Official List of Netflix Watch Instantly Titles w/5.1 Sound - Page 2

Both "Dragon Tatoo" and "Fire" are in Swedish with hard Engish subtitles when I play them. The "audio and subtitles" menu claims that "Fire" is in English, but it lies.

Added, along with:

• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (doc) (2010)
• I'm Still Here (doc) (2010)
• Countdown to Zero (doc) (2009)
• The Extra Man (2010)
• Peepli Live (2010)
• The Trotsky (2009)
• We Are Family (2010)
• Tapped (doc) (2009)
• Soul Kitchen (2009)
• The Sicilian Girl (2009)
• Let It Rain (2008)

...which I found while browsing through the "newly added" list (curiously, didn't see "Wild Wild West" there).

Added. I know that I saw them before, yet somehow failed to put them in--oh well . Thanks!

I broke strict alphabetical ordering to put "The Eleventh Year" at the end .

"/SD" means 480p res and "/HD" means that the resolution is a minimum of 720p; the "Low", "Medium", "High" and "XHigh" just roughly indicate which encoding at that. We assume that 1080p is "XHigh", but we know that indicator will appear for 720p encodings as well so it can't be used to tell when you're getting 1080p.

That smooth, seamless transition from higher to lower bit rate encodings and vice versa as available bandwidth on your connection fluctuates is very new technology and something only recently added. Previously the player would pause and re-buffer if the bandwidth dropped and would not switch back to a higher bit rate, higher PQ encoding when bandwidth increased.

I not sure if any of the other platforms can display that. I know that the PS3, Xbox and PC players cannot. They no doubt implemented it for TiVo because TiVo users expect to be able to do that while watching live and recorded television.

As you say, it's only something that you'd do on a whim; you know what you're watching in the Netflix player because you explicitly asked to watch it (true of a TiVo recording as well, but it's there for UI consistency). If you need the details you can always pop out and look at them and restart the stream where you left off.

Okay--you're officially banned from this thread .

Added, corrected.

I was kind of wondering what he was talking about myself . I watched Dragon Tatoo recently (paid to rent it from Vudu to see it in HD). It is not in the list, though Played with Fire is.

Added.

Am I sure about what, specifically? I'm completely certain about the main points that you quoted: X-High is seen when you're playing titles which are known not to have 1080p encodings and when you're playing titles which (I believe) have 1080p encodings. I'm also certain that the PS3 is now using adaptive bit rate streaming tech (aka "smooth streaming"). All of the old players which don't have ABR streaming will pause for varying amounts of time when bit rate on your connection drops below the speed required for the currently selected encoding to refill their buffers with a lower bit rate encoding. Also, the non-ABR streaming players all take 10+ seconds to start up an HD encoding (if your connection has the required bandwidth); playback of a stream on the PS3 generally starts in 3 seconds after you "press PLAY".

When I talk about "available bandwidth" I mean the bandwidth currently available on your connection to Netflix' servers, which may be only a fraction of the your rated network service speed and which can fluctuate as conditions along the path to the server change.

As for 1080p and 5.1 surround only being available on the PS3, see this bit posted on Netflix' blog back in October: Only the PS3 has encodings with digital surround sound; a theory held by myself and others is that those streams with 5.1 also have 1080p encodings.