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Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users

Posted by kdawson on from the instant-grats dept.

CNet is reporting that Netflix has opened up its "Watch Instantly" feature to Mac users (here is Netflix's blog entry). They accomplished this by using Microsoft's Silverlight technology on both platforms, abandoning the Windows Media Player solution that had been employed in the first, Windows-only, version. Silverlight's DRM capabilities meet Netflix's needs, apparently. Netflix warns that this is beta software. Mac users can opt in here, then watch instantly with Safari or Firefox 2+, with the Silverlight plugin in place. Movie selection is somewhat limited.

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  1. Ski into a spruce! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Niggers love my big sphinx of quartz.

  2. No DRM for me, bye bye! by mmu_man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah it's funny how they switch from a crappy proprietary solution, to yet another, even heavier.
    No silverlight here, has it been ported to BeOS yet ? What about *BSD, AROS, Haiku ?

    I still can't understand why one needs a whole VM to play a video, be it flash or whatever. There is absolutely no point... Damn, "the net was so much better, simpler before". They wouldn't have any problem using the EMBED tag if they didn't insist on using DRM. And this works on all platform, using whatever player is installed, instead of enforcing an ugly and slooooow player on everyone that doesn't always work.
    http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_I_banned_flash.png
    http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_flash_sux_even_on_linux.png

    And I've yet to find someone who can show me formal proof of work of DRMs. They are inherently ... http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

  3. Re:hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, you would probably be interested to learn that for example imeem is written in C# to be able to run it on both Windows and Linux. Silverlight in my, albeit biased, opinion, is much cleaner and neater than flash. Or WM solution for this case, obviously... MS has too much stigma for what it USED TO do, or what it still does but to significantly lesser extent

  4. Re:Firefox FTW by XLR8DST8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i once got busy in a burger king bathroom..

  5. Re:Firefox FTW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean you once got busy in a BLEEP bathroom.

  6. Morro Rock by WK2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did it at Morro Rock. It was the middle of the night, and my girlfriend kept getting scared every time a car turned around in the parking lot, because their headlights would shine on us for a split second. Good times.

    --
    Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
    1. Re:Morro Rock by TiberSeptm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Haha, wow- I never expected my poorly worded sentence to spawn such a long list of amusing replies. There's something to be said for the misuse of the English language- unfortunately it's probably not said very well.