I suspect Netflix used Covid as an excuse to drop the bitrate, and then never actually put it back up again.
If you're a pirate, you can tell how rubbish their 4K content is just from the file sizes.
The other problem is that many streaming services use adaptive bitrates, which are often overly sensitive to network fluctuations and preemptively tank your stream's bitrate unnecessarily.
Yeah from a customer perspective buffering is the worst thing in the world, low quality is normal. For snobs like us we'd rather have 5 min of buffering if it means a perfect picture. (No sarcasm, I am a snob when it comes to quality)
I hate buffering too, the difference is my solution is to plan ahead and have the entire film ready in advance.
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Whenever I want to record something, like the Olympic opening ceremonies, I prefer to capture the terrestrial ATSC digital broadcast rather than capture it from the cable operator, because my cable operator always crunches the bitrate and it looks way worse.
In NYC my parents cable looks horrible. I can see the blocks and color banding and they have a decent TV with Sony's amazing processing.
You can achieve 4K streaming from your own computer with Plex/Jellyfin. Unfortunately you’re right about streaming clarity but it doesn’t matter much of people watch on their phones with subtitles or they watch it as a second screen while scrolling.
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