Silverlight is designed for delivery of cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences inside a Web browser. It is expected that Netflix members who watch movies and TV episodes instantly on their computers will enjoy a faster, easier connection and a more robust viewing experience with Silverlight, due to the quality built directly into the player. Among the viewing enhancements with the new player is a breakthrough in timeline navigation that vastly improves the use of fast-forwarding and rewinding. The new Netflix player takes advantage of PlayReady DRM, which is built into Silverlight, for the playback of protected content on both Windows-based PCs and on Macs. That had not been possible with previous generation technologies.

Honesly, at this point, does anybody care?

I tried using Silverlight during the Olympics like most of you did I’m sure. And it was a poor experience. I’m sure a big part of that was because of NBC and the Olympic commitee, but it was still a poor experience.

I’m no DRM expert, but why can’t they do it like Hulu? Hulu offers movies that play in a flash player. Is piracy so bad they the studios are concerned someone will steal the stream? Or somehow get access to the server where the files are located and download them? Honestly?

I can get my music DRM free from Amazon. How much longer until I get big label video content the same way?

I’m not currently a netflix subscriber. Cuts had to be made. This isn’t anything that is going to make me jump back to being a customer any sooner, if at all.

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You know, if your household income is less than $100K a year, you can’t afford a $450K home.  Also, you are an idiot for not seeing that 1.4% teaser rate would go up to over 6% in 12 months.  Suckers!
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So, it’s been an interesting weekend here at el casa.  The Verizon FIOS people, for some reason, can’t take my money, so I’m without  internets, kinda.  I got a call from one of the lads teachers on Friday.  You can imagine why.  Bonus I got in a huge fight with my crazy sister yesterday.  But, at least I went to the gym this morning, made fun of the idiots with cell phones (in my mind) and yelled at people getting on the freeway at 45MPH.  Oh yea, so you know, that was me honking at you because you were doing 30 in a 45.  Sucker!