Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Netflix Watch Instantly: Needs more content

So last week the folks at Netflix announced they were adding new content to their "Watch Instantly" library (1,000 titles to be exact) thanks to a partnership with Starz Play. I was pretty psyched when I heard the news 'cause the last time I checked out their library, there weren't that many good titles. So I logged in this week expecting to find a nice selection of new movies and boy was I disappointed. They did add a few popular (not good, but popular) titles like 30 Days of Night, Superbad, Ratatouille, and The Pursuit of Happyness, but scroll a little deeper and you're left with "hits" like Ernest Goes to School and Guy X. Huge disappointment.

What's even more disappointing is that there's still no Mac (or Firefox) support. They said Mac support will arrive before the end of the year, but um, they also said that back in August of 2007. Don't get me wrong, I like Netflix and it's cool this is a free option for most members, but they need to bulk up their Watch Instantly library badly.

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