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Review: Netflix Browse Instant Movies List

As I had previously blogged, Netflix.com offers unlimited streaming movies and TV shows as part of their basic movie-in-the mail plan.

For those of you who want more details about this, you’ve come to the right place.

For as low a $9.50 per month, you can get the one-DVD- out-at-once option. If you’re a DVD freak, you can have more than one disc out, but I have the lowest possible plan to get the unlimited streaming video. This means you can get around 4-5 movies in the mail depending on your movie watching schedule.

The bonus, which Blockbuster.com does not offer, are 7,000 streaming videos you can watch at anytime, which does count against the with DVDs you get in the mail.

Here are the catches:

1) Internet Explorer with XP Service Pack 2 or Vista only.
2) You have to download a file to install this on-demand service, and reboot your computer.
3) Browse Instant ™ is in a separate tab section than the DVDs. Be sure you don’t order a DVD if you can watch it online. A blue PLAY button appears if you can watch online.
4) The search engine is not really a search engine (and you can’t display a master list), and it takes a long time to browse through the results (I took the time FOR YOU for this review).
5) The stream is supposed to remember where you left off, which is great. And that works. The problem is that if you want to restart to rewatch, and it has to reload.
6) It’s hard to find individual episode lists after you watch an entire season of a TV show.
7) Most of the 7,000 movies and TV shows SUCK, but that is a general rule anyway, right?
You can get a 2 week trial for free, and watch as many as these shows for FREE, including a DVD or two, but you need to sign up with a credit or debit card.
9) Quality and streaming naturally depends on your Internet connection.

Those are minor complaints, considering the content is at no additional charge. The quality is great, and there is a wide selection.

Here are Damian Hospital’s picks for quality content, as I realize people have varied tastes:

TV shows or Cartoons
The Office Seasons 1-3
Dilbert Season 1
The Tick
Heroes Seasons 1-2
Superman/Doomsday
Justice League: The New Frontier
Weeds: Seasons 1-2
The Incredible Hulk Season 1, 3
various Ghost in the Shell movies
Voltron Seasons 1-5, yeah you read that right
Pokemon: The First Movie
Street Fighter II: Cartoon movies and anime TV series
Hellboy Animated
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Pink Panther cartoons
Sonic Underground
Charlie Brown movies
A bunch of sweet Japanese cartoons
The Office (Britain- all seasons)
Quantum Leap (all seasons with a few episode gaps)
Lots of Law & Order
Dead Like Me
Sliders: All Seasons, some episode gaps
Magnum P.I.
Xena: Warrior Princess
Hercules
Columbo
SeaQuest DSV
Earth 2
Saved by the Bell
Airline
American Gothic
A-Team
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Knight Rider
Gimme a Break!
tons of Doctor Who series
Adam-12
NewsRadio
Jeremiah
The Outerlimits
Miami Vice
Airwolf
The Munsters
Amazing Stories
The League of Gentleman (Britain)
Battlestar Galactica (old)
Buck Rogers

Various Discovery/History Channel/A&E/PBS specials: history, biographies, animals, documentaries, science, space, dinosaurs, religion, etc. This is happens to be the most enjoyable for me, since the content is so deep.

Dramas
The Unforgiven
Empire of the Sun
Legends of the Fall
Malcolm X
Donnie Brasco
Eyes Wide Shut
My Girl
Glory
Once Upon a Time in America
Kramer vs Kramer
Boyz N the Hood
Chariots of Fire
Amadeus
Sense and Sensibility
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Courage Under Fire
The People vs Larry Flint
The Natural
Seven Years in Tibet
New Jack City
The Basketball Diaries
JFK
Steel Magnolias
Cobb
Driving Miss Daisy
The Bridge on the River Kwai
A Streetcar Named Desire
The King and I
The Three Faces of Eve
The Exorcist
The Dirty Dozen
Jerry Maguire
Sleepless in Seattle

Action/Adventure/Horror
The Devil’s Own
Once Upon a Time in China
Air Force One
The Mask of Zorro
Escape from New York
Wyatt Earp
Speed
Best of the Best
Iron Eagle
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Shaka Zulu
Young Guns II
Under Siege
Eraser
The Never Ending Story 1 and 2
The Karate Kid Trilogy
Jumanji
Enter the Dragon
Dirty Harry
Superfly
Shaft
The Shining
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Hellraiser
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Comedy
Singin’ in the Rain
The Seven Year Itch
Much Ado About Nothing
Tootsie
Ghostbusters 1-2
Little Shop of Horrors
Short Circuit
Beetlejuice
A League of Their Own
Groundhog Day
Risky Business
Look Who’s Talking
Team America: World Police
Mannequin
Grumpy Old Men
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Gods Must Be Crazy 2
Dave Chappelle: For What It’s Worth
Addams Family Values
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
Down Periscope
Naked Gun 33 1/3
Oh God!
The Freshman
The Man with Two Brains
Joe’s Apartment
Roxanne
Arthur
Boomerang

Charlton Heston
Soylent Green
Planet of the Apes
Ben Hur
Omega Man

Sci-Fi
2001
2010
The Day the Earth Stood Still
THX 1138
Son of Godzilla
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Gattaca
Men in Black
Hook
Heavy Metal
The Road Warrior
Logan’s Run
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Forbidden Planet
Sphere
Clash of the Titans

Special Interest
Yoga and exercise
Cal Ripken, Jr
Wrestling Gold (before they were stars)

UPDATED NETFLIX BROWSE INSTANT MOVIE LIST (DEC 4, 2009):
Bill Cosby: Himself
The Terminator
Recent Godzilla movies
Gladiator
Gorillas in the Mist
Seven Pounds
Bolt
Grey’s Anatomy
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
The Matrix Revolutions
Pearl Harbor
Bad Boys

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