Comments on: Press Play: Netflix arrives on the $249 Samsung Chromebook

By: Justin Z. Jovic

Justin Z. Jovic — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:52:26 +0000

Cant someone just hack this into Ubuntu? Is it a matter of a special brower ID string?

By: phani

phani — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:42:32 +0000

Yes.. may not be soon but there is nothing preventing it anymore

By: Adam Greenblum

Adam Greenblum — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:49:37 +0000

There goes another complaint about Chromebooks (lack of Netflix support) that Google has addressed. It just shows how serious they are about making the Chromebook a success.

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By: ncron23

ncron23 — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:51:07 +0000

Does this also mean Netflix for Linux?

By: ellett

ellett — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:52:51 +0000

This not only means Netflix will play on the ARM Chromebook, it means that Netflix can rewrite their code on Windows to eliminate Silverlight, which is a direction that conforms to Microsoft’s statement of direction that they will be moving away from Silverlight and toward HTML5.

By: ellett

ellett — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:48:52 +0000

Technical info here:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html

By: ellett

ellett — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:47:47 +0000

A new API.

By: Jack Murphy

Jack Murphy — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:44:25 +0000

Any idea what the DRM solution was?

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:44:28 +0000

Ah, that explains the comment from Google then. Makes sense: thanks Lucian!

By: Lucian Armasu

Lucian Armasu — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:42:59 +0000

Microsoft didn’t “help out” to get Netflix on ChromeOS. They collaborated with Google and Netflix to create the DRM for HTML5…and through HTML5 video with DRM, Netflix is now able to play on any browser that has implemented that HTML5 DRM (regardless of the OS underneath). The fact that that Netflix is now able to work on ChromeOS is just a consequence of having DRM on HTML5 video.