Commitments And Contingencies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Future Minimum Payments Under Lease Financing Obligations And Non-Cancelable Operating Leases

Future minimum payments under lease financing obligations and non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2012 are as follows:

Year Ending December 31,	Future Minimum Payments
	(in thousands)
2013	$	24,016
2014	16,651
2015	17,393
2016	17,718
2017	13,839
Thereafter	49,741
Total minimum payments	$	139,358

Expected Timing Of Payments For Commitments

The expected timing of payments for these agreements to acquire and license streaming content that represent current or long-term liabilities as well as obligations not reflected on the Consolidated Balance Sheets is as follows:

	As of
	December 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
	(in thousands)
Less than one year	$	2,299,562	$	1,713,445	(1)
Due after one year and through 3 years	2,715,294		2,384,373
Due after 3 years and through 5 years	540,346		650,480
Due after 5 years	78,483		74,696
Total streaming content obligations	$	5,633,685	$	4,822,994

(1) Prior period amounts have been presented to conform to the current period presentation which includes the streaming portion of "Current content liabilities" reflected on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Note that total streaming content obligations remain unchanged with this presentation. Specifically, payments for streaming content obligations expected to be made in less than one year as of December 31, 2011, as shown above, include $0.9 billion of "Current content liabilities" reflected on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.