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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by fabian2k on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:36PM (#16729123)
The 4K quality is tied to some pretty specific hardware and drivers as far as I remember. And 1080p is also different in my experience in the Windows 10 App and in Edge. I was able to get 1080p for some content in Edge, but not everything. The only way to consistently get 1080p quality was to use the rather crappy App. The search and filter features were worse than the website in my experience, and I ran into quite a few bugs when I used it.
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by IntelMiner on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:49PM (#16729502)
The Windows 10 Netflix "app" is utterly abysmal

I had it running on my second monitor as background noise while I was working on a project

Every time I'd use Alt+Tab, the entire window would go black. Presumably as part of its inane DRM

Unfortunately, the only way to get it to work again was to close and relaunch the entire app!

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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by skrebbel on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:40PM (#16729140)
Drifting off topic, but fwiw their Windows app got a bit better lately. I think there's finally a team on it again.
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