Netflix, the online DVD rental site, has a very nice feature of allowing many of their movies to be streamed instantly from their site. They say they more than 12,000 movies are available this way for their members. Typically Netflix subscribers pay for a certain number of “slots” of DVD rentals per month to be mailed to them. Return a movie get another movie.
The streaming movies do not count against the “slots”, so you can have your 3 DVDs at home and still stream as many movies as you like to your PC. Ooops — I did say PC, as in Windows. Unfortunately this great Netflix member benefit hasn’t been available to Mac users.
Netflix announced today that they are using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology to bring this streaming service to users of the newer Intel-based Macintosh computers. Netflix claims that Intel-based Macs “currently account for roughly three-fourths of Mac units operated by Netflix subscribers.
The service is to be rolled out to all subscribers by the end of the year. If you are a current Netflix subscriber and use a PC, give it a try now.
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