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src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/12/netflixqueue.jpg" /br //div br / div
align="left"It's a pretty awesome day to be a a href="http://www.netflix.com"Netflix/a fan. Not
only is the Watch Instantly service a
href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/04/netflix-streaming-officially-comes-to-the-mac/"officially
available/a for OS X, it's also now working via a href="http://boxee.tv"boxee/a, my favorite media
center application!br /br /Boxee pushed out an impromptu update last week for a
href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/AppleTV/"Apple TV/a owners, specifically to address issues with the a
href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/19/apple-tv-update-2-3-released/"2.3 firmware update/a. Today's
update is targeted at all boxee versions and adds a host of new features, including the big dog: a
href="http://blog.boxee.tv/2008/12/04/boxee/"Netflix support for US customers/a. strongNote:
/strongNetflix support is currently only in the Mac version of boxee. The boxee team is working
hard to bring it to the Apple TV, but they need to work around some of the hardware limitations.
They'll be posting updates on the a href="http://blog.boxee.tv"boxee blog/a on their progress.br
/br /Here's the rundown:br / ul liNetflix support for Mac usersbr //li liImproved a
href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/Hulu/"Hulu/a performance and a new Hulu interface, including access
to your personal Hulu queues/li liAccess to a href="http://thewb.com"TheWB.com/a (US only unless
you use a proxy) br //li liThe Boston Globe's Big Picture blog - amazing photos from around the
world/li liMTVMusic - songs/artists in your collection are now linked with music videos/li liNew
YouTube interface, improved performance and .h264 support/li liCustom interfaces and improved
playback for CNN, Flickr and Picasa/li /ul All in all, this is a pretty stellar update. When I a
href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/27/tuaw-talks-to-boxee-and-brings-you-invites/"talked/a to the
team from boxee last week, they made it clear that Neflix was the #1 priority. That they got Netflx
running in boxee in under two weeks is nothing short of amazing. Yes, I do wish that support would
be extended to Apple TV users, but I can be patient. br /br /If you haven't tried boxee, you can go
to a href="http://boxee.tv/tuaw"http://boxee.tv/tuaw/a and get an invite. You'll need an Intel Mac
running OS X 10.4 or OS X 10.5 or an Apple TV. Boxee is also available for Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04,
though I'm unsure if the team was able to implement Netflix support for Ubuntu yet.br /br /Give it
a shot and tell us what you think in the comments!/div /divp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a
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