I've been paying a little bit of attention to Netflix's Watch Now feature for quite a while, ever since it was introduce last year.  As I wasn't a Netflix customer until recently (I was using Blockbuster who I recently ditched) I didn't really get to play with this much.  Now that I am a happy Netflix customer I decided I'd check it out.

The first problem with the service is selection, there really isn't any.  It's pretty damn terrible in fact with one exception (so far), TV shows.  After browsing around I found two shows that I've been wanting to catch, NBC's 30 Rock and Showtime's Dexter.  There remained one problem, I really don't want to watch these on my laptop but rather on my Windows Media Center edition PC in my living room.  This is where MCE Browser comes in.  MCE Browser is just as it sounds, a browser add-on to Media Center that lets you surf around with your standard remote control.  After a few keyboard entires (to put in my Netflix user/pass) I was happily watching the pilot of 30 Rock on my nice 46" LCD TV.  Sweet.

While this worked it wasn't a great experience (had to use a keyboard a lot, no playback control from the standard remote), someone needs to build a real interface into Media Center for this sorta stuff.  With tons of Media Center PC's out there (no clue how many are actually used for Media Center) this seems like such a natural fit for these types of applications, I just don't get why no one has connected the two.  Anyone wanna start a company???