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Netflix subscribers, if you have an Xbox 360 and Windows Vista PC, you do not have to pay $ 99 for box Roku Netflix Player’s for your library screen shows instantly on your TV?? you already have everything you need. Using the free Windows Media Center plug-in, vmcNetflix, you can turn your Xbox 360 in an area of Netflix Watch Instantly.

With vmcNetflix, you can watch, browse, and queue movies to your Netflix instant monitoring queue from your Xbox 360 or Vista Media Center. A highlight of the list of features more and more listed on the site vmcNetflix include:

* WatchNow Stream movies directly to the Media Center player.
* WatchNow download movies to a “watch later” Gallery.
* Support for Vista Extenders on both x86 platforms and x64.
* Support for Netflix Instant Queue.
* Support for Episode listings.
* Search by keyword for movies.
* Browse DVD and movies WatchNow by Genre.
* photos Sort by title, year, or Star Rating.
* see the queue, history, and recommendations.
* Add, remove, move movies in your queue.
* Compatible with DVD / Movie Parental Controls

What you need

Now that you have idea of the final product, take a look at the short list of things you will need to turn your Xbox 360 into a Netflix player.

1. An Xbox 360
2. Windows Vista with Vista Media Center (it is included by default in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate)
3. A Netflix subscription
4. The plug-in freeware vmcNetflix

Step 1: Setting Up Your Xbox as a Media Center Extender

If you have already configured your Xbox 360 such as Media Center Extender, you can skip this step. Unless you’re already using your Windows PC as a powerful Media Center and have a tuner card installed on your Windows machine, chances are you have not had much reason to set up your Xbox as an extender. With vmcNetflix you have a good reason.

Microsoft already provides detailed instructions to configure your 360 as Media Center Extender, so here’s the summary version. Start your Xbox 360, head to the Media blade and select Media Center. Since you have not already established an extender, your Xbox will walk you through the setup process between your Xbox and PC. The Xbox will generate an eight-digit code to authenticate the connection between the two. Then you fire up Media Center on your PC, go to Tasks -> Add Extender, and fill the blanks in the setup wizard for your eight-digit code when prompted.

Step 2: Install the plug-in vmcNetflix

Now that your Xbox is designed as a bona fide Vista Media Center Extender, you are ready to download and install the plug-in vmcNetflix. There’s nothing to it, so just download the latest plugin from the link and go through the installer.

Step 3: Set Up Watch Instantly on your PC

Before you can stream Watch Instantly videos to your 360 extender, you must ensure that your PC is Watch Instantly ready first. If you’ve already watched videos on this computer using Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature, you can skip this step. If not, go ahead.

Your PC needs to install a plug-in or two from Netflix to help deal with DRM and such used to stream videos. Their installation is as simple as logging into your Netflix account using Internet Explorer, click the Watch Instantly tab, and then playing anything. You do not finish it, so just play, click the first video you stumble.

Netflix will prompt you to install new plug-in before the start of the video that just accept their prompts and install. When you’re done with the ease of installation, you should watch the video you just chose. Once you’re there, you can stop reading. Soon you’ll be watching that through your Xbox on your TV in the comfort of your living room.

Step 4: Configure vmcNetflix on your Xbox 360

Now you need to manage your Xbox 360 Media Extender Center mode. To do this, select the function at the top of your Xbox Dashboard, and run your Media Center from the list where you originally created. Your Xbox will find your computer and boot to Media Center.

Once there, scroll down to the Online Media section, then move left to select the program library. You should see an entry for vmcNetflix. Fire It Up.

This is the first time you run your vmcNetflix Extender, you should set it to your Netflix account. Doing so is as simple as providing the plug-in with your username and password Netflix. Do this and you’re ready to start watching movies. />
Step 5: Enjoy

That’s all there is to it. You can now listen to all Netflix Watch Instantly video directly to the TV in your living room using the Xbox 360 which is already there. No 99 $ from your pocket, no extra piece of equipment to add to your entertainment center. vmcNetflix manages all or almost perfectly, from separate lists for TV episode demonstrates the management and accessing your Netflix Watch Instantly queue.

vmcNetflix plug-in has been in constant development for several months now, but as the video above highlights vmcNetflix plug-in can be a bit slow and sometimes buggy. I hardly notice the sluggishness, though thinking about it, it feels a little slower than normal Media Center Extender. If you encounter any bugs homepage vmcNetflix offers tips for troubleshooting. I found that restarting my 360 and use the Media Center PC or any problems. Remember to check back at home with vmcNetflix occasionally and keep an eye on updates, since the developer is fixing problems and adding features at an impressive rate.

In addition Netflix can download Watch Instantly videos and save them on your computer. This is very handy because saving videos means you do not have to worry about downloads buffering, and video playback, fast forward, rewind and work better together. The downside is that saving videos is not part of the Watch Instantly terms of service.

; ProVFX Visual Effects and Editing School has been written by Pranay Rupani who is a Freelance Writer