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No! Silverlight & WINE? Horrible! I would have preferred pure HTML5 solution. Btw. I just cancelled my Netflix account a few months ago and told them to have fu
by Sami_Lehtinen 14y ago
No! Silverlight & WINE? Horrible! I would have preferred pure HTML5 solution. Btw. I just cancelled my Netflix account a few months ago and told them to have fun with their MS Silverlight.
- zanny 14y agoIn Netflixes defence, they are dealing with an intrenched, politically influential, and absurdly powerful media sector that is used to monopolistic business and bleeding customers dry on their terms. Any ground netflix takes is given hesitantly, and their use of Silverlight was probably a mandate by some suits who thought Flash was too vulnerable to people taking their precious ones and zeros and saving them outside the app.
- shitlord 14y agoIt's kind of funny how dedicated they are to securely rendering the video when you can just screen capture and record whatever you are watching. It would be incredibly inefficient to do so, but I could see ways to improve and replicate this approach (like doing this on multiple computers, etc.). You will just end up with the same result.
- lucian1900 14y agoOr just download the end result that someone else has already prepared. Content providers are complete idiots.
- kokey 14y agoYup, Lovefilm was also forced to switch to Silverlight. The content providers haven't learned anything from the mistakes of the music industry. This is going to end badly for them.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoAmazon Video (who coincidentally owns Lovefilm) uses Flash and continues to do so; so I'm not entirely convinced that the studios were the major role in Loveflim's switch.
- nollidge 14y ago> This is going to end badly for them. I doubt it. They'll continue to thrive because enough people will jump through their hoops. and they'll give up juuuuust enough ground to keep people agreeable.
- MichaelGG 14y agoHow'd that work out with music and books? Amazon and iTunes became powerful players _because_ the DRM created lockin and they ended up controlling the customers. Publishers are stuck now that they gave control to Amazon and helped Kindle become a proprietary success. The video producers seem to be running along, handing over the same control to folks like Apple and Microsoft. Not a good strategy long-term, when they want to make DRM go away and sell to any old platform. By then, people will be locked in via their collections on iTunes or whatnot.
- jlgreco 14y agoI have considered taking a principled stance like you, but then I always remember that my primary linux computer probably couldn't play back netflix video even without any DRM... and I have a Roku. I would be interested in seeing a breakdown of how much of their traffic comes from PCs/Macs, and how much comes from various tablets/consoles/phones/etc. The impression I get from the people I talk to is that most people use the later these days.
- chimeracoder 14y ago> my primary linux computer probably couldn't play back netflix video even without any DRM. What? Why is that the case? Unless you have some incredibly old and/or underpowered hardware...
- jlgreco 14y agoIt's a underpowered eeepc. I have some difficulty with youtube, fullscreen youtube is impossible. If they gave me an SD stream that I could throw at mplayer, then that would work, but I don't reasonably expect them to do that just for me.
- chimeracoder 14y agoAh, I see, it's just your hardware. That's unfortunate - but then again, that's what I love about Linux... it lets me salvage even old or low-quality hardware.
- jlgreco 14y agoYup. With Linux buying a replacement laptop cheaper than my (shitty) phone works out pretty decently!