Silverlight/WPF or HTML 5?

[d000hg]

Silverlight appears to be making something of a stand in the paid streaming video world. Netflix uses it and I'm sure one of the others (possibly NowTV) does as well. And both of these support iOS/PS3 although maybe you fundamentally can't use the same tech on PC/iOS so whether the PC version users SL or Flash is irrelevant?

[DimPrawn]

Silverlight appears to be making something of a stand in the paid streaming video world. Netflix uses it and I'm sure one of the others (possibly NowTV) does as well. And both of these support iOS/PS3 although maybe you fundamentally can't use the same tech on PC/iOS so whether the PC version users SL or Flash is irrelevant?

All they want is streaming video + DRM protection, which is what the SL video player is giving them on PC platforms.

[VectraMan]

All they want is streaming video + DRM protection, which is what the SL video player is giving them on PC platforms.

It's a shame in a lot of ways that something as powerful as Silverlight (or for that matter Flash) ends up getting used as just a video player.