Streaming TV and movies has got to be the most boring thing you can do with a Raspberry Pi, at least after letting it sit in the box in a drawer.
I have two Pi's. One runs xbian and plays tv, movies and music. The other I use for random projects. The one running xbian gets used every day. The other one gets used every now and then. I love them both equally :)
Why? A Raspberry pi is nothing special - it's just a cheap computer.
Is that just because Netflix still uses Silverlight?
An enterprising hacker could possibly make it work with Wine at some point but not today.
Be very tricky. RPi isn't x86/x64.
I thought you can already use Netflix using Wine?
You'll have to combine Wine with qemu or something because the Pi doesn't have an x86 CPU.