PlayOn Media Server streams Netflix to PS3 / Xbox 360 today

Forget the lames waiting for a New Xbox Experience to bring Netflix streaming to the console, the latest edition of Media Mall's PlayOn Media Server beta includes Watch Instantly support right now. An update notification should be on the way to anyone already testing things out, the impatient can grab it from the website. Also streaming Hulu, CBS, YouTube, ESPN and others to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, HP MediaSmart TV or other DLNA hardware (Nintendo Wii's still on the coming-soon list) the presence of Netflix (and the recent Watch Instantly additions) gives even more reason to check it out. Since its still in beta don't be surprised to find a few issues, but considering our smooth sailing so far, the list of reservations over its $30 price tag (after the 60 day free trial period is over) is rapidly shrinking.

[jim @ Oct 2nd 2008 2:57PM]

Looks liek the site is totally offline now. kinda weird ehh?

[GGCAN @ Oct 2nd 2008 3:20PM]

It's a good media server, however, I live in Canada and only the Youtube part of Playon works for me.

All others like CBS, Netflix...tell me it isn't for people outside of the US.

So for me a $30 fee just for Youtube is not worth it.

[GGCAN @ Oct 2nd 2008 4:04PM]

It's a good media server, however, I live in Canada and only the
Youtube part of Playon works for me.

All others like CBS, Netflix...tell me it isn't for people outside of
the US.

So for me a $30 fee just for Youtube is not worth it.

[Dorian @ Oct 2nd 2008 7:58PM]

uploaded it for anyone who wants to try... if anyone works out how to get it to work under vmware fusion, let me know please!

http://rapidshare.com/files/150396567/PlayOnSetup.2.58.3190.exe

[Joe @ Oct 2nd 2008 8:41PM]

Thanks for putting it up for everyone! I'm downloading now.

[Jim @ Oct 12th 2008 3:12PM]

I have PlayOn working with VMWare Fusion 2.

- Change your network settings for VMWare to Bridge (this did not work for me in VMWare Fusion 1, but version 2 works great)

That's it. Should work now. Running latest version of Playon and VMWare Fusion 2 in bridge mode with no problems. Works great!

[strrlvr @ Oct 2nd 2008 9:59PM]

Thanks for putting the file up for download!

[strrlvr @ Oct 2nd 2008 10:07PM]

Now if only I could have gotten my Username and Registration key before the site went down!

[jhutchinson4 @ Oct 4th 2008 9:42AM]

Seriously, has anyone been able to stream Netflix or HULU to a ps3 yet? I would by this program in a second (I was planing to spend over 3 times as much on a ROKU box) if I get just get Netflix to work. So far, I haven't had any luck or heard of anyone else having any luck. I keep getting "The folder could not be accessed. This Content may have been deleted from the media server" every time I try it. I sent the error message to mediamall, but still haven't received a response yet. Anyone else having this problem?

[siltnpepe @ Oct 15th 2008 2:24AM]

I keep getting a corrupted data error message no matter where I'm getting content from. Does anyone have any ideas on this? (ps3)

[sizzlebox @ Oct 28th 2008 12:12AM]

super cool... couldn't believe it worked so well!

even on Parallels-WinXP

[TheWindowsFix.com @ Nov 3rd 2008 11:16PM]

Wow, it seriously works amazingly well. Thanks Engadget. Once I heard about the 360 streaming, I did my research(google) and round this post. Once again, you come through.