Netflix brings streaming video service to Apple Macs

Netflix brings streaming video service to Apple Macs

Netflix has announced that they are now supporting Apple Macs with their streaming video service.

They are using Microsoft Silverlight technology for this service.

The company claimed that the Silverlight technology enables them to provide breakthrough navigation for fast-forward and rewind.

The technology would however work only on Intel processor powered Apple Macs.

They are using Play Ready DRM which is supported by the Silverlight platform to provide this service on the Mac.

Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt spoke about this new development: “Silverlight with Play Ready offers a powerful and secure toolkit for delivery of dynamic streaming, which offers faster start-up, and higher quality video, adapted in real time to users’ connection speeds. 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.”