Cheapest way to watch Netflix on a TV

Skeeter · 21 Mar 2015 at 11:28

mattyfez said:
All the more reason to buy a cheap ex-office pc, mini form factor, plug a wifi card into it, HDMI to the telly box, audio cable to a separate amp for sound if that is your thing- stick win7 or Ubuntu on it then you have a full on media box, plus the benefit of a proper desktop operating system.

For under £30?

MagicBoy · 21 Mar 2015 at 11:34

mattyfez said:
All the more reason to buy a cheap ex-office pc, mini form factor, plug a wifi card into it, HDMI to the telly box, audio cable to a separate amp for sound if that is your thing- stick win7 or Ubuntu on it then you have a full on media box, plus the benefit of a proper desktop operating system.

It's a lot of faff just for Netflix and far from convenient.

Just buy a Roku stick.

DJMK4 · 21 Mar 2015 at 11:46

Skeeter said:
For under £30?

I bought my Dell 755 Small Form Factor for £25, albiet I paid £5 to upgrade the CPU to Intel 8400 Wolfdale and stuck an extra few gig of RAM in that I had lying around

I thought it was a good deal, so I got another one for £25 , upped CPU again and maxing out on 16GB of RAM

for my ESX host/Work lab box

Although I did have to pay a bit for the 4GB sticks of DDR2, they are not easy to come by and pretty expensive these days

Saying that Raspberri Pi or Chromecast seems to be the obvious choice here

ElliorR · 21 Mar 2015 at 13:16

Go round a friends house who has Netflix and watch it there? Also whilst there drink their drink and eat their food for a huge bonus.

soundb0y · 21 Mar 2015 at 13:46

bloodiedathame said:
What does he do in the spring, summer and autumn?

Farm.

D.P. · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:18

I just use the netflix app on my LG TV.

beachBOYken · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:23

Im guessing not the cheapest but Amazon fire tv is very good.

I primarily use it for netflix only but navigating between apps is super fast!

Plus its dead easy to setup unblockUS on it.

DJMK4 · 21 Mar 2015 at 15:00

Im going to throw "tablet" with microusb > HDMI cable

output your tablet to your TV, tablet has netflix on

NexusK · 21 Mar 2015 at 15:08

spudbynight said:
NOWTV box and sideload Netflix is surely the cheapest way

This. It might be limited to 720p but it's the cheapest which is what the OP asked for.

MagicBoy · 21 Mar 2015 at 15:17

Didn't think you could sideload Netflix on NowTV? I put Plex on mine which worked OK...

IC3 · 21 Mar 2015 at 15:17

If you have the time and patience get Raspberry Pi 2 with Openelec, install Netflix plugin and get a remote. It will use less power than a PC, less heat & noise due to having passive cooling system and it's the size of a credit card.

So at the end you have a nice multimedia machine which is easily capable of running 1080p movies and streams.

Edit:

You can also set up an US Proxy for the Netflix plugin in Openelec.

scotty365 · 21 Mar 2015 at 15:49

spudbynight said:
NOWTV box and sideload Netflix is surely the cheapest way

NexusK said:
This. It might be limited to 720p but it's the cheapest which is what the OP asked for.

I found this the best combo - with netfix side load and also the plex side (get the up to date version rarplex I think its called) this allows you to play anything from your PC to the TV via a app that also sorts all your films - music - etc.. and puts them in a library with covers and information, it's awesome. £10 for the device and you can also have anything available from sky, also, youtube app is useful for a quick blast of music. 720p max res but it's never been an issue as anything higher I would play via DVD or Blueray.