I suggest the Wii if you need to get a console otherwise (as the owner of a 360 and a Roku and part-time user of a Wii) the Roku is the best set-top device for video that I've used. -- Ryan On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > I think they aren't going to get Netflix streaming working for Linux anytime soon. Here's one discussion: > > http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/94750 > > I saw a couple of others and they made the situation sound even worse than that one. > > I have never used Netflix's streaming feature (even though it was available for free with Netflix for awhile) because I didn't have a lot of incentive and my main HDTV is hooked up to a Linux box. But now I'm thinking I might drop DirecTV and do more TV via the web. Netflix streaming might be $8 now, which is a lot cheaper than DirecTV, if I can make it work well enough. > > I can stream Netflix using another external device like Wii, PS3 or Xbox360... > > http://www.netflix.com/HowItWorks > > ...but I don't own any of those. There also are a few Roku products to choose from: > > http://www.roku.com/roku-products > > Now that my daughter is 4 years old, it might be a good time to get a video game machine of some kind. > > Anyway, if you have found a way to make Linux do Netflix streaming, I hope you will share it. If you don't have that but you know something about how well the other products work with Netflix, then I hope you'll share that. Thanks. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list