NexStreaming announced today the release of NexPlayer HTML5, an HLS/DASH streaming player that enables the highest video quality across all browsers.

Proposed web standard would allow copy protection on HTML5 video, but is it ‘unethical?’ A new HTML content protection proposal has met with criticism from developers at Google and Mozilla.

"We are midway through switching to native HTML5 streaming for our laptop players, eliminating downloads (of Silverlight)," say executives in Netflix's third quarter investor letter.

Due to eroding support for browser plug-ins, Netflix is making plans to move its streaming service from Silverlight over to the emerging HTML5 video format. The movie-streaming service has used ...