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Re:The End of Video Coding? by cpeterso on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:14PM (#17304431)
Chrome and Firefox use the same DRM (Google Widevine), so they receive the same 720p video from Netflix. Edge and Safari get 1080p because the use hardware-based DRM (Microsoft PlayReady and Apple FairPlay, respectively).
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