Netflix

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Graham Todd <gct7photography at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm running MATE on 12.04 through Nota Linux, so this may not be any
> help to you if your setup is different.
>
> I notice an application (Extension) in Chromium which lets you connect
> with Netflix, and I daresay there is one in Opera too.
>
> Much as I deprecate the fact, most "paid for" services do not like the
> Linux platform as an aspect of Linux is to be able to share anything
> which appears on your computer with anything that appears on any other
> Linux box, and sharing is NOT something these "paid for" services want
> you to do.
>
> Also, the need for open coding standards allows anyone to improve the
> code, and learn from it.  Again something the "paid for" services look
> down on.
>
> It is probably the reason that Netflix makes it so difficult to use
> their service from a Linux box, and probably the least expensive way of
> doing it is to use an X-Box (either yours or a friend's), but I could
> do without one if it meant giving up Netflix.  There are many
> downloaded films as code which Linux users can run "out there" after
> all.
>
> ++Graham Todd
>


Netflix Desktop works well in linux-  uses Wine to run FF.  I use it in
Ubuntu 12.04


garyk
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