question of the day: What button would you add to your TV remote control?

It sounds like something out of the Onion, but apparently it’s real: TV manufacturers have agreed to add a Netflix button to their remote controls. From Social Times:

As if Netflix hadn’t already made watching movies easy enough. First they eliminated the process of leaving your property to rent a new movie — just go to the mailbox and pick up your DVD. Next they made it so you didn’t have to leave the room — watch instantly streamed movies online. Now Netflix has put a button on your remote, so that instead of having to switch from the TV remote to the Blu-ray or Roku remote, the viewer can simply press the big red button that says Netflix.

Netflix announced today, January 4, that most of the world’s largest remote manufactures have agreed to add a Netflix button to their latest models of remotes. The Netflix button will allow viewers to have one click access to their instant queue. The manufactures that have agreed to produce remotes with a Netflix button by this spring include: Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, Best Buy’s brand Dynex, Haier, as well as Memorex.