Netflix comes to Windows Media Center

Starting tomorrow, Windows Media Center users who are also Netflix members will gain access to more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly within Windows Media Center on their PCs.

Using the two together is easy and convenient. In Windows Media Center, a new Netflix tile will appear under “TV + Movies”. To stream movies and TV shows from Netflix, just click on the new Netflix tile and login with your Netflix account.

Netflix Tile in WMC UI

You will be able to search the entire Netflix library right from Windows Media Center, and manage both your Instant and DVD Queues. Windows Media Center will also take advantage of Netflix’s “recommended” categories.

 Netflix UX in WMC_Movies

Here is a short video of Netflix in action in Windows Media Center:


Netflix in Windows Media Center

And here is another really neat video walk-through of Netflix in Windows Media Center:


Getting Netflix in Windows Media Center

You can also use your Windows Media Center remote to navigate the player controls and queues for Netflix in Windows Media Center too!

Netflix in Windows Media Center is powered by Silverlight.

If you also have an Xbox LIVE Gold membership and have been streaming Netflix movies and TV episodes to your Xbox 360, this offering will work for you as well.

Netflix in Windows Media Center currently will work only for Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate users today.

This is very cool stuff. You may remember back in March, we launched the Windows Media Center Sports Channel, which offers a variety of interactive sports content including from CBSSports.com, FOX Sports and MSNBC.com. Now more than ever, Windows Media Center offers a great entertainment experience.

UPDATE 5/20: Netflix in Windows Media Center works for Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate users in the U.S. only and does not support Extenders for Windows Media Center.

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  1. bentleycorbitt
    Posted on: May 21, 2009 at 10:25AM  

    Will there be Flip4Mac or Media Player 9 for MAC support for this feature?

  2. smarty
    Posted on: May 21, 2009 at 5:22PM  

    This is complete cheating. No Support for Win 7 Testers??? Great benefit we are getting for testing Win 7???. Guys give us some credit , if not we will have to revert to vista to enjoy this feature. Completely unfair.

  3. smehaffie
    Posted on: May 24, 2009 at 10:48PM  

    When will we get an official response about this being available for all the users testing Win7.  To be honest those who will really test this out and use it the most are those who are already running Win7, so it is amazing that this running under Win7 was not a priority.  Waiting for Brandon or another MS employee to responsd and let us faithful Win7 beta testers know when we can expect to be able to test this new feature out.  Please don't leave it till the official release of Win7.

  4. Douglas Pierre
    Posted on: May 25, 2009 at 4:52PM  

    I have Vista Ultimate and Silverlight on my laptop and desktop.  I can get the Netflix menu on WMC on the laptop but not on the desktop.  Any suggestions?

  5. WraithTDK
    Posted on: June 07, 2009 at 12:29AM  

    I've got Windows Vista Ultimate on 3 computers. The Netflix app is simply not showing up anywhere on Windows Media Center. I have applied every windows update available (including SP2 today), and I've got three other friends experiencing this. Can we get a link to manually download the plugin?

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