There are many DVD players that offer this, $100-$150 if you look.
I have the MDD G4 and don't see streaming Netflix ability either.
I use the TiVo for that, or just stick with the DVDs.

On Jul 4, 10:20 am, Illirik Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because everyone knows how awesome proprietary codecs are!
> If you want to stream Netflix cheaply, you can buy a PS3 for $300 and send
> it right to your TV, but as for Mac, I don't know what kind of support there
> is.
> Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC
> architecture.
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > At 9:23 AM -0400 7/4/2010, Norm Rowe wrote:
>
> >> I'm trying to watch movies Netflick on my G4 Mac but am told I need an
> >> Intel Mac. As I do not have that kind of money is there away around this?
>
> > As I recall, Netflix is Silverlight based.
>
> > MS Silverlight 1 is available for PPC, but then they went x86 only for
> > Silverlight 2...
>
> > Silverlight is MS' proprietary rip off of QuickTime and Flash with some
> > .NET support thrown in.
>
> > - Dan.
> > --
> > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
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