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5 tips every Netflix user should know (CNET Top 5)

2016-03-07
hey everybody and welcome to top five I'm Aya's Akhtar and today we're counting down that top five tips every Netflix users should know that number five has more than one profile even if your Netflix subscription serves one solitary person think about having a profile for your different moods I have one profile which is kind of like aspirational me it's got documentaries and critically acclaimed movies highly rated so I get suggestions for awesome things then I have another profile which rates terrible movies quite highly because sometimes I like watching movies that are so bad they're good I like having these separated so Netflix suggestions are suited to my mood number four remove content from your viewing history maybe you watch a lousy movie in your good profile or the other way around maybe you're ashamed that you watch surf nato 3 and it's forever influencing your suggestions you can erase those mistakes go to your account on Netflix calm and then click viewing activity in the my profile section now behold your viewing history hit the X on the right and say goodbye to that mistake number three you get to know Netflix roulette dotnet sometimes you just want to put something on your TV or phone or do not sure what you want enter the Netflix roulette got net it's a simple site that will suggest something to watch there are advanced options they let you narrow down what results you get back so when I must inevitably watch a family-friendly movie with my young son I can ask Netflix roulette to give me children and family movies that are 4 to 5 stars it looks like we're watching 2012's Radio rebel oh there's also an Android app called flicks roulette at number 2 and enhancer Netflix is great but picking out something can be really difficult check out an enhancer for Google Chrome this extension brings some valuable information to Netflix when you hover over a title you'll see ratings from IMDB and a rottentomatoes.com scores from both critics and the audience there's even the option to watch a trailer of the title in case you don't know if you're committed yet now these features don't appear on every title but they do help at number one know your genre you ever noticed a URL for certain genres on Netflix like drama blues at Netflix calm slash browse slash genre slash 57 63-57 63 is Netflix is code for the did you know that someone over at what's on Netflix comms compiled a huge list of genre codes you do now so if you wanted an easy way to find anime sci-fi change that number of 2729 or if it's a prime TV shows use the code 26 146 here's the shortened link to all of those codes for more top fives like this check out top 5 calm we'll see you next time
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