Netflix app coming to more Nokia phones, such as the N8?

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I just bought a Nokia N8, the amazon deal was too good to pass up. Although Im having second thoughts about it, but the phone does have many features that I like. The E71 phone is the best phone I ever had, so the N8 should blow it away. I realize there is a lack of apps compared to other competitors OS. I dont really care too much about apps anyway, but it would be great if the N8 had Netflix. Any idea if this is a possibility in the near future? I know the iphone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and some past Nokia phones have it, but could Nokia be bringing it to the N8? Or should I assume since the N8 is the last Symbian device, they will abandon the N8 since they are moving to a new OS in the near future? Oh yeah is there any chance the N8 will be upgradeable to the meego OS? Thanks for any responses.
 
The "Netflix" app that you find for Symbian (incl. N8) is just a queue manager (with previews).

The best hope would be if they were to leverage the MS Silverlight client for Symbian, but seen as even Panasonic have troubles getting Netflix to support their pre-2010 Internet enabled BlueRay players (DRM issues), I doubt that this will happen anytime soon.
 
The N8 will be getting some updates but it will never be able to be upgraded to MeeGo. In addition, it's pretty unlikely that Netflix will bother to make an app for symbian at this point other than the queue manager, as far as I know android still hasn't gotten theirs yet either.
 
I don't think there's enough Nokia platform penetration in the US for you to expect a Netflix app. Remember, Netflix is for all intents and purposes US only. Netflix is also available in Canada in a more limited and crappier capacity, but Nokia penetration in Canada is also too low to warrant an app.

The OS issue is not one that would preclude them from making an app since doing it in Qt would allow them to deploy to Symbian and MeeGo devices without a great deal of extra work. The issue is really that there aren't many customers who would need it because so few people use Nokia platforms in North America.
 
Thats kinda disappointing, but not surprsing. It would of been nice to have netflix, especially with the HDMI output. All the hotels ive stayed in recently had HD TVs with HDMI. Well anyway Im still looking forward to getting this phone.

I have a couple other questions.

1) Are there any websites I can buy movies to download to it? Something similar to itunes, but without the DRM. The OVI store doesnt have movies like itunes right?

2) Whats the best way to convert a DVD, to watch on the N8? Are there any free programs that work well? I would like to put a few movies, considering the N8 has up to 48GB memory capacity.
 
Short answer, you basically need software like Cucusoft or Tubebite to convert video for something like the N8. You can download movies from Amazon, but since they're DRM'd, you have to strip it of the DRM and down convert it for your phone.

So no, there isn't really a direct sync movie service for anything other than iPhones and WP7, which have the Zune Marketplace.
 
I use AnyDVD HD to rip my discs and then Nero Recode for DVDs or RipBot264 for Blu-Ray. A free alternative for DVDs would be DVDshrink or something like that - there are numerous options. A free replacement for AnyDVD HD? I don't know but Any DVD is absolutely amazing.

I have recently ripped some of my Blu-Ray movies and transcoded them down to 1280x720 using RipBot for travel and you can get a wonderful quality version of the main movie in under 2GB for a typical film. You can get it down to 1GB if you go down to 360x480 just for watching on your N8.

It's a great travel companion, just don't forget to bring an HDMI cable in addition to your adapter. :)
 
A bit OT: I think this gets to be a major problem for Nokia, once they decide to play in the tablet market with Meego. I can't see putting out a media consumption device without much major third party media company support, and having it sell to more than 12 people. Even Samsung had to line up deals with the publishers to get magazine support for their Galaxy Tab.
 
So the X7 is the AT&T variant? Interesting.

Also, the problem with that is, nobody really likes using the carrier media services. I avoided them with AT&T and I avoided Verizon's V-Cast crap-ware when I had them.
 
I'm not sure how I feel yet about every manufacturer making their own content stores, but I don't doubt that nokia has at the very least been looking into bringing their music/movie servies over here. There just isn't enough interest in their phones to justify the effort at this point, but one has to happen before the other either way.

It doesn't really bother me because I need music in better quality, but a movie service with decent prices would be used and abused by my friends and I especially when phones are beginning to have HDMI ports.

Also yeah jimmy, the X7 has been in testing with at&t for a good portion of the year...hopefully that prevents it from having a long announcement to release date period.
 
I would say so.

Also, although I usually disagree with Jimmy on most things, I think he's spot on here with regards to Nokia's media/content delivery issues and the fact that carrier solutions are highly undesirable from a user perspective. That and they would do little to sell Nokia devices at large since they are carrier-specific. They tie you to a carrier as opposed to Nokia, which is unfavorable for Nokia and likely to be much more distasteful to customers.

I cannot believe that Nokia has been working on music and media deals for at least 8 years that I know of and this is where they are in the process. They should have a full-on global mechanism for music delivery at the very least and video should be well on the way. Instead we have an embarrassing patchwork of music delivery for mostly third world countries where music sales are a write-off and record labels figure anything is better than nothing. As for video... We have chirping crickets and the POS National Geographic streaming crapp on S^3 devices.
 
It's not as much of a big deal, or less so, on phones.

I only brought it up, because every Nokia news piece from the company hints that they're planning on making a big tablet push with Meego, in, what, less than a year?

And my question was, how do you produce a tablet, a media consumption device basically....without content? I haven't read about Nokia making big blockbuster media deals, has anyone else? A meeting with all the big studios for streaming/licensing deals? A sit-down with the New York and London based publishers, like Jobs did prior to the iPad's roll-out?

The best case scenario is that it winds up like the Joojoo pad: a slate with a browser and that's about it. It'll have a few niche sales and quietly disappear, like Nokia's previous Maemo tablets, the N700 and 800 series.
 
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