With the most ironic move of the year, Netflix brings watch on demand to the Mac thanks to Microsoft’s Silverlight. I must say this implementation of their player is fantastic. The quality is excellent, sometimes resembling 720p HD. Not quite getting there but close, close enough for streaming. The player has had no problems playing a few movies. I had more problems on the windows side even a few weeks ago. Having to upgrade to Windows Media Player 11 and getting the Netflix player plugin and lets not even talk about the auto licensing issues that can occur. Also if you have the wrong monitor the movies won’t play properly some times because of the DRM solution. Lets just say it takes some trouble shooting to get the windows version of the player working properly in some cases. I actually hope they adopt the Silverlight player on the windows side as well as it was completely painless.

Link: Netflix Mac Beta