It seems that Netflix is gearing up to release a chrome extension that will bring on demand video to Chrome, ChromeOS, and Linux via HTML5:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/n...ideo-to-linux/

Very neat. Something tells me that the GPU (webGL) will be used to decrypt the video. I would assume that the javascript would be hard to read, so I'm most interested in their obfuscation techniques!