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Netflix & Silverlight

darkshadow0001

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Has anyone had the disadvantage of having to use the new Silverlight movie player by Microsoft with Netflix instead of their old movie player? I had to reset my computer awhile back and noticed when I went to Netflix I couldn't watch movies anymore. So I called them and asked about the situation, and they said they have a new player called Silverlight. So I had to download it and try it out, and to find out it is very choppy! I called back and they said the choppiness could be due to my resources and what's running on the background and that my drivers may need updated. I'm thinking, I already have my drivers updated I don't need this and the player is still choppy. I wish they would not have changed-- I know this player is still in BETA, but they should not have discontinued their old player until the bugs got all worked out. Also, I read on a website http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40514/122/ that Netflix laid of 50 technical employees due to this new product. I have always loved Netflix, I don't understand why they would do something like this. (Remove a good player and not even have a new, complete working one ready yet)
 
Microsoft Silverlight works perfectly well as an embedded media player even on my relatively ancient (2005) NEC laptop with a measly 2GHz Pentium and 2 Gigs of RAM. Anyway, are you certain that you have the latest version of Silverlight installed on your PC?

TGT
 
Just to clear things up, the player isn't called Silverlight. Silverlight is a product made my Microsoft which is similar to flash. It actually has gotten fairly good reviews. As for the reason for the change, it is cross system/browser support. Netflix has a fairly technical clientle, and denying firefox support and OSX support was bad for them. WIth the updateNetflix works on Firefox for Windows and Macs. Soon, Silverlight will also support Linux(through the Moonlight project), with no OS specific coding for Netflix.
 
Microsoft Silverlight works perfectly well as an embedded media player even on my relatively ancient (2005) NEC laptop with a measly 2GHz Pentium and 2 Gigs of RAM. Anyway, are you certain that you have the latest version of Silverlight installed on your PC?

TGT

I'm sure I do, it was Netflix themselves that gave me the link to download it. I have a 2.16GHz AMD Athlon PC with only 768 Megs of RAM (I know, I need to upgrade, but I'm thinking of waiting and buying a whole new PC instead). It may be the fact I don't have enough RAM or I may just have to wait until the BETA version is finished. The player seems to play ok, but I get choppiness every so often. I'll try that link you gave me and see what happens...

Edit: Yeah, I went to the link and it says I do have the latest version. It's probably because of my RAM which I think sucks, because the old player worked fine.
 
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