On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Lynne Arnold wrote:

> At my friend's house we watched Netflix Instant Watching service
> which was
> pretty cool. This month in MacWorld it has a product review of the
> Roku
> Netflix Player.
>
> Lynne

Streaming movies are the future (where Apple is heading, of course).
Netflix has a small portion of their library ready for streaming, via
your PC (no Mac availability, yet - except via Parallels, etc.). The
Roku players are selling for $99US. There are other companies
scheduling releases of their own players in the near future.

As Lynn has mentioned, MacWorld has articles. Here are a couple:

http://www.macworld.com/article/133572/2008/05/roku_netflix_player.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/134047/2008/06/roku_netflix_review.html?t8

I was a BlockBuster user for a few years, but noticed that it became
the norm that first-run movies were unavailable - which was the main
reason I had subscribed. So, I switched to Netflix a couple of years
ago, and have been generally pleased. The store-movie-swap offered by
Blockbuster, as Nick mentioned, is a good feature.

Jerry

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