Netflix Watch Instantly

I was wondering if anyone's used Netflix Watch Instantly on their new MBP? If so, how is the video? While it looks fantastic on mine if there's no camera movement (literally, almost DVD quality (with DSL Broadband)), when the image moves, I get, well, it's not choppy, per se, but horizontal lines, kind of like when you hold the scroll bar and scroll down in Safari. Anyone else notice this?
Note: I wonder if it's a Silverlight issue (which Netflix is using), since I don't seem to notice this problem on Hulu, which uses Flash (I think)...

The investigation continues...
So, I found this: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8613233#8613233 on a different thread. I've been following this "scrolling distortion" thread as well, because I thought that the problem with that and the tearing in Netflix might be related. Well, it seems they are. It also seems that this is an issue caused by Apple, and not necessarily Nvidia. The culprit?...
CGDisableCoalescedUpdates
Check out the thread above. I tried tellboy's tip and the tearing was gone (when I used Firefox, of course). Apparently, there is no way to implement the same fix in Safari, as they do not allow access to that code.
But, I think we have zeroed in on the problem. It's this Coalesced Updates thing not working well with certain GPUs.

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