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by benologist 3899 days ago
I think you are missing an opportunity by making this only work on macs, even with a windows release. We use http://www.adfreetime.com which is a dns server that circumvents region restrictions and the value of doing it at that level is you can put it in your router and then all your netflix devices are covered - only covering a computer just isn't representative of how we (prob. most people?) watch netflix.
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Yes, that's the trade-off here basically. The experience of browsing/searching/selecting a movie to then switch DNS is quite paintful, but works on TV. Smartflix is one-click-play, but doesn't.

But you are definitely right when saying that most people watch Netflix on TV.

Maybe you could set your software up so people can configure their router to point at the computer with your software so other devices can access it as the dns server?
There are already plenty of services offering smart DNS solutions (Unotelly, unblockus), I think I will stay in my corner with my simple click-and-play desktop app :)

But yeah, your solution would definitely work, but would be impossible to understand/setup for the non-techy users.