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#1266405 24-Mar-2015 08:28

mrtoken: So why is everyone changing from US billing?

Did you guys not have the locked in price when they changed it about a year ago?

In case anyone isn't sure, that price is only fixed for 2 years (starting mid-2014) so will increase next year.

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#1266407 24-Mar-2015 08:31

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mrtoken: So why is everyone changing from US billing?

Did you guys not have the locked in price when they changed it about a year ago?

In case anyone isn't sure, that price is only fixed for 2 years (starting mid-2014) so will increase next year.

It will be at that stage I swap to NZ :P

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#1266412 24-Mar-2015 08:46

Noodles: Signed up, but it's not loading on my ATV2 yet. The icon is there, but it says it's not available. Maybe it's on AU time

Just as a matter of interest. I assume if i sign up in NZ I can still use the US service with as VPN??

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#1266421 24-Mar-2015 09:00

Really stoked that its finally available, just so it shakes up the market and drives more innovation in this space. I will keep my grandfather US plan (@ $7.99 USD) because of the catalog but will watch with interest as the NZ service grows over the next 12 months. One day I might switch to NZ but the only benefit would be to save a few dollars.

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#1266436 24-Mar-2015 09:14

old3eyes:
Noodles: Signed up, but it's not loading on my ATV2 yet. The icon is there, but it says it's not available. Maybe it's on AU time

Just as a matter of interest. I assume if i sign up in NZ I can still use the US service with as VPN??

Yes, or with a DNS redirect.

MileHighKiwi: Really stoked that its finally available, just so it shakes up the market and drives more innovation in this space. I will keep my grandfather US plan (@ $7.99 USD) because of the catalog but will watch with interest as the NZ service grows over the next 12 months. One day I might switch to NZ but the only benefit would be to save a few dollars.

The catalog is in no way influenced by where you are billed. It depends entirely on where you are accessing the service from (or where your DNS/VPN service makes it look like you are).

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#1266442 24-Mar-2015 09:23

I just signed up and was playing around...

Using the various hidden menus, I can see some info about the audio/video bitrates and the CDNs...

For Orphan Black:

(Shift-Ctrl-Alt-S):
Audio Bitrate: 64, 96
Video Bitrate: 235, 375, 560, 750, 1050, 1750, 2350 and 3000
CDNs: c033.syd001.ix.nflxvideo.net, c203.syd001.ix.ntflxvideo.net, c010.lax004.ix.nflxvideo.net, akamaitp, akamaiso

Stats (Shift-Ctrl-Alt-D):
Version: 2.0000.108.011
Esn: NFCDCH-02-AJ0W7M82LHAEDTVKJ99F7VNXQLDYUH
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101 Safari/537.36

MovieId: 70277601
TrackingId: 13462055
Xid: 14271415365135 (14271415365135)
Position: 263.175
Duration: 2692.778
Volume: 100%

Player state: Normal
Buffering state: Normal, ETA:0.000
Rendering state: Playing

Playing bitrate (a/v): 96 / 3000 ( res: 1280x720, par: 1x1 )
Buffering bitrate (a/v): 96 / 3000
Buffer size in Bytes (a/v): 2818974 / 78899494
Buffer size in Bytes: 85062177
Buffer size in Seconds (a/v): 232.867 / 225.313
Will Rebuffer: false
Current CDN: c033.syd001.ix.nflxvideo.net, Id: 36408

Audio Track: en, Id: 656e7c322e307c5072696d6172797c747275657c6e6f6e657c756e6b6e6f776e7c756e6b6e6f776e7c417564696f7c756e6b6e6f776e7c7c, Channels: 2.0, Codec: mp4a
Video Track: Codec: encv
Timed Text Track: none

Framerate: 23.976
Current Dropped Frames: 0
Total Frames: 6316
Total Dropped Frames: 0
Total Corrupted Frames: undefined
Total Frame Delay: undefined
Main Thread stall/sec: DISABLED
VideoDiag: readyState=4,currentTime=263.415,videoBuffered=16.016,videoRanges=256.256-272.271999,audioBuffered=32.000,audioRanges=240.042666-272.042666

Latency: 0 ms
Throughput: 30898 KBPS
Bandwidth (normalized): 30898 KBPS
Max Sustainable Video Bitrate: 30802 KBPS

DFR: {"480":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"720":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]}

It went pretty quickly up to Playing bitrate (a/v): 96 / 3000 ( res: 1280x720, par: 1x1 ).

