You’ll spend $40 on that. Spend an extra $10 and get a Roku, and never have to fiddle with cords and connecting your TV/computer again.
Since you live in Columbia, you better answer some basic questions.
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[li]Do you have a router?[/li][li]Do you have wifi?[/li][li]Does your TV have a HDMI connector?[/li][li]If you don’t have HDMI, what kind of connector does your TV have?[/li][/ol]
Router, yes.
WiFi, yes.
TV HDMI, yes.
Great. Just get a Roku LT. It is $50 in the states and they will throw in a HDMI cable for $10. I don’t know if Roku sells them in Columbia.
http://www.roku.com/roku-products
I could have made you a deal on my Roku box, but I already sold it.
I’m not sure how difficult it is to order stuff from the U.S. in Columbia.
Did you verify that you can watch Netflix by watching it on your PC? Apparently there are some tricks to watching Netflix overseas.
http://vpnfreedom.com/netflix/how-to-watch-netflix-outside-the-us/
Not difficult to order stuff from the USA, but shipping is not cheap.
Yes, we do watch Netflix on our computers…no problem.
I don’t think Rokus work anywhere but the US. Whatever you get will have to be the same format as whatever model TV you have. Most of North America uses NTSC format, is South America the same?
I’m not sure that computer has any video outputs at all. I googled HP TouchSmart 310 and it looks like an all-in-one desktop model. No tower, just a monitor with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Is that the one you have, robcaro? That looks like a really nice computer, by the way.
However, it doesn’t have a video out. This is the back of the monitor, and I see some USB ports and an ethernet port but no VGA, RCA, HDMI or S-video outputs. Can you confirm that, robcaro?
If that is the case, you can’t use your computer to watch Netflix on your TV. You’ll have to get a Netflix-capable streaming device such as a Blu-ray player or a Wii or other gaming system or something like a Roku (that works in Colombia).
Right…no VGA, RCA, HDMI or S-video outputs.
It looks like your only option for getting Netflix on your TV is to buy another electronic device, my friend!
Netflix streaming is $7.99/month. I don’t care how crappy the selection is, as long as you can find two movies a month (or 4 television episodes) to watch, it is a better deal than Amazon. The amount I stream through Netflix would cost me somewhere between $800 to $1,000 a month on Amazon.
But the more salient point is that there’s no need to choose just one. You can easily have both.
NTSC doesn’t matter. NTSC, PAL and SECAM are the old analog formats. HDMI is for digital signals. Here is an article about using Roku overseas. It looks it is the same stuff about getting a VPN connection to get a U.S. IP address. I learned a little about that trying to stream Doctor Who off the BBC web site.
http://vpnfreedom.com/roku/how-to-use-the-roku-box-outside-the-us/
Wow. I got a Vizio Tablet computer for $190 at Costco last week and it has a micro-HDMI connector and it has a Netflix App on the desktop. It is useless for me, because I dropped streaming when they started charging separately for it.
Nitpick:
Columbia is a university.
Colombia is a country.
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Another vote for Roku. We were early adopters and ended up with two of them (and gave a couple as gifts).
But then again, or our main television we’ve switched over to a (home-built) HTPC. We keep a Lenovo mini hand-held keyboard/mouse. The PC interface is much better than the Roku, speed is faster, and we can look up questions on IMDB if we get the inkling, watch any net-based stream, read XKCD when someone gets up for a minute, etc. If you can cable your HP and find a spot for the remote keyboard (it’s really small), you’ll be a bit happier.
First, this is entirely dependent on what you want to see from Netflix streaming. Second, the amount charged and what they are allowed to stream are not co-dependent variables.
Sorry. The trouble is I don’t tend to check the words that aren’t flagged as wrong.
Is that just an assertion on your part or do you have some documentation?
From what I’ve seen the streaming side only pays a few cents a movie to stream, so content acquisition is the major cost. The content providers don’t want to dump content that can generate major income on pay per view into the Netflix all you can watch buffet, so Netflix will pay through the nose for popular content. If Netflix raises their rates and/or gets a lot more subscribers, then they will have a much larger pot of money to acquire content.
:smack: I just learned a little as well! Ignorance fought; thanks!
Have you been hiding under a rock, or did you miss the fact that Netflix offered Starz $300 million plus to renew their deal (currently worth $30 million)? Netflix can offer the moon, but content providers would rather balkanize the online streaming market to get their share.
Holy cow, you’re not kidding.
As you can see from the site posted above, it is documented. Though, I guess you could say that by becoming cable-lite (and raising costs far more than the last round of increases), they could expand content.