Well, as promised, I thought I'd talk more about the Netflix Watch Now feature.  It is completely active on my system.  However, it's not yet quite all I'd hoped for.

First, as it turns out, they don't support Firefox for playback of the movies.  Not a terrible problem since I have both browsers available, but annoying in any case.

Second, there aren't actually that many movies available yet.  There are both movies and TV shows, which is great. 

I haven't had a chance to try playing anything yet.  They claim that the quality varies automatically based on your bandwidth.  Anything over about 1.6 Mbps will get you the high quality, but that's not your link speed but rather the current bandwidth available and usable for the client. 

I'm still very curious on how the TV shows work since they usually include multiple episodes.  Do they just string them all together or what?  I'll have to update when I find out more about this.  For now, though, the selection is more for augmenting our current set of DVDs rather than watching, say, the next disk of Alias before we can get more disks back.  However, we likely will be using it on weekends and other times when we run out of Netflix disk.  I just hope they keep adding lots of movies, otherwise we'll exhaust the streaming collection real fast.

Posted by Shane on February 2, 2007 7:58 AM | Permalink