I’m not going to do a huge write-up on the newly added Netflix Streaming for Mac feature since you can read a million other in-depth reviews on how Netflix streaming fairs against other services of the same sort. This is just a brief summary of what I encountered when finally getting to use this feature on my MacBook Pro.
Netflix announced, last week, that they were brining their streaming movie/tv library to Apple computers, which is great news for me since I haven’t had a PC capable of streaming anything in years. For the record I have a Macbook Pro, Core2Duo 2.2ghz, 4gb ram, etc etc… so it’s fairly powerful. My only complaint about it is that it runs a little sluggish since I installed Leopard on top of Tiger, meaning I didn’t wipe the computer and do a clean install (I may break down and do that soon). So I fired up Netflix after hearing that Mac streaming was available only to find that it apparently isn’t available to everyone yet.
After doing a little searching I found that there is a beta program and in order to get accepted all you have to do is click a button. So I was accepted and ready to start streaming the thousands of videos and TV shows that Netflix offers… well, not quite yet. I had to dowload the latest version of Microsofts Silverlight, which is what Netflix uses to stream the movies. No big deal, the download took about a minute and installed quickly. Now time to stream movies.
