Netflix Watch Instantly Upgraded With Silverlight
by David
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Netflix today announces a major improvement of their Watch Instantly service, bringing improved fast-forward, rewind and other navigation features to the over 15,000 films and television shows available through their online video watching service (which is a free bonus to any standard Netflix subscription). Netflix also asserts that Silverlight brings a stronger video streaming technology to improve visual fidelity and streaming stability.
I’d like to note that it’s really easy to set up a free trial and instantly access thousands of movies and television shows within minutes of reading this sentence. You can read more about why I think more people should appreciate just how cool this service is here:
Or read a full detailed review on Watch Free Movies Online here:
Here’s the full press release straight from the horse’s mouth:
Los Gatos, CA, Oct. 27, 2008 – Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, today announced it has begun the deployment of Silverlight to enhance the instant watching component of the Netflix service and to allow subscribers for the first time to watch movies and TV episodes instantly on their Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers (Netflix On Macs).
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Silverlight is designed for delivery of cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences inside a Web browser. It is expected that Netflix members who watch movies and TV episodes instantly on their computers will enjoy a faster, easier connection and a more robust viewing experience with Silverlight, due to the quality built directly into the player.Among the viewing enhancements with the new player is a breakthrough in timeline navigation that vastly improves the use of fast-forwarding and rewinding.
Silverlight with Play Ready offers faster start-up, and higher quality video, adapted in real time to users’ connection speeds,” said Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt. “Members who enjoy watching movies and TV episodes from the growing library of choices that can be instantly streamed at Netflix will be thrilled with this next generation improvement of access and quality, on a broader range of platforms, including Intel Macs and Firefox (Netflix On Firefox).”
While there is a fierce battle to capitalize on the new trend of moving major video rental online, I have to admit I’m really impressed with Netflix’s aggressive and ambitious growth in this area compared to any of their competitors.
What do I like most about it? They continued to upgrade and improve their service and very significant and substantial ways without ever charging their customers a single extra penny.
Check ‘em out here: Netflix Free Trial
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