pipelight gets us there. We'll never a libre solution for netflix video on linux, because now its in the W3C standard.
One would assume they'll stop supporting the Silverlight version once all the major browser vendors support the DRM.
Eh they'll likely have to keep silverlight as a fallback for at-least half a decade.
A fallback for what, exactly? Once IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari support it, that's all they care about. I think they're more likely to drop old-IE than the typical webapp.
>A fallback for what, exactly?
IE, Chrome, and Firefox users who haven't updated their browser.
IE11 only works on Windows 7/8, and OS X 10.10 is only supported by Macs up to about 5 years old. Even then, a lot of people don't actually keep their OS/browsers up to date. I expect Netflix's demographics are quite broad, and probably still quite a lot of people on XP and 5+ year old computers. There's not really any reason for them to drop support for Silverlight, they'll probably just keep new features for the HTML5 player.
Could they go with flash? I can't believe I'm asking for this, but at least that would work on Linux without much hassle (pipelight is 32bit and I don't really want to go there).