Comments on: Use Understudy to stream TV / Movies to your television using Front Row on a Mac

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:24:19 +0000

Rich, No need launch Safari. If you have stuff in your Netflix Instant Queue, close Safari, launch Front Row and go to > Understudy > Netflix Queue. I’ve never had a problem.

I’ve never heard of a “you’ve reached your viewing limit” error – wondering if that’s from your ISP?

By: Rich T

Rich T — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:08:15 +0000

Downloaded and installed Understudy, launched Safari, logged into to Netflix, went to my Instant Queue, launched FrontRow and tried to add my Netflix queue to Understudy Feeds via FrontRow. My Instant Queues does not show up. A bunch of other things show up, e.g., All Time Top Choices, Last Week’s Top Choices, yadie-yadie. OK I’ll try to watch something that is in All Time Top Choices to see if at least that works. Selected a couple of different flix but always get: ERROR Video Could Not Be Loaded Please ensure that you are logged into your Netflix account on Safari and that you have not reached your viewing limit. I am logged in on Safari and if I select an item from my Instant Queue it will run just fine. But nada, zip, zilch via Understudy and Front Row. I can watch YouTube with now problemo. Any hints, ideas, suggestions, anything.

Thx

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:11:30 +0000

@zb Tried that – the problem is it sleeps all monitors, not just the Macbook.

By: zb

zb — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:49 +0000

You could also shut off the display on your Macbook by pressing the key combination ctrl+shift+eject (upper right corner). This will turn the display completely black. Moving the mouse or pressing any button on the keyboard will turn it back on.

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:03:08 +0000

@joelco Ya know, I can’t tell you how stupid I feel for not thinking to turn the brightness down on the Macbook monitor, it does go totally black and makes this whole process so much easier. Article has been edited to reflect that.

By: joelco

joelco — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:17:00 +0000

Or… (now that I’m thinking more about it)
You could just close the lid so that it’s only about 1/2″ to 1″ open (and dim it too, if you want). It doesn’t turn off until it’s all the way closed.

By: joelco

joelco — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:14:48 +0000

As far as putting the display on your macbook to sleep, you should be able to just use the dimmmer button and put it all the way down (which is about 99% black) because the brightness on the TV should be separate from the computer. I don’t have the means to try it out, but I’d be really surprised if it didn’t work.

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:37:39 +0000

@ogoldberg – To the best of my knowledge, no, but I don’t own / use an Apple TV. From my understanding, Apple TV will only work with iTunes and does not have Front Row or the ability to run Front Row on it.

By: ogoldberg

ogoldberg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:32:09 +0000

Is there any way to make this work with Apple TV?