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Watching instantly on your computer not supported for your operating system.

Asked by supernoobile

Watching instantly on your computer

Our apologies — instant watching is not supported for your operating system.

Note that your current Internet browser is fully compatible with adding titles to the Instant Queue for later watching on compatible devices.
Complete System Requirements

To watch instantly, you'll need a computer that meets the following minimum requirements:

    * Windows
          o Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Vista
          o Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher; or Firefox 2 or higher
          o 1.2 GHz processor
          o 512 MB RAM
    * Mac
          o An Intel-based Mac with OS 10.4.8 or later
          o Safari 3 or higher; or Firefox 2 or higher
          o 1 GB RAM
I'm using firefox 3 so how do i fix this ... i like to watch netflix.

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supernoobile (quicksilver103) said : 		#1

When trying to watch netflix play now feed. I am pretty darn sure I meet all the req's 2x over. OOps, no linux mentioned I guess Netflix is picky?? I always thought the browser is the portal for video feed, with the proper decoder.

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Best Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#2

Unfortunately, the Netflix instant viewing will not work in Ubuntu or Linux in general at the moment. This may change in the future however. As far as I know, the new Netflix Player relies on Silverlight 2.0. The open source replacement to silverlight, named moonlight, is currently developing their 2.0 release. However, even after this is done there is no guarantee that the service will work in Ubuntu.

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supernoobile (quicksilver103) said : 		#3

Thankyou for speedy answer. I consider this solved thanx again.

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jacquiline (jperry291) said : 		#4

When I tried to get the play now I was ask to download moonlight but I can not find it in the ubuntu software center. can i check to see if it was downloaded?