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Netflix on your TV with Beyond Media

The Snapstream blog has a pretty cool post about a new Netflix plugin for Beyond TV with screenshots. Thanks to both the Netflix API and built-in API with Beyond Media, a user was able to create a Netflix lookup and manager that works within the PVR software application. Cruising Netflix from the couch seems pretty cool as the Beyond Media software does interact with your DVD player, but kind of a bummer that you can't actually download movies or see them until they get mailed to you.

It'd be cool to see this plugin extended so that if I have say, Napoleon Dynamite, in my Netflix queue, the plugin would search my upcoming TV listings to alert me if anything I have upcoming in Netflix will be shown on a movie channel. A feature like that would help make both my Netflix and cable tv subscriptions more useful, and save me time and effort in the process.

by Matt Haughey April 10, 2006 in News

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