[Aissen]

> nobody seems to challenge our Netflix results:

Of course, this is Lotus vs Office all over again. You're using the OS advantage (Windows 10 and its DRM platform) to show that you can do things more efficiently.

You chose the technology platform (I'm guessing Play Ready), you forced GPU vendors to comply, and now you give competitors a bad reputation for daring to use their own (or a competitor's) technology.

[rkangel]

Or, to put it another way: the have built a well integrated technology stack and are now demonstrating that it has superior performance on a metric we all care about.

Apple has a different approach (own the entire stack) but they're going for the same thing and it has made them a lot of cash.

[Tloewald]

Netflix is a rather specific example — don't they use Silverlight (as in "the only site anyone in the world cares about that uses Silverlight"?)

It's like Apple stressing how well their browser works on -- oh wait, Apple doesn't produce a proprietary plugin. Well, let's say the iTunes page, if it were specifically tuned to work well in Safari.

[ascagnel_]

Edge and Safari run Netflix under HTML5's protected media path. Silverlight is only used for backwards compatibility.