I’m back as a Netflix user. I took a hiatus to focus that entertainment money on more important things like food and shelter, but as school is back in session my extra curriculars dwindle so I watch some more cinematic pieces.

I joined up again for a couple of reasons but none more important than the xbox’s coming integration. In the past few weeks I have been using play-on to watch hulu on my tv and it does drastically change the experience from watching on a computer. Thats why in my opinion when some of those podcasts we all watch (such as diggnation or the totally rad show) get into a platform where they are easier to stream to the TV, then they really will take off. Huge numbers of people online, and I watch it via my xbox, but even still when Internet enabled TV’s (or similar systems accomplishing the same thing) become more commonplace then those shows become more than just a web-geek world.

So, before that tangent what I was trying to say is that my xbox + netflix will become my first direct to box content service and its going to be interesting to see how it works.

One bone to pick with Netflix and it is a major annoyance on my part. How on God’s green earth do you still not support FF. I’m assuming it has nothing to do with tech specs and that there is some microsoft tie-in because honestly I have not opened Internet Explorer in months before yesterday so that I could watch my show via the netflix player. (Those 30 seconds from loading IE to getting to my movie start make me hate myself).

Someone please fix that. Or know a work around? maybe I just need an IE Tab extension for FF. See, writing these posts makes my brain work better.

I will be posting a couple technical (not so much) posts later , 1 on animated favicons and the other on building your own im-bot. Also hopefully a review of google chrome. If you don’t know what that is, please plug in the internet. Thanks.