Netflix on TiVo(Confirmed) - Page 4

meekboy · 13-09-2013, 18:57

I have been watching breaking bad and my tv(sony bravia) switches to 1080p 24 frames, I haven't checked anything else just yet.

passingbat · 13-09-2013, 19:08

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Originally Posted by meekboy

I have been watching breaking bad and my tv(sony bravia) switches to 1080p 24 frames, I haven't checked anything else just yet.

That makes sense as that is a US TV show so will be in 24fps.

I assume this is the version of the Netflix app we have got and it does switch frame rates according to the content it receives.

http://www.techofthehub.com/2012/05/...on-review.html

meekboy · 13-09-2013, 19:25

thats the US version by the looks of it the UK tivo version looks more like the website version, it runs really smooth, a lot smoother than the tivo youtube app

passingbat · 13-09-2013, 19:38

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Originally Posted by meekboy

thats the US version by the looks of it the UK tivo version looks more like the website version, it runs really smooth, a lot smoother than the tivo youtube app

Yes that is the US version, but I would have thought the VM would have been similar, as that is the one added to the US Tivo Premier, which the VM Tivo is based on. I guess they must have modified it. But by the sounds of it, they have ported over the ability to play the frame rate that the content is in.

Wish I was in the trial area.

meekboy · 13-09-2013, 19:45

Not too long to wait to wait! I was in the TiVo firmware trial and they left us on the trial server after they had announced netflix

spiderplant · 13-09-2013, 20:18

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Originally Posted by passingbat

I know a lot of US Netflix, both film and TV shows, are 24fps, but not sure what most of the UK content is. (I think Spiderplant said somewhere that it varies?)

They have a right mish-mash of rates. It's at least all these: 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30.

passingbat · 13-09-2013, 20:42

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

They have a right mish-mash of rates. It's at least all these: 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30.

I think that's because Netflix can't modify or pick and choose the content format that they get from the providers.

I read an article on the Netflix technical blog about it some time ago. And on another forum today, someone asked why, say, Danish subtitles are optional on some US films/shows on Denmark Netflix and not on others. It's down to the version they are able to get the rights to and the conditions that come with those rights. It's a bit of a hotch potch and something Netflix are working towards solving.