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Goodbye Silverlight

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Re: Goodbye Silverlight

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Post by shmerl »

regularfry wrote: post #7
shmerl wrote: post #2

> To get the same quality and security in HTML5, there is a need to implement video extensions into the players via the use of DRM encryption and JavaScript to the Netflix servers. This is completely disingenuous. DRM has nothing to do with security, and it is for sure not required to get the same quality. On the contrary, DRM always compromises security and always reduces the quality of the content (in a sense of cr…

It is required to get the same quality if the suppliers of your quality content won't give it to you without it.

Therefore it's not requried for the quality at all. They use it to oblige some perverted suppliers, instead of telling them to drop the DRM. In practice they can influence the suppliers but Netflix didn't even attempt, instead they are rushing to put DRM into HTML.

Re: Goodbye Silverlight

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Post by shmerl »

crisnoble wrote: post #3
shmerl wrote: post #2

> To get the same quality and security in HTML5, there is a need to implement video extensions into the players via the use of DRM encryption and JavaScript to the Netflix servers. This is completely disingenuous. DRM has nothing to do with security, and it is for sure not required to get the same quality. On the contrary, DRM always compromises security and always reduces the quality of the content (in a sense of cr…

I agree that DRM compromises usability. However, I don't think the author meant that DRM would needs to be there in order to help out the quality.

Usability should be viewed as a quality aspect. Reduced usability means low quality product.

Re: Goodbye Silverlight

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Post by ttrashh »

Many window users faced Silverlight quality issues themselves due to their .Net frameworks not being up to date. For the best performance, they needed to download the .Net 4.0 SDK in Windows, which is something the average Netflix customer would not be willing to do.

Silverlight doesn't require the .Net framework on the machine. Not sure what performance issues he is talking about but Silverlight has better streaming features and performance than flash or html5.

Re: Goodbye Silverlight

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Post by crisnoble »

shmerl wrote: post #12
crisnoble wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that DRM compromises usability. However, I don't think the author meant that DRM would needs to be there in order to help out the quality.

Usability should be viewed as a quality aspect. Reduced usability means low quality product.

Agreed. I think the author should have said "In order to satiate content owners' demands, developers will need to implement DRM. The quality of HTML5 streaming still needs work."

Re: Goodbye Silverlight

#16

Post by Gmooney »

crisnoble wrote: post #15
shmerl wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usability should be viewed as a quality aspect. Reduced usability means low quality product.

Agreed. I think the author should have said "In order to satiate content owners' demands, developers will need to implement DRM. The quality of HTML5 streaming still needs work."

Thank you. You are correct that I should have elaborated here. There definitely seems to be some confusion on my stance to DRM from the way I stated it.
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