Quite a funny story was unveiled here in Las Vegas at Mix. Netflix VP of Web Engineering explained why they deployed a Silverlight-based video player. Netflix wanted to enable their MacOS customers to access their on-line video library. But because the solution worked for MacOS and Windows - and allowed them to use a solution that didn't require an installation of an application from their site, and allowed them to utilize adaptive streaming - dramatically reducing issues associated with "buffering", they've ended up standardizing on Silverlight for their video streaming. I was surprised to learn that they roll-out a new player every two weeks as they continue to try and improve the on-line experience - that's quite a short product development cycle!
How Netflix found a platform for on-line video streaming
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