Netflix question.
 

I am completely fine DVRing football games and watching an hour or so into live. This way I can fforward thru commercials and such.

But on Netflix, with the 2 games tomorrow, can only watch live, right? That sucks as I must dedicate 3+ hours with no control.

Am I right with this - only live???

You cannot record the game, but you may be able to pause and go backwards and forwards. At least you can with movies and other content.

I’m pretty sure you have control to rewind and pause during live events, so once the game starts, just see if it’ll pause and if so, you’ll be good to go.

Hopefully it will be on the NFL channel later.

And why can't the games today and through the weekend be recorded? On our Xfinity I have all set to record and will play at my leisure.

I have Xfinity and Netflix, but I have never been able to record anything on Netflix. When I press the red record button on my Xfinity remote, nothing happens. How did you do it?

I am watching the 11:00 preview on Netflix and you can play from the beginning, etc. Move it back and forth in time.

Correct, but you are watching it On-Demand, like most other Netflix content. But I don't think you can actually record Netflix content to a DVR. Unless I am missing something?

I tried to record but nothing happened.

Xfinity is live television with the capability to record. When you record them you say they are on your DVR. When Xfinity records them you say they are On-Demand. Both are recordings.

Neftlix doesn't normally have the concept of "live" anything. Your record button doesn't work because it doesn't make sense; all Netflix content has already been recorded and is played back on-demand.

The question is, will the operational mode change for the games today? Will Netflix provide a real time feed during the game and then after the game provide it as on-demand? Or, will Netflix provide the game on-demand from the start but with fast-forward working only until you reach the current time? (clearly, you can't FF to the end of the game before it has happened)

From what Tal is reporting, Neflix is able to use the on-demand mode for this show as well.

I agree, but typically, when you record an Xfinity show to DVR, you can fast forward through the commercials, but when you watch the On-Demand recording, you cannot. Apparently, the Netflix games will have ads, but it remains to be seen if you will be able to fast forward through the commercials.

The real time event will have pauses for ads. Netflix will need to broadcast something in those breaks and obviously you wouldn't be able to FF through them during the live portion of the event.

Neftlix has an ad free plan. I would be surprised if you could FF through ads if you weren't paying for ad free.

On other services (Hulu, maybe YTTV) some content requires ads to be seen even on the ad free plan.

So odds are two out of three you won't be able to FF through the commercials.

I fast forwarded through commercials.

Yay. I can play then switch to something else. On Netflix or not. Then go back to football where it stopped and continue on or fast forward. Great. No commercials etc.

Netflix doesn't have the ability to record livestreams from its service. It's just not something they do.

You could probably get around that by having a livestream play through a DVR device and record it that way, and play it back. It's against the terms of service you agree to when you get your Netflix account, but a lot of people don't care about pesky things such as copyright law and honoring their end of an agreement.