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WebTVWire explores the issue of whether or not Netflix, recently doing lots to make the idea of digital downloads and streaming mainstream, is having to throttle its broadband streaming to PCs in order to meet its obligations to XBox 360:

A thought-provoking post on The Break it down Blog investigates whether Netflix has started throttling its service to PC users. The author, Riyad Kalla, has noticed a deterioration of the Netflix ‘Watch Instantly’ service on his PC compared to on his Xbox 360.

He details how he determined that it was Netflix rather than his ISP, Qwest, doing the throttling and asks whether this is due to Netflix having contractual obligations to provide a certain level of service to Microsoft via the Xbox 360.

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Whether or not this is happening at Netfilx, the issues are interesting and WebTVWire explores them well.