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Netflix planning streaming video support for Mac
Sure, Apple may have launched digital movie rentals from the iTunes Store, but Netflix lets you watch videos for free. Well, free if you happen to already have a monthly subscription for their DVD-by-mail service. But while iTunes videos play on a Mac, PC, or Apple TV set top box, right now you can only watch Netflix videos on a PC. That's because the company uses Windows Media DRM to keep you from saving a copy of the streaming videos.But Netflix is working on a Mac compatible version of its online video service. Silicon Alley Insider reports that during the company's recent earnings call, Netflix announced that Mac support could be coming sometime in 2008. Of course, there's a good 11 months and a few days left in 2008. And since Netflix didn't offer specifics, we're going to go out on a limb and say you might not see Mac support until leaves have grown on the trees and then started to change color. But we'd love to be proven wrong.
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James said 11:26AM on 1-25-2008
Bring this to my PS3 or 360 and I will be a lifetime subscriber starting day 1. Until then... well, it's still tempting, but it's a bit of a pain having to hook up my PC to my TV.
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Tush said 3:19PM on 1-25-2008
Linux, please.
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geof said 12:06AM on 2-04-2008
Hey Netflix,
if you are going to make a mac viewer you should also be thinking long term and make it viewable on all consoles and handhelds. you will get more market share.
more doors and less walls make a great company :)
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