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Netflix streaming won't show more than 100 episodes per title

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‎04-16-2011 12:06 PM

So I'm sure most of you by now have seen that Netflix has consolidated their TV series listings.  It used to be that each season of a TV series was its own individual title (so, for example, adding the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to your instant queue would eat up 7 slots).  Now, they've combined them, so each TV series is its own title, with each season contained within (so now, adding Buffy the Vampire Slayer takes up only 1 slot, with all 7 seasons contained within).

 

There's a problem with this, though.  I'm not sure if this has been a FAT+ problem for a while and only just became apparent with this consolidation, or if this is a new issue caused by the consolidation, but my FAT+ simply refuses to show any more than the first 100 episodes of a series.

 

This isn't a problem for series that have less than 100 episodes (obviously), like Battlestar Galactica or Futurama.  It becomes a major issue when you're trying to watch the entirety of a show that has more than 100 episodes.

 

This means that, on my FAT+, it's now impossible to watch the entirety of (from my own queue): Angel, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Family Guy, The Kids in the Hall, King of the Hill, Lost, MacGyver, Married... with Children, Mission: Impossible, Monk, The Office (U.S.), Roseanne, Rugrats, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, South Park, That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Top Gear (U.K.), The Twilight Zone, and The X-Files.

 

And I can 100% confirm that for each of these shows, Netflix DOES have the episodes that don't show up on the FAT+ available for instant streaming.

 

So, is there any chance of a firmware update to fix this, or is it Netflix's issue?

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‎04-22-2011 09:34 PM - edited ‎04-22-2011 09:36 PM

 

ChainsawAsh wrote:

 

And I can 100% confirm that for each of these shows, Netflix DOES have the episodes that don't show up on the FAT+ available for instant streaming.

 

So, is there any chance of a firmware update to fix this, or is it Netflix's issue?

 

I just confirmed this on my FAT+ with 2.23 firmware too. Since Netflix was a major reason I chose the FAT+ over other products, I hope Seagate will release a firmware fix. Streaming "most" of a season doesn't really cut it.

 

I would also suggest giving Netflix a call and give them some feedback on this recent change. Adding single seasons used to work fine, so maybe they can make single season vs. all episodes a display option tied to your account.

 

Between Seagate and Netflix techs I hope they can work out a fix for this.

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‎04-23-2011 08:18 PM - edited ‎04-23-2011 08:19 PM

Well, I heard about a workaround and tested it, but it's not perfect.

 

If you go to your browser and play an episode >100, then the FAT+ seems to let you resume that episode and play some of the following episodes.

 

The problem is once you do that, the episodes are incorrectly renumbered to fit in a list of 100 and some earlier episodes are removed from the FAT+ episode listing.

 

I also have another Netflix player and once I got a later >100 episode to resume playing on the FAT+, the series would NOT play at all on the other player. No episodes listed, just an error. To fix it, I had to go back to the FAT+ and play a much earlier episode (although still incorrectly numbered on the FAT+).

 

Seagate and Netflix definitely need to talk about a fix or reversion to the old system of single season listings.

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‎06-05-2011 06:39 PM

Bump. Seagate please review this topic and fix the 100 episodes issue.... Very fustrating having paid so much money on false advertising.

 

 

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‎07-01-2011 10:37 PM

I wonder if Numb3rs has over 100 episodes or if the killed it at exactly 100 as it is all I can see also. I normally havent watched alot of TV series but was starting to I am curious if this issue has been fixed or anything??

I see no new info on this so I thought I would ask

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‎07-13-2011 04:14 AM

I'm having the same issue.

 

Right now I can't watch all of Star Trek: The Next Generation because of the 100 episode limit. The same goes with SpongeBob Square Pants. Both stop at episode 100 for me.

 

I don't know if the issue is with netflix or with seagate's fat+.   If I have time I'll look into it later today with a proxy server and see if I can decipher the playlist data that netflix sends back.

