Microsoft not supporting Netflix in Windows Media Center!?

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Microsoft not supporting Netflix in Windows Media Center!?

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Post by sr22 » Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:17 pm

Hello everyone.

I turned on my HTPC this morning and proceeded to Netflix for some streaming fun, and got the error message saying something was wrong with my account. Please login again... I tried.. No good. I searched for the answer and saw nothing about this. I then proceeded to chat with a Netflix associate and after a lot of back and forth they said that Microsoft is no longer supporting Netflix in WMC. WHAT? I have seen nor heard of anything recently to support this. Why then does Netflix still show up in WMC? I could find nothing on Microsoft's site that was even remotely close to what I was looking for.

Has anyone had this issue? Has anyone even heard of this issue?

Thanks in advance for reading.

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Post by foxwood » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:07 am

Unless you (and all the other people posting about this issue) installed an update from Microsoft yesterday, then the change must have happened at the Server side - which means that Netflix is the party that has stopped supporting Netflix in WMC!

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Post by rahick » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:53 am

Same problem. Noticed the problem on both my HTPC's. started yesterday. Tried resetting silverlight but did no good. Tried erasing the netflix logon in the registry; then starting WMC and re-entering Netflix logon data; still same problem. No problem logging on in IE9, however.

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Post by erkotz » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:13 am

Last time I brought this up, I was told by MS and this was Netflix's to support, not MS - not saying that is correct, but it's what I was told...
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Post by kingwr » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:35 am

one more nail!

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Post by sr22 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:52 am

Thanks for the responses. I just got off another chat with Netflix. Now they say that it is a netflix problem and that their engineering team is on it and they should have the problem fixed in a few hours... First it is Microsoft now it is Netflix.... Who knows. Why the hell do they want to kill all the best things about WMC? I'm not asking for the world, just netflix inside of WMC!

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Post by Doctor Feelgood » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:57 am

I just fired up Netflix through Win 7 MCE and all was well for me. I watched a bit of a carton my son started - and switched over to a movie for 20 minutes or so. No problem over here.

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Post by YescaMescal » Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:26 am

I'm having the same problem. Did all of the usual steps on win7 and 8. I was starting to think it was me! Hopefully netflix fixes this ASAP! Without netflix, I may as well be using *nix.

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Post by makryger » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:27 pm

Well, at least someone is trying to fix it...
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Post by liukonen@gmail.com » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:40 pm

Thank god its not just me... I started having this issue on the 18th :twisted: (along with issues with my Media center remote crashing on me :thumbdown: )... and did a complete format of the hard drive :yawn: ... Once I got it back up and running, same issue. Ill have to find a XBMC plugin to run netflix on my big screen in the mean time :think:

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Post by werds » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:15 pm

Getting me all worried!

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Post by barnabas1969 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:57 pm

Mine works fine. I'm running Win7 x64. I do not install Windows Updates, ever.
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Post by kwma01 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:09 pm

I had the same issue. I also called Netflix and they reset my password. This did no good. Netflix does work thru the browser but like everyone else this does not help me with the remote control. The people at Netflix did not have a clue and stated that it was a Microsoft problem. I agree with the earlier poster that stated that Netflix probably did something. I did not take any updates and I have four computers that had this issue at the same time.

Please post anything that may help.

Running Windows 7 X64 ultimate, home, and professional.
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Post by foxwood » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:47 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:Mine works fine. I'm running Win7 x64. I do not install Windows Updates, ever.
This happened a week after Patch Tuesday, so it's fairly obvious that it's not related to a Windows Update, unless everyone waits exactly one week before applying their updates.

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Post by sr22 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:21 pm

Doctor Feelgood wrote:I just fired up Netflix through Win 7 MCE and all was well for me. I watched a bit of a carton my son started - and switched over to a movie for 20 minutes or so. No problem over here.
Why are some still working? I agree this is not an update issue.

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Post by staknhalo » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:08 pm

Mine's been working fine since people started reporting this.

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Post by robertredd » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:41 pm

There is a thread for microsoft here that people are piling onto also:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... c0557e1ffc

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Post by Doctor Feelgood » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:11 pm

x64 for me me too - and all updates are current. Not sure what the deal is - but glad I am not impacted. The world might end if Bob the Builder and Diego could not get in to our house!

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Post by milli260876 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:15 pm

World ends in a couple of hours so I'd just chill out..... ;-)
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Post by adam1991 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:51 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:Mine works fine. I'm running Win7 x64. I do not install Windows Updates, ever.
+1

Well, not *never*. But *rarely*. And this is why.

This thing isn't a multipurpose computer. The only web work it sees is Youtube, very occasionally. Other than that, it's a DVR, plain and simple. No need for updates. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

And I've seen enough of these Netflix issues crop up over the last couple of years, the updating just worries me that much more.

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