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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to take a look at the netflix streaming movie application for windows phone 7 let's get to it okay so this is exclusively a straining application you can't actually manage your cue from it and down here I've got an icon and it's a free application of course you can pin it to your Start screen it's not a live tile it's just a simple application launcher so let's go into netflix and see what it's like to stream a movie from the netflix catalog it takes sometimes about 10 seconds to get started i've already logged in so i don't have to do that again and again if you have a netflix plan you can just plug in your username and password you have streaming built into your account as you probably know already and so it will work on this device so from here we can flick through a different few different areas it's got the Metro interface this is one of the first Windows Phone 7 apps we saw the beginning of this year it's been around it's been floating around for a while and now it's finally available on the on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace so here we've got a variety of featured movies we can swipe to the right to dial down by television or action an adventure different genres we can search here and it's an instant search so as you type it will actually bring up results so if I typed on wait there are some results if we sweat to the right again or tap to the right we get our instant queue so you can add a variety of movies there to watch and back to home so let's look at a movie and see what the quality is like on the streaming application it's actually go back to John MERS for a second and dial into action and adventure okay let's see if there's anything interesting here just flicking through you should be able to do this in a landscape view as well and there we go ok there's x-men let's take a look at how that looks streaming on the Windows Phone 7 device here this is the Samsung Focus says connecting to the netflix movie server downloading movie in from zoom in on the screen so you get a better sense for the quality here right now over Wi-Fi by the way so here is a look at the movie let's fast forward a little bit and when you fast forward do you actually get a live preview of what's happening in the area you're fast forwarding to so it's buffering a little bit buffering happens very fast and here it is picture quality is very impressive just trying to get to a high action scene here so you can see what the framerate is like what a lot of stuff is happening so very good quality this is definitely something you would want to take with you on a subway or on a plane and be able to watch this content although you're going to need Wi-Fi wherever you are or 3G connection because it is streaming from the internet and it's not storing the movies on your device so overall the netflix application for windows phone 7 is quite well done it's exclusively a streaming application so don't expect to manage your queue but you want to watch some movies on the go it's a great app great app to have thanks for watching and please thumbs up this video if you liked it that's it for now