Love movies? Netflix is getting an Upgrade Soon!
Our household has been fortunate to participate in NetFlix Streaming for about a month now. We basically got an extra Tab in our NetFlix account to watch movies On-Demand. The selection of “Watch Now” movies is very limited still, with most being documentaries, but I am sure it will grow.
You can actually watch streaming (and only streaming for now, no downloads) movies up to dollar amount of hours of your monthly subscription. For example, we pay about $18 per month, that gives us 18 hours of on-demand movie watching per month. This is in addition to NetFlix sending out their DVDs in their usual rotation.
NetFlix is doing limited beta/roll-out of this, as I understand, before making it available to everyone.
But the latest buzz is around next version of NetFlix On-Demand movie player. It’s incorporating new Microsoft technology called Silverlight, making it into handsome, and fully featured, full-screen movie player.
Good folks at Webware bring us a video preview of this upcoming wonder.
I do hope that Silverlight will further improve the quality of on-demand streaming, to bring it not just to DVD quality, but perhaps even higher 
[via Webware]
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