What's the point of Netflix Watch Now on Media Center?
Windows Vista Media Center users can now access Netflix Watch Now on their media center PCs. I don't understand why anyone cares.
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That is an excellent point. I've been trying to figure out how this could be beneficial to a WMC user...to no avail. You're right on the money, Peter!RE: Watch now
The only possible benefit to me, and the reason I've spent past hour trying to put Win7 MCE on my spare harddrive was the ability to control the Watch Now playback with the MCE Remote Control.Well for one thing ......
Well for one thing it fixes a major problem I (and many others) have been having with the new Silverlight player.When using the new silverlight viewer in a browser , users with dual monitors can not watch a movie on a second monitor while working on the first. Any attempt to use the main monitor takes the netflix viewer (on the second monitor) out of full screen (just as flash player does).
With this new MCE viewer, along with the help of a small program called "The Maxifier" (which fixes MCE's own dual monitor problem of creating a bounding box for the mouse when full screened) netflix can be watched in full screen once again.
I was thinking of canceling netflix and this new MCE application has been my savior !
This IS a really good thing...
I personally, had been longing for quite some time to have a media center computer, so when I found my HP slimline with an ATSC/NTSC tuner built in and including Vista Home Premium and a VMC remote, I jumped at it. When Netflix came out with the Watch It Now and then people began making plug-ins, I jumped at that, too. The problem with the plug-ins, is that every so often they would just up and quit working, so I would have to go out and download the most recent and re-install. Having an officially sanctioned solution is a great thing - it tends to work more reliably. In addition to Netflix, I can beat VMCs DVR features, I can play all of my music, look at all of my pictures, etc, regardless of where they are on my home network. Plus I can use the machine as a regular computer, too. So while the audience may be small, we VERY much appreciate this step forward.replica bags
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