1385031 - 1080hp in netflix not offered

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, enhancement)

Description

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

This was sparked from a few questions:
One specifically: https://www.facebook.com/Firefox/posts/10159095749830022

It asks why Firefox only is offered 720 for fast internet connections when streaming netflix on Windows 7. 

Tested on Windows 7 32bit and Firefox 64bit and the highest offering, even paying for the HD service it never goes up tot the 1080p in the office environments with 300 Mbps. 


Previous issues: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280141

Netflix documentation on the issue: 
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Chris might know more about the situation here.

Comment 2

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

Firefox on Windows doesn't meet Netflix's DRM robustness requirements for 1080p. Amazon Prime Video however has a different policy, and a lot of its content is streamed to Firefox in 1080p.

I don't think any evangelism we do here will be effective at influencing Netflix to change their policy, so I'm going to go ahead and close this bug.

Comment 3

[Danial Horton]

(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #2)
> Firefox on Windows doesn't meet Netflix's DRM robustness requirements for
> 1080p. Amazon Prime Video however has a different policy, and a lot of its
> content is streamed to Firefox in 1080p.
> 
> I don't think any evangelism we do here will be effective at influencing
> Netflix to change their policy, so I'm going to go ahead and close this bug.


Netflix can run 1080p on firefox using an addon, its nothing to do with drm and everything to do with nice fat cash handouts from microsoft.