That I as an individual have very little leverage over ginormous corporations? And that they want to screw me? I learned those ones a long time ago.ĭarn, I said I didn't want to discuss business strategies. So I'm not quite sure what the "valuable lesson" is that I'm expected to learn. But the question as I see it is whether my refusal (and that of some other subset of Mac using Netflix subscribers) to adopt Silverlight and thus the streaming service would make enough of a dent in their overall business strategy to warrant a change in the technology they've adopted. The counter-argument is that clearly Netflix must perceive some benefit from having their subscribers stream video, else they wouldn't be offering the service at all. which means they're not particularly motivated to fix it. And since streaming video is not the primary reason I (or I'd venture to guess most people) subscribe to Netflix, I'm not about to fire Netflix over this lack. Up until now with Netflix's streaming video, the Windows version hasn't merely had "more features" but rather all the features since Macs haven't been supported at all. On the other hand, I don't see the individual Mac (or Linux, etc) user having a whole lot of leverage in this situation. I did this totally subjective, non-scientific, arbitrary, and slightly drunk comparison on the following two machines: In the silverlight player, there is no noticeable stuttering.
Netflix for mac mini movie#
On my dinosaur of a living room computer, the video for all netflix movies would stutter every few seconds or so until the movie was fully buffered. What is a big deal is the impressive drop in stuttering compared to the player in IE7. While this is half the time, it was never a big deal when compared to the convenience. On the old pentium IV machine in my livingroom, the time to play drops from about 1 minute to 25 seconds. Video quality is indistinguishable in terms of clarity, but I noticed much less stuttering in the silverlight player. In IE7 it will take between 30 seconds 45 seconds. Under Firefox it is consistently 15 seconds from clicking "play" while browsing instant-watch to the actual start of the video. The performance difference is fairly pronounced on my relatively new laptop.
The player loads and buffers much quicker than the player in IE7- allowing for much faster skipping forwards and backwards on the old P-IV in my living room.
Netflix for mac mini full#
Obviously that selection is limited in that it does not encompass the entire Netflix library- that would be infeasible regardless of the player being used.Īs far as I can tell, the beta allows access to the full instant watch selection that IE users would see.
It doesn't seem to differ from the normal instant watch selection.
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