I am still waiting when I can play Netflix on Linux.
Not the ideal solution, but you could try running VMWare and see how the playback is.
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
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#12I am still waiting when I can play Netflix on Linux.
You can use the netflix extension for chrome. Look in the chrome app store.
Edit: According to rglullis, this is wrong. I have left it for context. Sorry - I had read something about it, but it appears to not be true.
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#13While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers.
In the longer term, however, I fail to see how Netflix can avoid having its product turn into a commodity. Delivery of digital video to consumers will only continue to get cheaper and easier. Obviously Netflix has gotten amazing deals on bandwidth (see their recent spat with Comcast) but other the prices it pays will only continue to converge with the prices for commodity CDNs.
The only major part of Netflix's business that's resistant to commoditization is having a huge base of subscribers that allows them to cut deals directly with studios like Dreamworks. Obviously Netflix is trying to position itself as a cheaper, better middleman between consumers and content producers than the combination of cable channels and cable companies. This could be very attractive to studios in the medium-term, but ultimately why not cut out the middleman? When (not if) quick, flexible, and easy online payment comes to the internet, what's stopping Dreamworks from simply charging and delivering the movie to consumers directly?
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#14While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers. In the longer t…
It will become a commodity. That's a problem for Netflix but less of a problem for us. Netflix could still survive by offering better service or lower margins or what-have-you (isn't internet search a commodity? how does google survive?)
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#15While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers. In the longer t…
The exception to this was their movie suggestion algorithm. But lately it seems to be pointing me to their cheapest-to-consume content, not the best content given my rating history. (I say this primarily because of the prevalence of old, old movies, of which I am pretty much never a fan.)
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#17While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers. In the longer t…
The exception to this was their movie suggestion algorithm. But lately it seems to be pointing me to their cheapest-to-consume content, not the best content given my rating history. (I say this primarily because of the prevalence of old, old movies, of which I am pretty much never a fan.)
Netflix often hid high demand movies from customers on the new releases page.
They would showcase new release movies on their main webpage & in marketing, but if you actually signed in to your account & looked at the new releases section you would find those movies either hard to find or missing altogether.
I would not find it surprising that they might tweak their algorithm to direct people to lower cost content.
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#18I am still waiting when I can play Netflix on Linux.
You can use the netflix extension for chrome. Look in the chrome app store. Edit: According to rglullis, this is wrong. I have left it for context. Sorry - I had read something about it, but it appears to not be true.
I'm sorry, but I will have to call bullshit on that one.
I "installed" the app, which only took me to the website. I selected a movie and got a page showing their requirements page. It mentions "PC", Mac and Chrome OS.
No love for linux, at least not right out of the box.
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#19I am still waiting when I can play Netflix on Linux.
Amazon's instant movies play superbly on Linux.
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#20While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers. In the longer t…
Try telling that to Apple. Consumers had been downloading software off the internet for more than a decade, and along comes Apple, puts a bunch of "apps" in one place, takes a huge cut, and totally changes the industry.
Note: The iOS App Store is somewhat different, in that Apple started with a really popular hardware device, then said "if you want to make this thing useful you have to buy from us". But the Mac App Store seems to be doing pretty well too, and thats a much better comparison.