Netflix Adds Starz Movies, Support For Mac Streaming Coming By End Of Year
Netflix has announced that it's now added titles from Starz Play to its catalogue of instant play titles available for its members. The deal has added 1000 titles right now, and will add another 1500 titles to Netflix Instant Play by the end of the year.
This is big news - one of the biggest complaints about Netflix Instant Play is that it did not include recent movies, but the Starz Play catalogue has added such recent Blockbusters as No Country For Old Men, Superbad, Ratatouille and hundreds more. The full list can be found here.
"But... I'm a Mac user!" you say. "I can't enjoy all this new Starz movie goodness!"
I feel your pain. I hate having to boot into Windows just to watch my Netflix Instant Play movies. But Netflix had some good news for us Mac users as well:
And, for all of you Mac users (of which I am one) we've been busy working getting a solution that will allow you to watch instantly on your Mac. So hang in there - we'll have something for you by the end of the year.
Finally!
Hopefully that "by end of the year" doesn't turn into "sometime next year."
New content to watch instantly [Netflix]
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Posted to In Your House, On Your Desk on 3 October 2008
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Within one hour of its unboxing, The One became the undisputed ruler of Tiny's entire home. Buy this or despair.
What I want to know is will it now work with Firefox? I hate having to launch IE just to watch something on Netflix.
@David:
Well, seeing as there is no Internet Explorer for Mac anymore, then perhaps the Mac solution will also bring about a way to use Firefox on Windows to view Netflix content.
Unfortunately there's no official comment about this.