McEntee said that Netflix originally planned to use Silverlight only to create a Mac version of its streaming player, but decided to shift entirely to Silverlight because it lets them offer a single player that works on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. "I don't anticipate we would do it until Silverlight 3 is released as a final (version)," he said. A Silverlight 3-based Netflix player would come sometime after that, he said. Silverlight 3 just entered beta, with a final release not expected until sometime before the end of the year. However, those experiencing problems will have to wait a bit. "We think we can run on a wide range of lower-end machines that we don't run (well) on today." "There was a significant improvement using Silverlight 3," McEntee said. The next version of Silverlight holds promise, McEntee said, by allowing the load to be shared by the graphics and main processors, whereas the current version puts all the strain on the CPU. In some cases, the low-end machines weren't able to keep up with the video and were dropping frames, McEntee said. McEntee told CNET News that the company went out and bought computers such as an Asus Netbook that users had said were causing problems. "There are test configurations in our lab where we are seeing an improvement," said Kevin McEntee, vice president of Web development for Netflix. Netflix said on Wednesday that the next version of Silverlight shows some promise in helping ease recent issues that some users have had while trying to stream videos on lower-end computers.
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