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A comment on Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player.

Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silver... by mattmaroon on Sunday March 01, 2009 @10:52PM (#499652)
The title is misleading because none of those problems cited (except lack of support for the .0001% of the population using a PPC Mac) have anything to do with Silverlight. I've seen perfectly good video in that format. The Olympics for example.

If they had the same problems with a Flash player, it wouldn't be news, nor would you have given it that linkbait title. I expect better from you nickb.

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Re: Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silver... by eli on Monday March 02, 2009 @12:59AM (#499743)
It's subjective, I suppose. I haven't done any rigorous testing, but the Silverlight player running through Firefox on my MacBook Pro seems lower quality than Firefox running the old player through a Win XP VMWare instance.
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