Watch Netflix Movies and Shows on MAC

Hold-off your celebration for a while; Netflix has made their shows and movies available to MAC users, with restrictions.

In an excerpt of Netflix system compatibility information from their website:

“Apple does not license their DRM solution to third parties, which has made this more difficult, but we are working with the studios and content owners to gain approval for other solutions. As soon as a studio-approved DRM for the Mac is available to us, whether from Apple or another source, we will move quickly to provide a movie viewer that enables you to watch movies from Netflix instantly on your Mac.”

The information is because Netflix shows are using Microsoft's Silverlight technology and would only run on Intel-based MACs. Both Microsoft and Netflix are pushing their products relentlessly which includes running streaming movies to XBox and Samsung Blu-Ray DVD players.

Microsoft is clearly making progress with Silverlight after they have streamed the recent U.S. Olympics and now Netflix. I think it would be a couple more years before they get head-on with Adobe Flash. Two years may be long in a fast paced industry; but not when you take into account Flash dominance in the last decade.

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