Thread: Help me netflix it.

We broke down and got Netflix.
1) What should I queue?
2) How do people get what's on their computer to show up on their TV?
What kind of cords, etc, do I need?

We are expecting a long hibernation this winter, so we want to have some good movies to accompany it.

We loved renting TV series when we did Blockbuster online a few years ago--any recommendations?
Any Jane Austen movie recommendations?
Comedies, etc.

Thanks!!

Cords and cables all depend on your PC/TV. Whatcha got?

I recommend you queue Chaplin films:

City Lights
The Kid
The Great Dictator
The Circus
Modern Times

You could also try some of Werner Herzog's documentaries, if you wanna try some artsy stuff:

The White Diamond
Wheel of Time
Encounters at the End of the World
Land of Silence and Darkness

You might also try these films:

Brief Encounter
Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (a Dutch film, very suspenseful and possibly scary, though no gore, language, etc.)
Nights of Cabiria (deals with a prostitute but no offensive material in the film, so far as I can remember)

Originally Posted by he beholds

1) What should I queue?

What do you like? NetFlix has pretty much everything you could get on DVD except pornographic material.

I've started a quest (of sorts) to watch the AFI Top 100 films (from the 1998 list). I've already seen Casablanca, Citizen Kane and the Godfather.

Originally Posted by gene_mingo

Cords and cables all depend on your PC/TV. Whatcha got?

PC is a couple years old...it obviously has USB slots. I have no idea what else.

TV is old, not HD. It has the three color prong connector holes.

Obviously, this language is not technical and shows my cluelessness : )