I just found a good reason to boot into the windows side of my machine, and that is the ability to watch movies from Netflix instantly.

We decided to try out the service because why not.  I mean for 8.99 a month you can get dvd rentals AND you can have unlimited online movie viewing.  We were figuring that if we get at least two movies a month that it pretty much evens out to what it would be to rent at Blockbuster.  AND sometimes we like to watch movies on marios computer in bed so now we know that we can use the online service as well to watch those on a whim sort of selections.

Launching into Vista was the worst part of this whole ordeal.  Then when we selected a movie to watch we had to install some netflix software.  That didn’t take too long.  Once the software was installed it really didn’t take that long to start playing, and I could set it to go full screen (which is not that impressive on a 13 inch screen, but not bad when you consider you are watching a full on movie).  It was a little hiccuppy the first few seconds of the movie, but once it got going everything played really well.
The sound on my computer is not that great, just good enough for listening to music when browsing the web, so I plugged some external speakers in and it worked really well.

I have a few trips coming up for work and am very excited about the prospect of being able to watch, what ends up being  on demand type of movies on my computer.  Shit 8.99 is a small price to pay for movies on demand.  I can skip a few lattes a month for that.

I can’t wait until the Linux community figures out how to make Netflix work, OR better yet, Netflix should just add support for Linux and then everyone out there could spend more time watching their movies and enjoying their service than trying to figure out a work around. Although they say necessity is the mother of invention so I am sure that something good will come of it.

I am off to bed.  We watched the Richard Rodriguez Grind house movie and now I am off to dream about having a machine gun leg and shooting zombies.