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

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 Wootery on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:42PM (1 child)

    by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:42PM (#637147)

    This overrides Netflix's -- seemingly artifical -- streaming quality limitation

    I thought that was a limitation of Chome's 'Widevine' EME implementation. Is that not the case? That said Chrome plays Google Play Video content at 1080P, [google.com] and I'm fairly sure that's also EME-protected.

    But yes, Chrome only streams Netflix up to 720P, even on Windows.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:46PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:46PM (#637152)

    Oops, I mangled my last link. Last line again:

    But yes, Chrome only streams Netflix up to 720P, even on Windows. [netflix.com]