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I just signed up for a Netflix account last night. The thing that hooked me on signing up was that you can watch some movies streaming over the Internet and that they made a deal with Microsoft to offer movies through Xbox Live at no additional cost. I'm hoping the XLive movies will offer HD format so I can watch them on my HDTV.

I know some of you use Netflix already, but have you checked out the online streaming movies?
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I've been using Netflix for 5 years now but I have yet to watch a single movie from them via streaming. I guess the main reason is because I much rather sit in my cumfy lay-back chair and watch a movie or tv show episode on my 60" HDTV than to be huddled around my flat screen monitor and watching something while I sit on my computer chair which is comfortable but not nearly as comfortable as my living room tv watching chair. :-)

Actually, the ONLY place where I've watched stuff via streaming is from scifi.com when I watched the Season 4 BSG episodes.
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I don't even think we got it in Canada eh as I don't see hardly ANY commercials for it here yet state side they where ALL over the dam place. But generally I jsut buy my dvd's either second hand at a video store like rogers video (I am premium member since I work for rogers lol) or blockbuster or brand new if its a big movie I want special edition of.
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Netflix is a huge life saver for me because there are a lot of movies and tv shows that I like to watch on dvd but I dont like them enough to buy. I'm big into foreign films so I like to experiment by checking out a bunch of movies I've never heard of. Netflix is great because I can just rent the movie and if I dont like it, I just send it back. Without Netflix, I would have to take a big risk by buying the movie or I have to visit a stupid Blockbuster and hope they have it.
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Netflix will begin HD streaming over XBox Live exclusively (at least to start) ... however, they will only have about 300 HD movies to begin with - the rest are SD.
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Gator wrote:however, they will only have about 300 HD movies to begin with -.
Right so I'm sure they'll have stuff like Transformers and Dark Knight available on HD streaming but dont expect to see something like Waiting to Exhale. PDT_Armataz_01_12
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