Now that the revamped Netflix interface has hit phones and tablets for both Apple and Android powered hardware, the service has quietly enabled something else: second screen remote control. Currently the feature is only known to work on the PlayStation 3 with a mobile device on the same local network, once the two apps are running you can browse as normal on your phone or tablet and when you go to play a movie or TV show it asks you to choose where it will play. While the video is playing you can stop, pause or seek through it to a certain point, change the audio or subtitles, choose a different episode or even browse for something entirely different without stopping the action. We’ve got a few screens of the mobile apps at work in the gallery, check after the break for a quick video of it working.
Gallery: Netflix second screen remote
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Netflix iOS and Android apps have a remote control easter egg for PS3 owners originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:23:00 EST.
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