By Philip Churchill on June 30th, 2009
Watch Netflix, Hulu, ESPN and more via WHS
By installing the PlayOn Media Server onto your Windows Home Server (Service Pack 1 or later) you are then able to watch Netflix, Hulu, CBS, YouTube, CNN, ESPN and Revision3 amongst others on your PS3, Xbox 360, HP MediaSmart TV, Popcorn Hour or other UPnP/DLNA compliant device.
This is all done via the PlayOn software pulling RSS feeds from the content providers and then presenting them to your DLNA-compliant networked media devices. So how do we use it?
- You first have to install Windows Media Player 11 onto WHS and then disable Internet Explorers enhanced security configuration.
- Once complete you can then install the PlayOn Media Server onto WHS by using Remote Desktop.
- The PlayOn interface will then appear on your UPnP/DLNA device – Simple!
The software is free and fully functional for 14 days although after this, a one-time $39.99 licensing fee is required.
Please note that channels like Hulu and CBS, geographically restrict their viewers to within the United States.
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Ok – do you know if I install this on my WHS, can a remote PC stream Hulu, Youtube, etc. to my TV? The remote PC is running XP, but I could change that if necessary.
Anyone notice that Playon now has a minimum requirement of wmp9. Any benefit to rolling back to wmp10 for whs?
I Have been using Playon from mediamall for over a year it has allowed me to cancel my cable and in return save over 1800 dollars i use a script called TV channels live that I downloaded from playonmonkeys.I just setup a windows server 2008 and it works great