Two Apple TVs, One Netflix Account

My friend and I share a Netflix account. I've been waiting to buy myself a newer Apple TV, and now I'm considering getting my friend one for the holidays.
My questions is: can we both have our units linked to the same account? Does it work like that? ANyone have any ideas about this?

Yes, this will be changing. Go and look at Netflix's 2010 financial report- the talk about this exact thing. Your 7.99 account is for one stream period. They will be looking at addon's to increase streams. The whole idea is that they want to move from a "family" account to a "single user" account. Of course, that just screams money grab. For now- it seems we are lucky- but get ready for something down the road where you need to pay an additional $2 or something for extra streams. I personally think that Apple may have had a hand in avoiding this for ATV users though- I can stream from both my ATV2s at the same time.

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Niel, thanks for your reply. i cannot get your thread to open, i will try again later. I see it as http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1860 so let me know if not.
I have sync'd the ATV though I think (will confirm when i can load that page). I get the content I bought on my itunes account. So, I bought/ordered the TV show on ATV and it automatically downloads on my itunes account (i have actually stopped that now as i would prefer to get it on the ATV if i must choose). Once on my itunes on my PC i can see it on my sync'd iPhone but not on the ATV.
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Maybe this is will all be resolved once i can load that link you gave me - will keep trying.
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