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		staunch on Sept 3, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company And why are they okay with Netflix not using Silverlight on the iPad/iPhone?

elq on Sept 3, 2010 [–]

because there is no silverlight for iOS.

Silverlight was chosen LONG ago (fall 2008). It was and is FAR better than the shitty windows media player version of streaming.

Perhaps netflix has found other methods of DRM that the studios approve of since fall 2008?

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