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| Thread ID: 123962 | 2012-03-28 18:29:00 | Quickflix content streaming service launches in NZ | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1267308 | 2012-03-29 19:54:00 | Not impressed with the Movie selection and the TV selection is worse than TiVo added to that the "Sony" only hardware platforms it works on I'm not too interested.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1267309 | 2012-03-29 20:23:00 | I only had time to try a few minutes of 2 older movies myself,the last starfighter (shitty quality) and batman (just ok quality). I'd rate the picture as somewhere between VHS and DVD quality, about the same as a mediocre 700Mb rip. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for a couple of months and see if it gets better but my fatso subscription isn't in danger at this stage (I mainly use fatso for blu-ray and this isn't in the same league at all). It did seem to play smoothly for me until I tried skipping ahead, but that's to be expected. I didn't play more than 5 minutes though so maybe I stopped it before any potential buffering issues showed up. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1267310 | 2012-03-29 20:33:00 | Yeah you woulda stopped before any potential issues. I tried it from work on gigabit fibre. Still buffering issues :-/ Was also a mission trying to get it to work happily on Linux coz it uses Silverlight... Honestly Silverlight is more dead than flash is!!! I'd rate it about on par with VHS in the couple I've tried :( Where'd you see Orcon got in bed with Quickflix? I saw Slingshot did but not Orcon? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1267311 | 2012-03-29 20:36:00 | On this topic I am just wondering if similar services could be provided to NZders that's not "launched" in NZ per se. In otherwords, in the future could it be possible if we just bought a international subscription or pay per video and view it off the Internet. Ie., foreign language television. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1267312 | 2012-03-29 21:08:00 | Where'd you see Orcon got in bed with Quickflix? I saw Slingshot did but not Orcon? Orcon is my ISP, and they announced it in a e-mail to their customers this morning. The offer is free viewing for a month, then the cap is removed. On this topic I am just wondering if similar services could be provided to NZders that's not "launched" in NZ per se. In otherwords, in the future could it be possible if we just bought a international subscription or pay per video and view it off the Internet. Ie., foreign language television. Yeah, my thoughts. I just took out a 5 day free trial with iReel, I think they're UK based. No problems. Quality is excellent, and there is No Buffering issue (yay!). At least I know now it's not my PC, software, or connection that is at fault. Only problem is it's $34.95 a month, and I'm not sure if that's $US or $NZ. At that price, probably better to go to iSky. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1267313 | 2012-03-29 21:09:00 | Where'd you see Orcon got in bed with Quickflix? I saw Slingshot did but not Orcon?www.orcon.net.nz v_streaming_service Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 1267314 | 2012-03-29 21:16:00 | I think they're UK based. No problems. Only problem is it's $34.95 a month, and I'm not sure if that's $US or $NZ. At that price, probably better to go to iSky. That's not too bad for foreign channels. Maybe less so with UK. Sky provides some intl channels but the package cost about $80 per month. Doesn't come with the traditional Sky channels that cost more. Ranges from $105-150'ish depending how many of the channels you want. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1267315 | 2012-03-31 22:47:00 | The continuing saga ... I went to cancel my $34.95 membership with iReel today (within the 5 day free trial). They accepted, but immediately offered a $2.95 pcm continuing subscription cancelable at any time. Nothing to lose to either party I guess, so I accepted. The range of movies of course is B grade and C grade, there's never going to be any blockbusters. But we're heading into winter and if I choose to stay at home on a inclement Saturday evening rather than watch the current miserable free-to-air TV offerings, I'll have something to look at. As an example, TV1 last night early evening had 3 appalling back to back offerings - a whingeing Pom dinner competition, the Hotel Inspector, followed by some British comedian I'd never heard of until TV1 scraped the bottom of the barrel. :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1267316 | 2012-04-01 21:29:00 | Comparison time So I started with Johnny English, quality sucked terribly. So I tried Batman, nearly died it was so bad, but then again it's an old movie and I've not actually seen the 1989 original. Then I figured I'd try American Pie 3 - The Wedding, it's probably one of the more recent non-PPV movies they have. The first three are Quickflix, the 4th and final (Only one in complete fullscreen) is an incredibly old rip of the same movie I did back in the day (Came to around 750MB): imgur.com Still get buffer issues after about 5 minutes of watching it. Now if you do a traceroute to quickflix.co.nz I get skinnycow.quickflix.com.au and I'm routed over to Sydney so I thought it only fair I also post a speedtest: www.speedtest.net Considering the tiny selection there is currently (My wife had more DVDs before we met some 5-6 years ago, than Quickflix has on offer currently), I don't think I'll be keeping a subscription. Anybody elses thoughts on the quality of it? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1267317 | 2012-04-01 21:52:00 | Chill, what were you watching on? Sorry can't wiew your imgur at work! I am watching on PS3 . I have watched Driver (2011) half of eXistenZ and Flatliners, all full screen . Not a single buffer issue after the initial set up (wireless bb @ around 2Mb) . Quality was ok, good even, some Divx I have seen are better but Quickflix has less macroblocking(?), audio was too quiet . Overall better than TVNZ on demand . Selection of movies I think is good, for now, I don't own most of them but they could add a few newer ones . So far I'm going to keep it because of price and convenience . |
Hopper (14491) | ||
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