May I post a shameless and totally self-centered plug? 

LoadDVD Pro has Netflix built-in for your enjoyment and enhancement of DVDP. Using some heuristics, I try and select a suitable available Netflix entry and post a Netflix icon to either play the movie, play the trailer or just go to the web site, depending on what is available.

Personally I use it for TV Series that I haven't bought yet. My code tries to find a match. When you start the series up, of course the episodes are available in the Silverlight browser. I even ship a little Netflix icon that you can use for a Netflix Custom Collection.

By the way, I am a Netflix registered developer, and all API calls are sanctioned and supported by Netflix. I chose NOT to implement account functions, so I do not have access to your personal info. You must have login cookies established in a browser on your PC, and they will be used automatically by LoadDVD Pro's built-in player. Your broswer must also have Silverlight installed, and somehow that also gets used by the embedded IE browser in my plugin.

Here is a little demo video. Enjoy.

Quoting 8ballMax:

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Quoting Dr. Killpatient:

... I don’t see how you can compare digital book sales to Films. Granted, eBooks are more convenient for the consumer because they take up less space in the home and you don’t have to cart your books around in a backpack. Print doesn’t suffer from digitizing and it’s cheaper for the producers. Films on the other hand do suffer from digitizing and if your viewing pleasure is limited to streaming then you will always be a slave to the distributor of your media. At least with physical media I don’t have to worry that my internet connection will go down '''

So, IMO, physical media is here to stay, in one form or another. You never know. With the advances in nano and organic chemistry, the future may bring us HD films on a chip the size of a postage stamp .

A couple more thoughts this raised on digital books vs streaming/downloads:

Books are much heavier than dvds, so much easier to carry and store. Plus no huge drop in quality, and if your internet fails, it's already stored on your device to read them. Small files quick and easy to download.

Save paper, save trees, etc.

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For the life of me, I will never understand this argument that digital streaming will never take over because a sizeable group of people won't have the bandwidth to use it.  Ummm...how would you categorize video on demand, which is offered by most every major cable and satellite company?  It sure isn't physical media.  Now imagine Netflix licensing their service to Comcast, Time Warner, Dish and DirectTV.  Poof, you've got a major chunk of the population all ready for streaming.  Honestly, it doesn't take all that much thinking outside the box to see how streaming could take off very rapidly.  I'm not saying that it will, but discounting it completely because of imaginary technical issues is just foolish.

Ummm...we weren't talking about VOD or Cable/Satelite were we? VOD or Pay-Per-View may be offered via satelite/cable but the "masses" can't afford or necessarily want cable/satelite either. You can "imagin" Netflix doing whatever you want. But Netflix licensing their service doen't make the quality of content any better now does it? That's what we're talking about here. If Internet Streaming can't match the video/audio quality of Blu-ray at an affordable price to the masses then it will never replace physical media.

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For the life of me, I will never understand this argument that digital streaming will never take over because a sizeable group of people won't have the bandwidth to use it.  Ummm...how would you categorize video on demand, which is offered by most every major cable and satellite company?  It sure isn't physical media.  Now imagine Netflix licensing their service to Comcast, Time Warner, Dish and DirectTV.  Poof, you've got a major chunk of the population all ready for streaming.  Honestly, it doesn't take all that much thinking outside the box to see how streaming could take off very rapidly.  I'm not saying that it will, but discounting it completely because of imaginary technical issues is just foolish.

Ummm...we weren't talking about VOD or Cable/Satelite were we? VOD or Pay-Per-View may be offered via satelite/cable but the "masses" can't afford or necessarily want cable/satelite either. You can "imagin" Netflix doing whatever you want. But Netflix licensing their service doen't make the quality of content any better now does it? That's what we're talking about here. If Internet Streaming can't match the video/audio quality of Blu-ray at an affordable price to the masses then it will never replace physical media.

VOD is streaming, whether you choose to believe that or not.  When the studios list their home video profits as being 50% SD, 25% Blu and 25% streaming, do you really think that last 25% is exclusively looking at internet video?  I suppose they just don't count any revenues from VOD?  It probably doesn't even need to be said, but it should be telling that streaming profits are equal to Blu as of last year...however the studios are defining streaming.

