{"id":171857,"date":"2016-07-14T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171857"},"modified":"2016-07-14T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:02:03","slug":"microsoft-edge-is-the-best-browser-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/171857-microsoft-edge-is-the-best-browser-for-netflix.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge is the best browser for Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to watch true 1080p content from Netflix on your PC, you need to use Microsoft\u2019s Edge browser.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3095259\/browsers\/confirmed-only-microsoft-edge-will-play-netflix-content-at-1080p-on-your-pc.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PCWorld<\/strong><\/a>, which tested Microsoft&#8217;s claim that Edge was the only browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2016\/07\/13\/get-better-quality-video-with-microsoft-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>played full HD Netflix content<\/strong><\/a> when compared to\u00a0Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other three browsers capped at 720p,&#8221; said PCWorld.<\/p>\n<p>The publication stated that Edge can receive a higher resolution and bitrate when streaming\u00a0Netflix, beating its main rival Google Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix&#8217;s help page stated that the browsers which can stream 1080p content are Edge, Internet Explorer, and Safari on Mac OS X 10.3 and up.<\/p>\n<p>The test by PCWorld follows recent tests\u00a0by Microsoft showing that\u00a0Edge is <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/169073-why-microsoft-edge-is-better-than-chrome-and-firefox.html\"><strong>more power efficient<\/strong><\/a> than\u00a0Chrome, Firefox, and Opera on Windows 10 devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft Edge<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161054-microsoft-edge-browser-to-block-flash-ads.html\">Microsoft Edge browser to block Flash ads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160218-microsoft-edge-not-getting-a-native-ad-blocker.html\">Microsoft Edge not getting a native ad blocker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to watch true 1080p content on Netflix from your PC, you need to use Microsoft\u2019s Edge browser, according to tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,30102,2054],"class_list":["post-171857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171859,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171857\/revisions\/171859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}