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Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don’t forget terrible video quality, even compared to other streaming services.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It really is surprising how bad Netflix's quality is. I can notice it on my TV and it's only 1080p.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When Glass Onion (terrible film) came out, a friend and I started watching it on his rather good TV and it was horrible even though we had the best 4K HDR, no bandwith limitation quality Netflix offered. Like, the water in the background looked like it was playing back at at 6fps instead of 24.

After half an hour my friend noped out because the film and video quality was so bad and I finished it alone on my 15 year old 720p projector. It looked better on there…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A lot of their content is just 1080/720 up scaled to 4k and HDR graded. If it looks like crap, it’s because it is crap with a shiny 4k label.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yea but like… Glass Onion is a Netflix original… They have special requirements for cameras to be true 4K. So everything points to it being actual 4K HDR just with a bitrate so abominably low that you might as well not bother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right, their 10mbps 4k stream is a joke compared to blu-ray.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not just Bluray, even compared to other streaming services that sometimes push up to 40mbps. That’s still less than BluRay but imo enough. Heck, a well encoded 25mbps HEVC video file can look great. Sure, not as good as a 4K Bluray but better than a regular Bluray at least