Well, we've got a secret for you: The future is already here. Kind of. It's surprisingly easy to hook your computer up to a television set these days, either with a video-out card or a Windows Media Extender. And if you've got Windows Vista, odds are you've got Windows Media Center, which is a 10-foot interface for accessing your audio, video, and picture collections. And now, thanks to a third party plugin you can even use Windows Media Center to watch streaming video from Netflix (assuming you have a Netflix account).
MyNetflix is a free plugin for Windows Vista Media Center that lets you manage your queue. And most importantly, it lets you browse and watch streaming video using the Netflix "watch now" service. Only a portion of the Netflix library is available for streaming, and good luck finding new releases. But we'd much rather watch old movies on our TV than new ones on our laptop.
[via Chris Lanier]
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2-11-2008 @ 2:51PM
James said...
So just to clarify, does this work with an Extender? I've got a 360 I would *love* to watch Netflix downloads on, but the only way I could think of would be to transcode on the fly through TVersity, and I'm not even sure that would work. If this plugin does the trick... awesome.
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2-11-2008 @ 2:56PM
Brad Linder said...
It looks like a future version of the plugin will work with MCE extenders.
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/4/238353/ShowThread.aspx
2-11-2008 @ 5:06PM
kastonie said...
im tired of seeting stuff come out for media center for vista...what about my xp media center? no love? i guess not.....time for me to upgrade to shit vista and not have anything work worth a shit anymore....
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2-12-2008 @ 8:14AM
michael said...
Vista shit? I guess you haven't been using Vista lately. Works fine for me.
More software and hardware makers have updated their drivers to work on Vista. Aside from some programs that won't work, I love Vista. Can't wait to try this out.