" When it comes to online video distribution companies, Netflix is second to none. They ship over 1.6 million DVDs per day to over 6.7 million customers. They now also make 5,000 movies and TV Shows available for download.

I can make Netflix Watch Instantly work on my Linux media center. Almost. Yes, almost. No, I don't have it working. But I thought that with a little help from the community along with instructions on how I've gotten this far might help bring some support to the topic.

Movie distributor Netflix is offering a $100 set-top box aimed at enabling subscribers to stream movies on demand, using a broadband Internet connection. The player runs an embedded Linux OS and is supplied by Roku, a California-based company known for its Linux-based PVRs (personal video recorders).

In the past, I have always found it comical when companies have found themselves buying into the need to protect their content with DRM because of the pressure from the music and movie industries. Well, it seems that Netflix is no different, but I have to ask: is the DRM protection really needed in their case for online movie viewing?

I’ll give a prime example. Wanted to watch a netflix movie tonight, so of course its a windows IE only application (boo on netflix….i need to start a email campaign towards them about that).

It's small and silent, sports an array of ports on the back but only one tiny white LED on the front, and it can help you spend hours of time in front of your TV -- and it runs Linux. It's the Netflix Player from embedded device specialist Roku, and we got our hands on it for a review of the service and the hardware.

Trolltech announced that the Roku-developed Netflix Player streaming-media device incorporates its Qt for Embedded Linux development stack. Recently introduced by Netflix as a simplified embedded device version of its "Instant" movie downloading desktop software, the Netflix Player sells for $100.

Last week, I received an email from a friend, his company Floating weeds has produced their debut film. I rushed to watch the film online and guess what the film was in WMV video format. The standard Ubuntu doesn't ship with proprietary codecs like WMV, you can still watch such videos with just few mouse clicks.

Let's get Netflix to support Linux!

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