Netflix Using HTML5 Video For ARM Chromebook

sfcrazy writes "Netflix is using HTML5 video streaming instead of using Microsoft's Silverlight on Chromebooks (which now supports DRM for HTML5). Recently Google enabled the much controversial DRM support for HTML5 in Chrome OS to bring services like Netflix to Chromebooks using HTML5." Still no word on general support for GNU/Linux, but x86 or ARM, what's the difference? (If you're ok with DRM at least.)

Re:Don't say "no" ; say "yes, but..."

[fyngyrz]

Yes. Everybody wins. Except consumers, who can't record it, can't excerpt it for fair use, can't back it up, can't move it to a later media format, and so will lose their investment eventually either because the media is obsolete or because the media the content is provided on has gone bad.

So, yeah, absolutely, everybody wins.

Not.

Re:HTML5 with DRM, or Silverlight...

[pipatron]

How about [x] None of the above, and keep downloading movies until they start using a closed, non-intrusive system?

Re:How's it work on Android?

[jedidiah]

You keep on repeating that but it still doesn't make any more sense no matter how much you repeat it.

Your typical PC or Mac doesn't require such things. Why should an OS running another form factor?

An appliance being a pretty locked down and highly controlled environment actually needs LESS "extra special hardware DRM support" than a PC.

and if you're not

[tepples]

If you're not OK with DRM, then you're not OK with motion pictures published by Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, or Warner.

Re:Don't say "no" ; say "yes, but..."

[jedidiah]

I can live with DRM for a rental service. I am more interested in features, performance, and usability. There are other reasons I would complain about Netflix before getting into the DRM.

Purchases on the other hand are an entirely different kettle of fish.

Re:if you're ok with DRM

[Zibodiz]

If you're not okay with DRM, then you probably don't care about Netflix, as it's entirely based on the concept of you not owning any of the content they provide to you. So what does it matter? DRM isn't cool, but Netflix is a creature that lives entirely inside the DRM-isphere, so if you want Netflix, you're gonna get DRM. Just be happy when it shows up in Linux, regardless of rights management.

Re:Risk of being sued for copyright infringement

[fredprado]

Yet!

Sonny Bono

[tepples]

You know... delayed gratification

Except the U.S. Congress keeps extending this delay. It's already well over a decade past the human life expectancy.

Re:if you're ok with DRM

[TheRaven64]

I'm not okay with DRM, but I do use a Netflix competitor for DVD rentals and I'd like a streaming service. I fail to understand why the same company will send me DVDs, which are trivial for someone to rip and post online, but insists on trying to lock down their lower quality online streams. DRM does nothing to protect against unauthorised copying, because everything in their catalogue is already available for illicit downloads in a variety of places, but does mean that I can't use their service on my tablet or on the computer connected to my projector.