Netflix Ditches Silverlight For HTML5 On Macs

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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:13AM from the giving-up-freedom-for-tv dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Netflix yesterday furthered its plans to ditch Silverlight for HTML5 on Macs, having already done so last year in IE11 on Windows 8.1. HTML5 video is now supported by Netflix in Safari on OS X Yosemite, meaning you can stream your favorite movies and TV shows without having to install any plugins." Courtesy of encrypted media extensions.

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They've been doing this for a year (Score:4, Interesting)

by Chrisq ( 894406 ) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:16AM (#47164011)

They've been doing this for a year on Chrome OS [netflix.com]

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Re:Linux soon? (Score:4, Interesting)

by sanosuke001 ( 640243 ) writes: on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:24AM (#47164071)

Can't you just get a browser-id-changing-plugin and tell it you're using mac? I didn't RTFA and don't know what it does under the hood but if its just a "turn it on for this OS" and no other special installable bit, it should work?

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