Did Netflix just start limiting users to one movie stream at a time? No

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Over the last couple of days, some Netflix users have reported getting error messages whenever they tried to view Watch Instantly video streams on two different devices at the same time. While some reports have suggested that along with instituting a price hike September 1st it also decided to start cracking down on multiple streams, it turns out there’s a simpler explanation. According to spokesman Steve Swasey, the policy is still the same and no Netflix member is limited to less than two streams at once. The messages people are seeing indicating otherwise? An “error” the company is correcting. Glitches suck, and are becoming a bit too routine on the service for our liking – Hacking Netflix reports another blip caused S1 of *Star Trek: TNG *to disappear temporarily over the weekend – but the rumors of a change in policy just aren’t true, so keep that subscription canceling finger holstered for now.Did Netflix just start limiting users to one movie stream at a time? No originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Re: Did Netflix just start limiting users to one movie stream at a time? No

I usually can stream my “stream only, no dvd” plan on 2 devices at a time. Once I was getting an error message on the second device, I called Netflix and the guy said that technically every 7.99 gives you one stream. So if you have a stream + 1 dvd plan, you can get 2 simultaneous streams, stream + w dvd plan gives you 3 simultaneous streams.

I dont know how true that was but error got fixed and I still get minimum of 2 streams at the same time. Never tried 3 streams.

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Re: Did Netflix just start limiting users to one movie stream at a time? No

I don’t know about the States but up here we only have one option available which is streaming. For the longest time I wasn’t able to install the android app because it’s only available for U.S. market but recently on a trip to the States I was able to install it form the Android Market and have been able to login using my Canadian membership and it works up here so they don’t seem to be filtering connection based on location.

I am also able to start multiple (at least two streams) and it works out well.