I don't agree with this at all. Yes, having video stutter because it's changing bitrate is annoying (and is something that should be and can be fixed via software as the technology matures), I'd find it useful both (i) to dynamically adjust the quality of the image to allow streaming with worse internet connections and (ii) to be able to adjust quality to manage data usage. Unfortunately, I don't know of any streaming services that allow you to select or adjust the quality.![]()
You can manually force HD on Netflix on your computer and it will buffer when needed. Just go to any movie and Control + Shift + Option/Alt + S and a little menu will pop up.
iTunes video and audio quality blows the others out of the water. I stopped buying Blu-rays.
Surprised to see Hulu at the bottom, other than that, pretty well neck-and-neck.
Yes. a 2 point separation among the top 5 is meaningless.This might seem like a bigger deal if the total range of the scores was more than 5.
wait.. so i could uninstall silverlight right now and netflix will still work?
This might seem like a bigger deal if the total range of the scores was more than 5.
Conclusion 2:
Streaming people are happy people![]()
I saw an article on April 8, 2013 saying that Netflix announced that it would drop Silverlight, so I assumed it was gone. However, this is what I found out just now. You need Internet Explorer 11:
"With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsofts proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is bundled with Windows 8.1, supports the necessary HTML5 extensions; if youre a Firefox or Chrome user, youll continue to use the Silverlight plug-in."
Heck no, I'm not using IE.
Cant be true, I'm told that IE has the worst html5 support of all browsers...
Well that's what it says. What I'm guessing is that Netflix made some scummy deal with Microsoft and made it work only with IE's specific HTML5. Reminds me of Mega pleading for me to install Chrome.
The best thing about iTunes is that it is always full quality. There's no adapting to network conditions - it will stop and buffer if it has to. On a slow connection you always have the option of walking away and waiting for the full content to download.
Watching your video bitrate change constantly sucks. It's a really annoying "feature" of the other services.