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The only thing keeping silverlight alive is Netflix. I wonder why they use it in first place.
by zapdrive 14y ago
The only thing keeping silverlight alive is Netflix. I wonder why they use it in first place.
- aidos 14y agoThey use it for the DRM. In their case it's a necessary evil.
- ttrashh 14y agoDRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework
- 46Bit 14y agoI have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.
- adrr 14y agoSilverlight can enforce protected streams to the output devices. I couldn't play netflix streaming movies on my old monitor since it didn't support HDCP.
- rythie 14y agoSome sort of deal with Microsoft I would assume.
- fakeer 14y ago.NET. Almost everybody uses some version of Windows or other and so .NET is there more or less.