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Last year (or maybe longer?) I had a Netflix subscription. I got it because I wanted to watch Battlestar Galactica and a couple of other shows, and I don’t pay for cable, so it seemed a reasonable compromise. I dropped it when my TV watching started to peter out.

In the interim, they launched an internet based video viewing system. Essentially you could play stuff, but a limited number of hours. Something like x hours per $ you spent on the service. So if you spent $17 on the service, you’d get 17 hours of view time per month. Not bad!

Well I’m thinking to myself “I need to see this next season of Battlestar Galactica” and I figure maybe I’ll get Netflix for a while again. Then I see that their internet based video distribution is now unlimited. That’s right – a subset of their content can be viewed on demand online. And with an HTPC, this is totally sweet.