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They use HTTP Live Streaming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming) which is Apple's own protocol and hasn't been adopted by anyone but Microsoft.

To be fair, when they first implemented it MPEG DASH was a long way off.

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HLS is used in plenty of places outside Apple and Microsoft. For example, Twitch.tv uses it in their HTML5 player which works in all modern browsers.

If you paste the playlist URL from another subthread into an open-source HTML5 player [1], it works perfectly. There's literally no reason that Apple couldn't embed this on their home page except stubbornness.

[1]: http://dailymotion.github.io/hls.js/demo/

For those looking for the link to copy:

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1603kjbnadc...

I believe it's also in fairly heavy use by Roku, as a supported technology that third party channels can use to provide a better streaming experience.

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