Thursday, February 08, 2007

I am one of the chosen: Netflix online movies for me


Ha ha! I logged onto my Netflix account and I found a new tab.
It's the "Watch Now" tab, and it means that I can now just watch Netflix movies streaming online. Nationwide roll-out won't be till June, but some people have it now.
The service only works in Internet Explorer, but Firefox users can use the IE Tab extension for Firefox to watch it directly in the Firefox browser. There's a little bit of installing of some Netflix software, but nothing too intrusive.
I watched a little bit of The World's Fastest Indian, and the quality isn't so great, probably because of my connection speed, but it's not too bad. The movie started almost immediately when I clicked the play button, and I think that if my bandwidth weren't being taken up by all my downloads, then my movie would've looked a little better.
All in all, it seems to be a good addition, it's free for Netflix subscribers, but I can't wait till they add more movies to their list of "Watch Now". Currently, it's only some titles are available and most of them are older movies and television shows, but come June, I think it'll be a great deal better.

***Update: I stopped all my other download and dedicated all my bandwidth to Netflix. The movie quality did get better and alot clearer, so your mileage may vary also...

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