[emptythought]

Another thing worth noting is that they still support basically every piece of hardware they ever did. Think built in apps on old smart TVs or early blu-ray decks that haven't been patched in YEARS, devices from before 2009~ even.

You can still watch netflix on an original Wii. That hasn't gotten any OS or software patches since like 2011. That's a long tail of legacy clients to have to deal with.

[LocalH]

For the record, the official Netflix client for PS2 (only legitimately released in some South American countries) was discontinued and is unsupported. I'm guessing they moved exclusively to H.264 at some point (no idea what codec they served prior to that point, but to be playable on the PS2 it would have either had to be MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP/Xvid)

[toast0]

Given that streaming is basically competing with discs, it makes sense not to drop any devices ever; a DVD produced today is expected to work on a DVD player from however long ago, provided it's still operational.