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Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir... by archagon on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:58PM (#13970627)
I recently spent two frustrating hours trying to get my Amazon rental to play in HD. Their player is atrocious!

(Eventually, I got it to work in Safari... somehow. Chrome wouldn't do it, and there was no feedback as to why.)

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Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir... by kn0where on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:40PM (#13973029)
Possibly related to how Netflix streams in Chrome are 720p because Chrome doesn't support a certain level of DRM crap that Safari and Edge do?
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Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir... by archagon on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:45PM (#13973049)
It wasn't even 720p — it just stayed in SD for no reason! Mousing over the greyed out HD icon provided no information. Also, I had to fast-forward to the end of the movie on my laptop because it couldn't tell when I was switching to my iPad and vice versa.

Meanwhile, Netflix works consistently on all my systems with no issues.

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