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Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-news-for-linux-users dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Netflix 1080p is a new browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox (a fork). It should work in other browsers that support Chrome's extensions system.

The extension enables support for 1080p on Netflix in the browsers. Netflix customers can use Chrome or Firefox, on any supported operating system, to watch streams in 1080p using those browsers.

This overrides Netflix's -- seemingly artifical -- streaming quality limitation. The extension is especially useful for Linux users as it unlocks 1080p video streams on Netflix on Linux machines since that is not supported officially by Netflix.

Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/12/watch-netflix-in-1080p-on-linux-and-unsupported-browsers/

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:48PM (4 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:48PM (#637223)

    Netflix doesn't hate you, Netflix loves your monthly subscription fees - as long as you're willing to pay fees that give them a tidy profit margin above their cost of licensing/production. Judging by the amount of content that Netflix is producing these days (putting them in the 0 license fee per view column), they love their customers a lot.

    Now, do they care what their customers think, want, or feel? Why would they? Is there a serious (legal) competitor out there?

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:56PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:56PM (#637227) Journal

    And they make more money when people watch the content they produce.

    So yes, they care, because Capitalism.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:57PM (1 child)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:57PM (#637244)

      I'd argue that they only care when you stop subscribing. So, like Comcast, you may hate their guts, but if you don't hate their guts enough to pull the plug on the monthly transfer of funds, then "caring" isn't really important to their bottom line.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:08PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:08PM (#637326) Journal

        I'd argue that they only care when you stop subscribing.

        Maybe I wasn't clear... My point was that their original content is a one-time cost whereas licensing content is a perpetual cost.

        They "care" in that it's cheaper for them if a customer watches original content vs. licensed content.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:43AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:43AM (#637559)

    Is there a serious (legal) competitor out there?

    Here in the UK, there are two: Amazon Prime Video, and Sky's Now TV. [nowtv.com]