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silverlight supports a DRM implementation that the Studio's are happy with.

The alternative would be flash (which is a steaming pile of shit for osx and linux) and DRM for flash is shockingly expensive.

With silverlight, I can watch a 720p video on my mbp and use less than one core. I can not say the same for flash.

> With silverlight, I can watch a 720p video on my mbp and use less than one core. I can not say the same for flash.

A 720p video from Netflix? That definitely wasn't the case for me last time I tried, maybe 2 months ago.

edit: to clarify, it's not even possible to stream 720p from Netflix on a Mac, regardless of how many cores it might take.

OK, that's a lot nicer than it used to look. Apparently they enabled that in May.

I'm still not happy about needing to install Silverlight, but at least the quality is now comparable to what I get on my Xbox 360 and PS3.