Re: Netflix Streaming Only Plans?!
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But how long does it take for the movie to start playing in Media Center (or the PC in general)? Mine has to go through the testing connection, which usually doesn’t take that long, and then it has to go through the buffering, which does take several minutes. The PS3 doesn’t seem to do any buffering at the beginning because when I push play, it says “retrieving”, and it only takes a few seconds before I’m actually watching the movie.
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When the testing connection screen pops up the progress bar fills up in about a second, then a I get a blue circle made of dots that grow as the movie buffers for about 3 seconds and the movie starts playing. It takes about as much time to start as it takes to load an ISO from my WHS and start playing it.
I am on Comcast 10Mbps cable. Now six months ago I would have said it was a slower experience but that was mainly an issue with the title browser. But it is all very acceptable now.