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I spent my lunch searching for any movie on Netflix that I have on BRD at home - not a single match. I get that they don't have the latest movies on Netflix, but even an old one like iRobot was not available. I wonder if it's a studio issue?

In any case I started watching U-571 just because, and I do notice significant video artifact. Banding in the underwater scenes is quite prominent, but I can't know if this is due to source material or introduced by the streaming signal. Audio sounds reasonable without having critically listened to it.

The HD steaming on NF, is no where near comparable to BD, just as their SD steaming is not comparable to DVD. If anything I'd say their SD is like digital cable, and their HD is like HD cable.

I limit my steaming viewing to things where I don't care about picture quality. Mostly TV series.

But if you check carefully, they do have some titles on HD streaming that are not available on anything but DVD. In this case the streaming offers better quality than disc rental.

While NF announced recently that they are now a streaming company that also rents discs instead of the other way around (referring to the number of titles viewed each way), I still rely upon them for discs with occasional streaming.

Same here Chris.

Just discovered today that Blockbuster uphere now has a $9.99 monthly charge which gives you all you can watch for the month with one dvd out at a time(which I doubt they follow, except for new releases, as I saw one person take 4 out on the program today). This competes against Netflix's $8.99 and right now BB has the much larger/better inventory to choose from up here. I wonder if the cable companies will follow suit for thier video-on-demand service.

I've been using the Netflix streaming without a disc now since the feature has been available and I am very happy with the difference. It is like night and day. With the disc, it is very slow to have a chosen title buffer and load. Also, it took quite a long time to return to the menu from watching something. Many times a title would stop after about 15 or 20 minutes and rebuffer. All of these issues are completley gone now. There is a much improved interface. I couldn't be happier, unless of course everyone had better bandwidth to get better quality. But the stuff in HD looks pretty good though: somewhere between good DVD quality and Blu-Ray.