Trying to watch netflix movies and getting an error code of 6003: silverlight does not seem to be working.

Anonymous
2010-09-22T01:34:51+00:00

I talked to a netflix technical assistant tonight and he tried to help me with this problem, but was unsuccessful.  The error code I receive from Netflix is N8156-6003.  He walked me through many different procedures to fix the problem and nothing seems to be working.  He even directed me to try tinyurl.com/netflixsl and after the individualizing it goes to opening and stays there.  My laptop is on 8 months old and is not used very often, not sure what the issue is, Netflix seems to think it is a problem with microsoft, please help.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2010-09-24T22:10:59+00:00

Hello, Nea5577

After loading the page to watch a video, right click the applet, then click Silverlight.

On the Playback tab ensure that the “Enable download...” option is selected.

On the Application Storage tab, click Delete all to clear any cached files.


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  1. Anonymous
    2010-09-22T16:17:10+00:00

    "Run your browser as an Administrator. Open Netflix, start watching a movie. Once it successfully starts playing, you can close your browser and then resume watching whatever you’d like to watch"

    http://www.coffeepowered.net/

    Does it help?


    S.Sengupta Media Center MVP

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-09-24T02:21:30+00:00

    Tried this and still not working.  Keep getting the same message.  Message says that their is a problem playing protected DRM content on your system.  Then it tells me to close browser and reopen and try again.  Still does not work.  After that it says to call netflix tech assistance.  Well I did that and they tried their solutions and were not able to help.  Don't know what else to do, we have a desktop that is at least 5 years old and the movies are playing on it, why not the laptop.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-09-24T02:59:34+00:00

    I am getting so frustrated with this.  I have even uninstalled silverlight 4 and replaced it with silverlight 3 and it still does not work.  What is going on?

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-24T03:51:31+00:00

    I am getting this same error.  I tried the options suggested above, but it still is not working.

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