+1 for the Wii, especially for younger children as I have. The games are much more fun watching them jump around and shake and what not. Netflix streaming works well on it too. Also, there are Blu-Ray players now that support other OTV such as Vudu and maybe Netflix too. My problem with Amazon Prime is selection is way smaller last I checked. Hulu with commercials? That's a deal breaker for me. As for Linux support, I would be very interested in that for Netflix but I won't hold my breath. My TV has a VGA-in port and stereo so its easy to hook up the laptop or any computer really. In Ubuntu on my laptop I just set the VGA out port it to mirror my desktop and just start any video file, DVD, etc. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> Sender: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:51:16 To: TCLUG List<tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: [tclug-list] Netflix streaming - if no Linux, what hardware is best? I think they aren't going to get Netflix streaming working for Linux anytime soon. Here's one discussion: http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/94750 I saw a couple of others and they made the situation sound even worse than that one. I have never used Netflix's streaming feature (even though it was available for free with Netflix for awhile) because I didn't have a lot of incentive and my main HDTV is hooked up to a Linux box. But now I'm thinking I might drop DirecTV and do more TV via the web. Netflix streaming might be $8 now, which is a lot cheaper than DirecTV, if I can make it work well enough. I can stream Netflix using another external device like Wii, PS3 or Xbox360... http://www.netflix.com/HowItWorks ...but I don't own any of those. There also are a few Roku products to choose from: http://www.roku.com/roku-products Now that my daughter is 4 years old, it might be a good time to get a video game machine of some kind. Anyway, if you have found a way to make Linux do Netflix streaming, I hope you will share it. If you don't have that but you know something about how well the other products work with Netflix, then I hope you'll share that. Thanks. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list