Netflix has a dance card that's almost full. The day after we find out the video rental-by-mail company's Watch Instantly service will be showing up on the Xbox 360 in HD trim, we hear it's also going to make its appearance on TiVo personal video recorders in December. While it'll be only available on TiVo's HD boxes, too bad it won't be busting out of the gate in high definition. Looks like that's bound to be on the way, though.

So now you can stream movies and TV shows from the Internet in tons of ways on TiVo, including web video such as YouTube, the Amazon Unbox service where you pay a few bucks for each movie, and now Netflix, which is free if you're a member of Netflix (which will cost you $8.99 a month to get one DVD at home at a time and unlimited streaming). Exciting stuff.

Add that to the availability of Netflix Watch Instantly on Blu-ray players from LG and Samsung, and having a stand-alone Roku Netflix box — or even a PC — in your home theater might not even be worth the trouble.

Via New York Times