- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:16:56 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 3/4/12 11:10 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> Further, for "on-demand" streaming services such as Netflix, the ability >> to >> time-shift is moot, as it's an inherent quality of such a service. > > This is only true if the user can either pause or seek the stream; otherwise > there is no way to deal with interruptions during viewing. I haven't tried > Netflix streaming myself, and I can't find any good descriptions of what it > does and doesn't do, so maybe it already offers those abilities, of course. Yes, I made a distinction between on-demand streaming and other kinds of streaming that may not allow pausing/scrubbing. Netflix's time-shifting is still rather limited, though - I can't time-shift to "when I'm on the airplane, without wifi", because the DRM prevents me. ~TJ
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