Not a single XBox owner in the crowd.

Silverlight, Micrsoft’s media delivery platform now used by Netflix, is a win for both Macs and PCs.

Macs, you can now Watch Instantly.  Welcome to the club.  High-fives from the PCs.

Windows users, things just got better.  The annoying media acquisition & digital rights prompts are gone.  Better still, Silverlight lets you Watch Instantly with Firefox; no more IE-only watching.  Playback is much faster, with less badwidth adjustments, and improved controls.

Netflix announced on Friday the beta release of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Mac and Windows computers.  PC users have been able to watch instantly using Internet Explorer for a few months, leaving Mac users jealous and desperately waiting.  Now, thanks to Silverlight, Intel-based Macs (sorry PPC folks) can stream movies and TV with Safari and Firefox.  Netflix members, go to the opt-in page to become a beta tester and download Spotlight. Netflix remind us in Friday’s post that the beta player may contain bugs and that not all titles are available.