Netflix, the online movie rental service, is launching Mac support for internet streaming movies utilizing Microsoft's Silverlight, a web-browser plug-in that features animation and audio-video capabilities similar to Adobe's Flash software. The deployment of the capabilities will start with a small number of subscribers, expanding to all subscribers by year's end. Silverlight features cross-platform and cross-browser support, as well as Play Ready DRM, a pivotal factor in Netflix being able to stream copy-write-protected content to subscribers on both Macs and PCs.
Mac-based customers and Firefox users on both platforms were key to Netflix adopting Silverlight. Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt said, "Members who enjoy watching movies and TV episodes... 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." Netflix streaming via Silverlight will require Intel-based Macs, and work with Safari and Firefox.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
News Junkies Rejoice: Livestation comes to the Mac
Online television streaming service Livestation has launched a Mac client, bringing free streaming news television to Apple fans.
P2P powered Livestation launched last year as a streaming television platform that offered legal feeds from news services such as the BBC, later adding additional channels including Russia Today, Al Jazeera English, Euronews and France 24. Livestation took their platform further by turning the service into an open streaming platform, allowing users to add their own streams to the player, and for those streams to be shared across the network, for example CNN, NASA TV and Bloomberg are now quickly available from the platform, along with hundreds of other live stream stations.
Upfront there’s nothing remarkable about the Mac client; like the Windows client each channel includes a chat room, and you can search for feeds among user contributions, but where Livestation excels is in a full screen view, where compared to internet streams it offers a rich, nearly perfect television like quality on its officially supported channels.
You can download the Mac or Windows client here.
P2P powered Livestation launched last year as a streaming television platform that offered legal feeds from news services such as the BBC, later adding additional channels including Russia Today, Al Jazeera English, Euronews and France 24. Livestation took their platform further by turning the service into an open streaming platform, allowing users to add their own streams to the player, and for those streams to be shared across the network, for example CNN, NASA TV and Bloomberg are now quickly available from the platform, along with hundreds of other live stream stations.
Upfront there’s nothing remarkable about the Mac client; like the Windows client each channel includes a chat room, and you can search for feeds among user contributions, but where Livestation excels is in a full screen view, where compared to internet streams it offers a rich, nearly perfect television like quality on its officially supported channels.
You can download the Mac or Windows client here.
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