# Netflix problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 29, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-problems/580216 "2011-04-29T21:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-problems/580216/1 "2011-04-29T21:50:49Z")
Just on streaming movies. The picture is jerky, freezes. This just happens on some movies, not all. I’ve tried lowering the screen resolution to 800X, have 5 mbps download speed, 2 gig of ram, plenty of hard drive space. No problems with discs, you tube, or any other streaming, just Netflix. Using a Dell 1501 with a Dell 24" monitor. Also using DSL. 1.8 Gig AMD Athelon CPU Dual core, ATI Radion express 1150, can’t find how much video memory I have. Can anyone help me? ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-problems/580216/2 "2011-04-29T23:13:07Z")
The problem has been discussed at [Hacking NetFlix](http://www.hackingnetflix.com/) and perhaps at [Netflix Movie Fans](http://netflixcommunity.ning.com/). I seem to recall the the responses are mostly but not entirely negative. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-problems/580216/3 "2011-04-30T02:34:54Z")
Something I’ve noticed is that anything you stream that was originally shot on video (e.g. MST3K) now has a cheap, Filmlook™ about it. IOW they have neither the smoothness of 30fps nor the contrast of videotape. Really annoying because even though I know film is better than video (analog video anyway) these look decidedly worse. Not to mention just plain wrong (MST3K is supposed to look like videotape!!) I’m using a TiVo to stream Netflix and I have plenty of bandwidth (HD stuff plays fine). In fact I just now tried playing an episode on my PC and it too has that annoying, non-videotaped look about it. Is this how the MST3K DVDs look? Or is it Netflix? ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-problems/580216/4 "2011-04-30T17:56:55Z")
My MST video streaming looks good when I’m in the 1920 X 1080 video mode, but when it starts getting the “Slide Show” quirk I have to drop down to 800 X 600 mode and of course the video quality drops. (With no improvement!) **janeslogin** , thanks for the reply, and you’re correct, mostly negative. I’ll just have to keep trying different things I guess. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-problems/580216/5 "2011-05-01T05:42:26Z")
I am so glad I saw this because I’m having the same problem, but just one one of my computers. It just started up a few weeks ago. Unfortunately it’s the one most often used for Netflix streaming. It takes forever to load and then it’s choppy.