Two words ...

... why I'm stoked to be getting my NetFlix disc for my Wii today.

Lucy Lawless

NetFlix has a Starz channel with instant view. Already saw the first episode of Spartacus, and it's alright.

Woo hoo!

I was waiting for this!

Sweet.

The Wii and Netflix

I love Netflix, the Wii looks interesting. I already have Netflix and I'm probably going to get a Wii this weekend. Yay! My dream has always been to have a computer in my living room, hooked up to a nice big large screen LCD "monitor" and use it as a total home entertainment system. Part of the appeal of that would have been because I could then use the NetFlix "Watch Now" feature without having to sit in the office and gaze at the 17" monitor that my home computer is attached to (plus the current NetFlix software and need to use IE sucks).

The Wii has some very nice, rudimentary features (including WiFi capability that allows internet access) and I thought it would be great if I could access NetFlix and watch movies. If that were possible, I'd probably give up, at least for the near term, my desire to get a multimedia computer for the living room and focus on acquiring the LCD television.

Currently the Wii has no such feature, but that may change. So if anyone from Nintendo reads this blog ... allow the Wii to stream movies directly from Netflix, sooner rather than later. Please!

As an aside ...

... watched Kung Fu Panda this weekend. It's hilarious!

Oh jimminy ...

... trying to watch the movie Dark Star (Netflix rules!) but it's completely horrible. I don't know how it managed to get such a good rating.

I will say this though, if you manage to get through the first few minutes, you'll see the inspiration for the Bishop "knife trick" from Alien.

Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap, just give me something I can blow up!

The Happening

Netflix will be delivering this movie to my door (or my mailbox as the case may be) this afternoon. It has a horrible rating over at Rotten Tomatos, and was pretty much panned before it hit the theaters, which is why the wife and I didn't shell out our hard earned ducats to see it on the big screen. But now it's a cheap rental, so what the heck! Claims of "anti-science" have been thrown about when talking about this movie ... so it'll be interesting to see just how blatant it is.

Planet Earth

Just rented Planet Earth, the BBC Documentary, from Netflix. The version Netflix sent me has David Attenborough as narrator.

Watched the first episode From Pole to Pole with the wife last night, and I've got to say, it looks like it's going to be a great series. I'm impressed with the photography, which was done in part with a heligimbal. With this camera, they were able to take shots from over 1.5 km (almost a mile) away, which is damn impressive ... especially when you see the shots. I might be extremely late to this party, but if you haven't seen this series yet ... I'd highly recommend it.