Finally, if I want to stream my Netflix I don't have to be stuck using IE. Silverlight is actually pretty good also.

Awesome, finally it comes to Firefox :)

i never have a problem with netflix streaming, and looks just as good as hulu to me

All of this grandstanding over operating systems is fine and dandy, but Netflix still cannot deliver a consistent download stream that often stalls requiring 30-120 minute buffer times. Additionally, Netflix has not addressed the problem of streaming HD quality movies over ISPs such as Comcast that limit the amount of bandwidth users can use per month. According to the BitMeter software, each HD movie I've streamed over Netflix has used a little over 6Mb of bandwidth.

Great, let's see you scale that to hundreds of millions of customers. Neither comcast, google, nor Microsoft can currently handle that with anywhere near 100% reliability.

I'm a new Netflix member and I haven't had that problem.

I'm surprised no one has written about the fact that because its running on Silverlight, I can now watch movies on Firefox. Performance and viewing seem to be comparable, but movies from the Starz collection seem distinctly Lo-Fi.

First no support for the mac, and now silverlight? Just use flash! I was a member, but after reading this, I canceled.

Flash has no DRM capabilities. Good God people... Netflix offers a Mac solution as best they could. Maybe you should go and buy a $500 used macbook.

What is so bad about silverlight? It takes 2 seconds to install and supports great codecs making you get better quality streams with the same connection speed.

Flash _has_ DRM capabilities. Microsoft threw money at Netflix to use Silverturd.

Why use yet another proprietary plug-in? Why help extend Microsoft's monopoly to the internet? Silverturd is nothing but Microsoft's move to control the internet after their failed "works only with IE" program.

How old are you? 14? Or someone in his 30s but scoring less than 80 in IQ tests?

Nothing better than being a Netflix customer with a PowerPC Mac and a Series TWO Tivo. Neither platform is supported in Netflix's latest additions to their watch instantly feature.

I read about watch instantly being made available on Mac and was pleased, only to visit the website and discover it was for intel-based macs only. So, recently, when they announced the partnership with Tivo, I was encouraged. I know my series TWO Tivo connects to the internet and it allows me to rent (should ever want to, which I have not) via Amazon. Surely, this new partnership with Netflix will finally allow me to instantly view films. Alas, silly me, Series THREE and higher only.

Shut out again. I am starting to wonder why I bother being a Netflix member.

The Intel only thing isnt anything to do with Netflix. Silverlight 2.0 is an intel only plugin. Netflix brought it to mac. That much should be applauded. Silverlight enabled DRM on a cross platform basis and thats great for people like me. I am amazed at how this get's pooh-pooh'd simply because slverlight is a MS product.

Silverlight is a fine plugin that wont ever get the traction that flash got but offers a great alternative for unique multimedia experience.

I do not care where any product comes from. My issue has everything to do with Netflix. I am not pooh-poohing anything. I am just expressing frustration with two new beta programs from Netflix that shut me out. I will be more than happy to applaud if/when I too can enjoy the view instantly feature.

Best of luck to all the beta people out there who are allowed to give this a whirl. Wish I were among you.

And why precisely should they roll out a beta of the newest technology with support of a legacy platform it's own manufacturer abandoned?

You decided to buy Apple despite the pattern of abandoning proprietary concepts throughout the its history. Better luck next time...

I assumed they wanted to support Power PC Macs because comments I have read, previous to the release of this Beta suggested they were working to provide instant viewing via all platforms. I believe that is still their hope.

My "legacy platform" is doing just fine. Thank you very much. Now, if you wish to hit the way back machine and argue with someone about which platform is better than another, you'll have to choose some other opponent. I'm out. Have fun.

"Best of luck to all the beta people out there who are allowed to give this a whirl. Wish I were among you. "

What I think is funny about this whole thing is that you bought a product (more then likely over payed for) that was known to be much less compatible with the mass market software then a PC, and then you complain about applications not being compatible with it. Aren't you the one that made this decision?

Apple has been using Intel processors for a while now and you expect Netflix to make their software backwards compatible? Give me a break, most people with older Macs got newer ones with Intel processors when they came out.

About Tivo I wouldn't have expected them to add the Netflix with the Series 2. Plus the Series 3 Tivo is HD so they can probably stream in HD unlike the Series 2 which may not be able to. Its a technology thing and you can't blame Netflix for that either.

Should I have been upset when I couldn't play COD4 on my Xbox 1? They don't stream Netflix on Xbox 1's either should I be upset about that? No, I just get an Xbox 360 and I'm a happy camper. Things move forward in technology, thats just the way it is.

You can't play Netflix on it...Doesn't seem so great to me. Comes with the territory when you go Mac instead of Windows.

Even newer versions of Apple's own free software isn't supported on a Power PC, why would a business support a product that even its own company has given up on?

Not to mention how small Apple's core base is to begin with and you expect them to support a market even smaller then Linux?

That's great its doing just fine but don't complain that a company isn't supporting your dinosaur anymore. Adapt or become extinct because we know what happened to the dinosaurs...