes.

Uhtred · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:44

i will echo the above - streaming service isn't worth the money

cymatty · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:46

Uhtred said:
i will echo the above - streaming service isn't worth the money

The rental service is good, streaming is not.

Although the selection is better if you are willing to pay £3+ per stream.

RomanNose · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:51

s0ck said:
I was hoping there was a legit way of utilising my 30Mb cable connection

I've just watched a bit of Elizabeth something or other. Quality is terrible

Who cares? It's only a tenner and your money goes towards a good speed and retention, it's not as if your isp is going to have a hissy fit because you use rule one. Currently if I want a film, I just go to imdb and it takes two clicks to add it to my queue. Currently I have the priority of 1080P--> 720P--> 480P, a tenner for a mind blowing amount of content is a steal!