Saturday, January 15, 2011

Cr-48 and Netflix

Getting ready to do some dishes, thought I would throw on The Jerk to keep me distracted, so I pulled out my trusty Cr-48, loaded up netflix, logged in, and clicked on The Jerk. Imagine my surprise when I was brought to a page explaining the system requirements for viewing movies, and a message stating “Our apologies - streaming is not supported for your operating system.” I don’t know the technology they’re using to stream movies, but I figure if Hulu can manage secure streaming, why not netflix?

It's been brought to my attention that Netflix uses Silverlight for their streaming technology rather than flash, and the Cr-48 does not support Silverlight. Seems like an issue to me.

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