Netflix & IE

[brk]

If I had to guess, Netflix probably doesn't really care all that much  
about it, they have to make an attempt to enforce some sort of  
content protection if they want to be able to deliver movies in this  
manner.

I doubt that they specifically wanted to exclude any group of users,  
and I'm pretty sure this isn't a matter of "just adding" Firefox  
support.  Your letters and emails may not help the situation, but at  
least you'll feel like you did something.



On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Tech Writer wrote:

> I just discovered that Netflix is starting a new on-demand feature  
> that will allow you to watch videos from your home computer,  
> without waiting for them to arrive in the mail.  This seemed like a  
> cool concept, so I went to select a movie, but it wouldn't play on  
> my Firefox browser.  I sent a note to Netflix, and this was my reply:
>
> "Currently, this content is viewable only through Internet Explorer  
> 6 or above on PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows  
> Vista operating systems. "
>
> I've been trying to convert my "average family" to open source  
> software, starting with OpenOffice and Firefox.  However, it's hard  
> to do this when the rest of the world seems to revolve around MS  
> products.
>
> So... here's my request...  If you are a Netflix customer, and  
> think you might use this service, please send a note to  
> customerservice at netflix.com and ask them to include support for  
> Firefox in the next upgrade to "instant viewing".
>
> I apologize for using this mailing list for a non-Linux issue.   
> But, I don't think this feature will change until they realize how  
> many customers they have that use open source products.

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