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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by givinguflac on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:39PM (#14841925)
Honestly, that just seems like a waste of time to me. Regardless of "much" higher quality, at best you're getting 480p from a DVD. I'll take acceptable quality 1080p over great quality 480p every day of the week. What's more, you're still pirating, so why not just download full quality BD rips if you're going to bother?
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by swsieber on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:11PM (#14842211)
You can get BD through Netflix's DVD program.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by veridies on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:50PM (#14851277)
Sorry for the late response. I get BDs from Netflix, not DVDs (when possible). And I'm already pushing my bandwidth to its limit at home, so it's much easier to get the BDs delivered. Also, for a lot of the films I want to see, I can't find full-quality BD copies anywhere online, only recompressed rips.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by Rebelgecko on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:43PM (#14842485)
Jeeze, I wish Netflix would stream in DVD quality for me. Their DRM hates my setup for whatever reason, so I'm stuck at a 1 or 2 mbps stream.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by fulafel on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:32PM (#14842390)
Nitpick: SD DVD is be 576p at best.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by Dylan16807 on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:17PM (#14844860)
PAL-only, and without a corresponding increase in horizontal resolution. 480p is a lot more accurate, though it's in some ways more like 400p.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by fulafel on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:45AM (#14845176)
Nitpicking intensifies: There is no PAL/NTSC in DVD as they are analog TV color encoding systems, DVD has just resolutions and frame (field) rates. So you can practically have 576p dvds in any region.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:03AM (#14845226)
At 25Hz. (plus interlacing)

Edit: Or that might be wrong and the framerate can be changed separately.

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