I finally took advantage of NetFlix via XBOX the other night, becoming part of a million person movement and contributing to the 1.5 billion minutes of downloaded content (thank goodness there is no video minute cap and trade legislation in the works).  I wasn’t a NetFlix subscriber so I took advantage of the trial, and let me just say, I will be a subscriber now.  Wednesday night, with nothing on TV, my son (11 years old and avid XBOX Liver) tells me we should check out the NetFlix service to see if there was something we could watch.  In under 10 minutes, we were signed up and watching a stream of the movie Hoosiers (“Don’t get caught watching the paint dry!”).

All in all it was a pretty good experience.  It wasn’t perfect – the early part of the movie was bothered by some bandwidth issues and had some weird “shaking” going on in the background. But after a little bit, it either went away or I got used to.  I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t browse the movie catalog directly from my XBox.  It seems a bit “long winded” to have to go to my laptop to pick a movie to watch on my XBox.  But I threw a bunch into my Instant queue so I won’t have to do that again for a while.  The selection is decent, not great, but it is supposed to be expanding over time so that is not a big concern.

All in all… I am glad to be part of the “movement”…