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On 08/12/13 22:35, Rob Beard wrote: > Um... Netflix has been available in the UK for about a year :-) (I use it > all the time, it's even on the Virgin Media Tivo box, but sadly the > selection of shows isn't as good as the US version). Oh dear, shows how much attention I pay to this sort of stuff normally... I think the limited show selection thing is important, friends who are more interested in this sort of thing than me are still talking about routinely piping their Netflix/Hulu content through US based proxies, and I suppose that's probably why. > I'll give it a shot. Last time I looked at Netflix on Linux there was a > workaround to get Silverlight to run but it wasn't very fast on my laptop > (HD content was out of the question) but that was earlier this year and I > know how quickly things change when those smart coders out there get on to > it. It's hard to go wrong to be honest, it took literally five minutes to get working and backing out the changes if you don't like it will take even less time. > The holy grail for me would be be to incorporate it all with XBMC. I > guess it might happen eventually :-) Your wish is my command: http://serialexperiments.net/introducing-netflixbmc-an-xbmc-netflix-addon-for-linux/ That site gets a massive added points bonus from me: its name is an obvious reference to the immortal anime Serial Experiments Lain*, an absolute classic. Regards * http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=99 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq