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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: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:50PM (2 children)

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:50PM (#637224) Homepage Journal

    As a user of Netflux, Amazon Prime, Hulu and one more thing I keep forgetting, my opinion is that Netflix doesn't have a lot of good content and they hide it by giving bad rating to shows that compete with their own. That is simply unethical. I don't know why other people hate it, but that's my reason.

    I still pay for it though.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:09PM (#637249)

    I agree. The Netflix originals are not interesting to me, and the ones I've tried to watch I haven't liked. The content I used to love Netflix for - for foreign movies, classics, seasons of good tv shows - are either disappearing or already consumed.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:28PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:28PM (#637650) Journal

    I'm pretty sure Netflix doesn't rate their own videos. That's the users who are giving those ratings. Posting their own stuff on the front page is entirely reasonable. There are plenty of options to sort through and find what you want to watch. Though admittedly as the Anonymous Coward replied to you, there's only so much that's worth watching. There's a huge catalog of DVD rentals though, much better selection than you could have dreamed for when Blockbuster was around.

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