Wish: Transfer Instant Watch ability to a Profile

[moviemeh]

I joined Netflix recently and I thought I would be able to use the profiles feature to have my girls (4 and 5) watch a movie while Mom and Dad watch theirs, since you can restrict a profile than MPAA ratings (better than nothing).

Unfortunately, profiles do not have watch now functionality, so they have to use my own login.

It would be nice if I could transfer my Watch Now ability to my kids' profile. It looks they were heading down that direction with the parental content controls.

[ediemash]

unfortunately the profiles dont do much but they can do the instant watch but they have to do it under your name, we have kids and what we do we put kids stuff up top and tell them their stuff is in the top 100 .

yea when i first joined that was a bummer for me too, to me it seemed the profiles are useless

[Rosette]

Well as I understand it they are getting rid of the profiles soon so that won't matter and 2....Instant Watch time ability has to deal with how much money you spend each month...so if you are on the 4.99 plan...you only get 5 hours of instant watch time...that is much more IT than they need to deal with unless we all wanted our monthly rates to go up

[Watson]

Nope and nope. They reversed themselves on the elimination of profiles. They also made IW unlimited several months ago, it's no longer tied to how much you spend on all but the cheapest 1 disc plan.

[Rosette]

really...well that is cooool...huh....thanks for letting me know..Well i guess it has to deal with getting writers the money...along with others, etc

[Charlie]

I was also disappointed by this. I wanted to share my account with my family, and set it up so that we each had profiles where we could store personal queues of what we wanted to watch instantly and do that separately. But only the account owner can even look at what's available for instant watch. That's a shame.

[Spindaddydad]

It's a licensing issue with the studios and distributors.

[melsuek1]

What I wish that they would do is allow you to organize your instant watch que in folders. That way, I could make a folder for each member of my family. Or, I could even make a "tv" folder, a "comedy movie" folder, etc. It would sure make it easier to find stuff in the instant watch. I hesitate to put certain movies in the que because I don't want my kids to accidentally start watching an R rated movie.

[Adrian]

Sorry but at the moment the only way to do this is sign up for two separate Netflix accounts at the same address, and have one for the children.

The hardest thing to do is build features that will be used by more than a tiny number of power users....

[melsuek1]

I think that more than a few users would use this. All families have members with different tast and would like there stuff grouped together. Also, I am reading that many people have more than a hundred or two things in their que. Try paging through it to find something. Very time consuming!

[moviemeh]

I think that more than a few users would use this.

I think that's an understatement.

[Ss Sss]

The hardest thing to do is build features that will be used by more than a tiny number of power users....

How many households have children in the Netflix user base? I'd hardly call that feature a "power users" demand.

[ColdOne]

How many households have children in the Netflix user base? I'd hardly call that feature a "power users" demand.

If every Netflix household with children were to use this feature then this point might be valid. But it's quite obvious they wouldn't, so this argument is meaningless.