 

 

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‎07-14-2011 06:40 PM

Still no luck with episodes over 100. I have friends who want a device like mine but I can't reccomend them to get a seagate FAT+.

 

I looked at the networked traffic but only some of it was unencrypted. The unencrypted part was this:

 

GET /support/software/theaterappliance.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: www.seagate.com
User-Agent: RealtekVOD/1.0.0 (Linux)
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: Keep-Alive
TE: trailers
Accept: */*
transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming
contentFeatures.dlna.org: 1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Sun-ONE-Web-Server/6.1
Content-Length: 3267
Content-Type: text/xml
Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:55:21 GMT
ETag: "cc3-4d532969"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:36:54 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>script-version</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
	<key>Upgrade</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>product</key>
			<string>Theater Appliance</string>
			<key>old-Version</key>
			<string>01.16.262072E</string>
			<key>new-Version</key>
			<string>01.55.270595E</string>
			<key>Region</key>
			<string>EMEA</string>
			<key>SWURL</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/EMEA/101/220/v15/install.img</string>
			<key>SWReleaseNotes</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/EMEA/101/220/v15/sm_release_notes_emea.txt</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>product</key>
			<string>Theater Appliance</string>
			<key>old-Version</key>
			<string>02.04.299220E</string>
			<key>new-Version</key>
			<string>02.23.348044E</string>
			<key>Region</key>
			<string>EMEA</string>
			<key>SWURL</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/EMEA/101/223/v20/install.img</string>
			<key>SWReleaseNotes</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/EMEA/101/223/v20/sm_release_notes_emea.txt</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>product</key>
			<string>Theater Appliance</string>
			<key>old-Version</key>
			<string>01.24.262072A</string>
			<key>new-Version</key>
			<string>01.55.270595A</string>
			<key>Region</key>
			<string>APAC</string>
			<key>SWURL</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/APAC/101/220/v15/install.img</string>
			<key>SWReleaseNotes</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/APAC/101/220/v15/sm_release_notes_apac.txt</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>product</key>
			<string>Theater Appliance</string>
			<key>old-Version</key>
			<string>02.04.299220A</string>
			<key>new-Version</key>
			<string>02.23.348044A</string>
			<key>Region</key>
			<string>APAC</string>
			<key>SWURL</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/APAC/101/223/v20/install.img</string>
			<key>SWReleaseNotes</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/APAC/101/223/v20/sm_release_notes_apac.txt</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>product</key>
			<string>Theater Appliance</string>
			<key>old-Version</key>
			<string>01.16.262072U</string>
			<key>new-Version</key>
			<string>01.55.270595U</string>
			<key>Region</key>
			<string>US</string>
			<key>SWURL</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/US/101/install.img</string>
			<key>SWReleaseNotes</key>
			<string>http://wwtstprv.okla.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/US/101/sm_release_notes_us.txt</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>product</key>
			<string>Theater Appliance</string>
			<key>old-Version</key>
			<string>01.55.270595U</string>
			<key>new-Version</key>
			<string>02.23.348044U</string>
			<key>Region</key>
			<string>US</string>
			<key>SWURL</key>
			<string>http://www.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/US/101/223/v20/install.img</string>
			<key>SWReleaseNotes</key>
			<string>http://wwtstprv.okla.seagate.com/support/software/Theater/US/101/223/v20/sm_release_notes_us.txt</string>
		</dict>
	</array>
</dict>
</plist>

 

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‎01-16-2012 09:45 PM

I cannot say I have a solution for you problem, but I use Netflix on my roommates Vizio television and am encountering the same issue. I was browsing hulu pluss and noticed more listed episodes for shows. Sure enough I check Netlfix, and half of season six and all but two episodes of season seven for Buffy are missing. Fortunately I have hulu, but this annoying and unprofessional to charge for something that cannot be accessed on supposedly compatible devices.
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