That's only temping because of the high resolution. I'm not sure if it's Comcast being intentionally awful or just incompetent, but I can't seem to stream HD anything on netflix. I turn on manual buffering and HD options just aren't there. If that problem didn't exist, there's basically no benefit in making paying the large up front cost.

Now, if production costs were completely covered by subscribers, it would be interesting to see what sort of movies get made.