It definitely does not appear on the Apple TV. It did show up today on my Mac, but not on the Apple TV. Maybe you should try this Boxee hack…it’s hardly a hack and it really opens up the Apple TV’s potential.

You’re entitled to your opinion about Netflix’s feature. I’m glad you like it. I still think the selection is pretty terrible.

I haven’t installed Boxee on my AppleTV – I don’t want to hack it. I’ve been looking at the Mac version (which is the same version that you install on the AppleTV). If Netflix can’t run on the AppleTV hardware that’s another issue – and I’ll update the article to reflect it.

@Jake

I don’t know what you tell you, man. It’s CLEARLY there. I’ve told you how to get to it – I see it, thousands of others see it to. If you don’t see you either don’t have the most updated version, or there is something wrong with your machine. It’s there. There’s nothing else I can tell you.

@Michael–

I’ve updated to the latest boxee on both my mac and my apple TV, and it is definitely not there. I would notice.

How did you get Netflix in Boxee on AppleTV? From the blog regarding the addition of Netflix:

the bad news: we could not make it run on Apple TV ☹ . we tried real hard. vulkanr was almost able to tame it, but he was bucked by the Apple TV’s 1Gz processor. it screamed back at him in thick Scots brogue, “I can’t do it captain, I just don’t have the power!” we’re still working on it, but don’t have a solution, yet.. also there is no Netflix for Ubuntu, yet (i believe Netflix mentioned they will support Linux later in 2009).

If you did manage to get it working on AppleTV I’d love to know how.

-Vince

I didn’t say that Netflix has 150+ movies available via Watch Instantly, I said that I have more than 150+ movies I found worthy of adding to my Watch Instantly queue. They have significantly more than 150 movies available via Watch Instantly. In my opinion the fact that I found 150+ movies that I deemed worth watching makes the Netflix Watch Instantly service significantly better than “pretty terrible”.

-Vince

Look under VIDEO> INTERNET – you’ll see a big red box that says “NETFLIX” if you don’t, you need to update the software.

Actually Nick, the AppleTV version of boxee (which is the Mac version of boxee) has Netflix access just fine (under the Internet tab) so you’re inaccurate.

I just checked it myself. It’s there.

They may have 150+ movies in the list…but I know for a fact that at least ONE of those movies is one that was made in my home town for about $200. I’m in it.

There’s a big difference between that movie, and “Hancock”.

Not that the little indy is bad – I think it’s quite good for the money they had…I’m just saying, it’s a different animal.

-Vince