Regarding the masses, they're not exactly flocking to Blu-ray in droves so I find your argument puzzling at best.  Yeah, the percentage of Blu goes up every year for total disc sales, basically grabbing a bigger piece of an overall shrinking pie.  A pretty dubious achievement.  Oh sure, for the die-hards there will always be discs, just like there are still records.  Of course this eventually-to-be niche group will be paying a premium to have their format supported, but that's the beauty of consumer demand, no matter how small it becomes.

I mean if the argument is that there will always be some enclave of people who refuse anything but discs, well that would be pretty hard to refute.  But it hardly suggests that somehow physical media will continue to rule the home video market forevermore.

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May I post a shameless and totally self-centered plug? 

No, you may not. Take it back!

Currently in the UK, I don't think streaming will take off....and I'm very pleased about that.

I say, let America (who seem to love streaming) keep it...while we in the UK keep the physical media! 

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For the life of me, I will never understand this argument that digital streaming will never take over because a sizeable group of people won't have the bandwidth to use it.  Ummm...how would you categorize video on demand, which is offered by most every major cable and satellite company?  It sure isn't physical media.  Now imagine Netflix licensing their service to Comcast, Time Warner, Dish and DirectTV.  Poof, you've got a major chunk of the population all ready for streaming.  Honestly, it doesn't take all that much thinking outside the box to see how streaming could take off very rapidly.  I'm not saying that it will, but discounting it completely because of imaginary technical issues is just foolish.

Ummm...we weren't talking about VOD or Cable/Satelite were we? VOD or Pay-Per-View may be offered via satelite/cable but the "masses" can't afford or necessarily want cable/satelite either. You can "imagin" Netflix doing whatever you want. But Netflix licensing their service doen't make the quality of content any better now does it? That's what we're talking about here. If Internet Streaming can't match the video/audio quality of Blu-ray at an affordable price to the masses then it will never replace physical media.

VOD is streaming, whether you choose to believe that or not.  When the studios list their home video profits as being 50% SD, 25% Blu and 25% streaming, do you really think that last 25% is exclusively looking at internet video?  I suppose they just don't count any revenues from VOD?  It probably doesn't even need to be said, but it should be telling that streaming profits are equal to Blu as of last year...however the studios are defining streaming.

Regarding the masses, they're not exactly flocking to Blu-ray in droves so I find your argument puzzling at best.  Yeah, the percentage of Blu goes up every year for total disc sales, basically grabbing a bigger piece of an overall shrinking pie.  A pretty dubious achievement.  Oh sure, for the die-hards there will always be discs, just like there are still records.  Of course this eventually-to-be niche group will be paying a premium to have their format supported, but that's the beauty of consumer demand, no matter how small it becomes.

I mean if the argument is that there will always be some enclave of people who refuse anything but discs, well that would be pretty hard to refute.  But it hardly suggests that somehow physical media will continue to rule the home video market forevermore.

Do you work for the Cable/Salelite industry …j/k

All I’m saying is that for me, Internet Streaming just doesn’t cut the mustard. In my experience, and I admit that it’s limited, the quality, both in video and audio, has been mediocre at best compared to what I can get with physical media.

As Taro stated, unless the industry is willing to invest billions in completely overhauling the infrastructure so as to easily handle 1080p and lossless audio over the internet, I don’t see physical media going the way of the Dodo any time soon.

Another reason I prefer physical media over Streaming, especially VOD, is that I like to rewatch some films without having to pay to watch them again or have time limits on viewing a film once I’ve ordered it. I also like the fact that I can take a few Blu-ray discs with me when I go camping and watch them on my laptop in my tent at night. Can’t stream out in the woods .

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Even in today's modern times there are still people who have never had cable/satellite or even internet access. So you've got perhaps millions of people in the US that would just be cut off from new movies at home it streaming ever replaced physical media 100%.

You can count me in this category. I will never subscribe to a cable or satelite service again. Did it once, had cable about 7 years ago and cancelled it due to crappy service. I thought about going back to cable recently but found out that Comcast isn't available in my area and that the only alternative is the same crappy company (Charter Cable/Internet) that I ditched 7 years ago. I live in a town with a population of around 40,000 just 40 miles or so from Silicon Valley and I can't get decent cable service...go figure .