Netflix (NFLX) continues to improve its "Watch Instantly" movie/TV show streaming service, free for its nearly 9 million subscribers. The latest version -- the first that will work on Apple (AAPL) Mac ...

With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is ...

Netflix on Monday said it would abandon Microsoft’s Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions. The move will be a ...

Netflix says it will stop using Microsoft Silverlight’s technology to stream video on Windows PCs and Macs — just as soon as HTML5 video evolves to meet its needs for playing content in the browser ...

Movie-rental service plans to switch its streaming over to the emerging video format as soon as three WC3 initiatives are complete. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked ...

Netflix, which delivers more video via the Internet than anyone except YouTube, is dropping Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in technology for video delivery, moving instead to HTML5. Here’s the catch: ...

Remember Silverlight? Well, Netflix is putting Microsoft’s video playback system to good use by offering “Watch Instantly” functionality under OS X “by the end of the year.” Since “Watch Instantly” ...

LOS GATOS, Calif., October 27, 2008 – Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service, today announced it has begun the deployment of Microsoft Silverlight to enhance the ...

Netflix has been working toward transitioning away from Silverlight to HTML5, it recently indicated on its technology blog. With Silverlight's biggest customer fleeing the web-based video plug-in ...

If you're a Netflix subscriber and you use a Mac or PC for playback, then you may be aware that the service utilizes Microsoft's Silverlight plugin to bring you all that Breaking Bad and House of ...

Over the weekend, the CPO of Netflix wrote on the company blog that the delays experienced by users of the streaming service over the last few months is not Netflix's fault and instead blames the ...