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STREAMING NETFLIX

January 19th, 2010

If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you probably love checking the mailbox in search of whatever DVDs your ordered up a day or two before.

And, as a seasoned Netflixer, you’ve probably noticed that the company has really been ramping up their Watch Instantly streaming video service. They’re not there yet, but Netflix is working toward a day when the DVDs can go away and they deliver your movies to you through cyberspace. That’s why they called the company Netflix and not DVDs-By-Mail.

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The trouble is, as it stands now, you can’t tell which movie, TV show, documentary or concert title is designated as a Watch Instantly movie unless you happen to search for a specific title and you stumble onto the Watch Instantly option. Netflix doesn’t have a page dedicated to identifying titles coming to Watch Instantly, nor do they provide a way to search for those titles.

Well, now there’s a free website called Streaming Soon that provides all the information on those movies that Netflix says are headed your way via their Watch Instantly portal.

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The good folks behind Streaming Soon manually search Netflix’s site each day looking for titles that are identified as “streaming coming soon” as well as those with a specific streaming-on date. They then add all that information to their Streaming Soon site and encourage other Netflix subscribers to share news of new titles as well.

So whether you’re looking to stream Samuel Fuller’s 60’s crime classic, Underworld U.S.A. or you want to study Madonna’s Judy Holliday-inspired performance in Who’s That Girl or you simply want keep the brats quiet with Brad Bird’s animated The Iron Giant starring Jennifer Aniston, well, Streaming Soon is the online resource for you.

You can check it out right here at Streaming Soon.

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