It's interesting, but the CDN c033.syd001.ix.nflxvideo.net (which you would think is in Sydney) currently resolves to:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ipv4_1.lagg0.c033.syd001.ix.nflxvideo.net
Address: 23.246.29.142
Aliases: c033.syd001.ix.nflxvideo.net

Which is in....Wilmington, USA.

I don't understand the magic of CDNs, but it appears to be nice and fast...

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#1267097 24-Mar-2015 19:36

I have to say I am thrilled with the NZ Netflix, the content is better (for me) than the current US one.

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#1267101 24-Mar-2015 19:57

I can't even get 720p running via chrome browser (30Mbps fibre) and chrome doesn't 5.1 audio??

Runs/looks great on PS4 though. 1080p with 5.1 audio.

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#1267259 25-Mar-2015 07:55

ALTRON: I can't even get 720p running via chrome browser (30Mbps fibre) and chrome doesn't 5.1 audio??

Runs/looks great on PS4 though. 1080p with 5.1 audio.

I'm the opposite, looks great on chrome to ipad but looks like SD quality via PS4 to a Panasonic VT50. Tried changing playback settings, ringing the 0800 number etc - looks poor.

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#1267348 25-Mar-2015 10:11

Could I sign up for Kiwi Netflix then using that same login & payment to go through Unotelly to watch US or Euro Netflix or even Aussie Netflix if they have different content?

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#1267353 25-Mar-2015 10:16

FineWine: Could I sign up for Kiwi Netflix then using that same login & payment to go through Unotelly to watch US or Euro Netflix or even Aussie Netflix if they have different content?

Yes, you can. You just need to switch the zone in your Unotelly control panel to access different a region's content. A Netflix account gives you global access, your DNS or VPN settings dictate which library Netflix displays at any one time.

Edited for punctuation fail.

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#1267388 25-Mar-2015 10:42

littleheaven:
FineWine: Could I sign up for Kiwi Netflix then using that same login & payment to go through Unotelly to watch US or Euro Netflix or even Aussie Netflix if they have different content?

Yes, you can. You just need to switch the zone in your Unotelly control panel to access different a region's content. A Netflix account gives you global access, your DNS or VPN settings dictate which library Netflix displays at any one time.

Edited for punctuation fail.

Great thanks

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#1267405 25-Mar-2015 11:03

Or if you don't already have a smartDNS/VPN service I saw this one posted on ozbargain with a 12 month sub for $12. Seems way cheaper than others like unotelly but is a bit more restricted and doesn't have NZ added as a region yet

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/187572

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#1267409 25-Mar-2015 11:10

Playback quality seems to be pretty good using IE on my 10mbits ADSL connection. I'll have to try the trick mentioned above to get the detailed stats to see what size content I'm getting.

Even on my iPhone on Vodafone's 3G network during peak traffic hours plays very smoothly at high quality. I've played a few TV shows on the bus/train to/from work. Bye bye data but my plan goes to 7.5GB next month so it'll be a good opportunity to test how much data I will use.

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#1267429 25-Mar-2015 11:52

P1n3apqlExpr3ss: Or if you don't already have a smartDNS/VPN service I saw this one posted on ozbargain with a 12 month sub for $12. Seems way cheaper than others like unotelly but is a bit more restricted and doesn't have NZ added as a region yet

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/187572

dns4me.net have NZ and AU and works out at $2 per month for up-to 3 separate IP addresses, is a bargin.

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