Netflix Instant Watching
For a while, one of the big projects at work has been the instant viewing feature for the Netflix website, which involves serving up high quality streaming video realtime to PCs. After having to be pretty careful about what I say about video on the computer for the past few months whenever the subject comes up in conversation, the feature is finally out in the open. There’s isn’t much to say that isn’t in the press release. I’ve been working on web applications for long enough that I’ve forgotten about how much trouble client applications are. Here’s some links to some mentions of the feature. I’ve been fairly happy with the articles so far. I’ve also been kind of irritated here and there, but they can’t all be positive. I just can’t wait until I hear from a friend that happened to be included in the rollout, so that I can get a trusted third party opinion. For all you Mac and Firefox people (which includes me), you’re out of luck for the moment at least since the feature requires IE and Windows.