Comments on: Netflix: No Plans for HTML5 Video

By: YouTube Backs Flash Over HTML5 Video – for Now « WTI NewsBlog

YouTube Backs Flash Over HTML5 Video – for Now « WTI NewsBlog — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:07:19 +0000

[...] Cockcroft cited content security as one reason the DVD rental firm’s Watch Instantly service won’t be adopting HTML5 video in the near [...]

By: YouTube Backs Flash Over HTML5 Video — For Now | iPhone, iPad Weblog

YouTube Backs Flash Over HTML5 Video — For Now | iPhone, iPad Weblog — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:36:39 +0000

[...] Cockcroft cited content security as one reason the DVD rental firm’s Watch Instantly service won’t be adopting HTML5 video in the near [...]

By: YouTube Backs Flash Over HTML5 Video — For Now

YouTube Backs Flash Over HTML5 Video — For Now — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:07:10 +0000

[...] Cockcroft cited content security as one reason the DVD rental firm’s Watch Instantly service won’t be adopting HTML5 video in the near [...]

By: DrClue

DrClue — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:57:09 +0000

Actually there are (although not built-in) , fairly reasonable
ways to implement protection on video streams in the HTML5
video context that would prevent the stream from being
reasonably rendered elsewhere, even if the URL was openly
published and codecs without any DRM were used.

This is not rocket science , but simply accepting the
(it can’t be done) response from folks who would rather not
bother to do their job just means somebody else will eat that
lunch.

If I know how to do it , one can bet that others
will have it figured out soon as well.

By: Netflix le dice no al HTML5 | Blumex

Netflix le dice no al HTML5 | Blumex — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:56:34 +0000

[...] es Netflix, el servicio de renta de películas en línea que ha decidido por ahora al menos el evitar el uso de HTML5 en su plataforma básicamente debido al tema de derechos de autor, es decir según sus propias [...]

By: onecallednick

onecallednick — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:34:06 +0000

Agreed, Ray. Like I said, since I can access the same titles anyway with my netflix subscription, I don’t feel bad about torrenting things I want to watch. It’s just a pain in the neck, so mostly I don’t do it. torrents are cross-platform, so unless netflix wants to lose business to a much-less competitive product service-wise, they should make themselves cross-platform as well.

By: Ryan Lawler

Ryan Lawler — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:15:07 +0000

Nope, HTML5 is the standard used for web pages that display video in Safari.

By: george kyaw naing

george kyaw naing — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:09:56 +0000

This HTML5 being pre-mature looks like a catch 22 problem. For a spec/standard to get a user base, it needs to be immediately useful. To be immediately useful, it needs to focus on some problem manageably small, instead of being over-ambitious. From there, it needs to grow its scope.

Can anyone give me any pointer how to grow a spec/standard organically?

http://ethicminds.blogspot.com/

george

By: george kyaw naing

george kyaw naing — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:02:51 +0000

“Netflix is hardly alone in its concern over the maturity of the HTML standard, particularly as it pertains to streaming video.”

For apps, I can appreciate the value of “release early and release often.”

But for published API’s, standards, and platforms, that may not apply. As it is said in “Breaking Windows,” how quickly you adopt pre-mature technologies seperates boys from men.

http://ethicminds.blogspot.com/

george

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:04:50 +0000

The irony of the entire discussion is of course that the DRM technologies the Netflix currently relies on have already been cracked. Unfortunately, as long as the industry has to put decoders in the hand of consumer’s, this will be the norm.

A better strategy is to make content distribution convenient and reasonably priced and rely on the basic honesty on the majority of you customers.