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Just Netflix for now. I believe they are working to expand it to other things.
I'm much enjoying the Roku so far (I haven't watched one of my mailed discs in quite a while). Some drawbacks:
1. Almost everything available from Netflix is not almost available via Roku. Of my 400+ queue only about 75 are available streaming.
2. Starz (the cable channel) is the source of a fair number of the newer stuff and they seem to still present most movies in fullscreen rather than widescreen.
3. No subtitles for English language movies (generally, when available I prefer to watch everything with subtitles - my hearing sucks and this lets me keep the volume at neighborly levels).
4. Only one audio track for foreign language movies so it may be dubbed or subtitled and you can't change it.
5.This is a streamed service so sometimes you do lose buffer while watching the movie and have to wait for it to restart. Netflix seems to still be working on the size of their pipe. Buffering problems (for me anyway) are worst on Thursday and Friday evenings.
6. If you have a large Instant queue the navigation is arduous since you can only scroll through the list linearly.
Pluses:
1. If a lot of movies you want to see are available, this can significantly improve the cost benefit ratio of your existing Netflix package since you are now limited only by the time you have to watch.
2. Super easy set up. It was literally 10 minutes from box opening to starting my first title.
3. If you've streamed movies to your computer from Netflix you might have questions about the image quality. Even on the best connection I found that there was a fair amount of artifacting. I do not see that with Roku (unless I get bumped down to a lower quality stream).
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