2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by jetrink on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:34PM (#19585655)

Their web player has also started to have stuttering and frame dropping issues for me. It only works smoothly on Microsoft Edge, so hopefully they get it figured out before Microsoft swaps out the rendering engine for Chromium.

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Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by mrob on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:02PM (#19586453)

Most people use 60Hz monitors, which means you'll always get uneven frame-timing with 24fps content (3:2 pulldown). Modern TVs support 24Hz for 24fps Blurays so the motion looks better.

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Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by fireattack on Friday April 05, 2019 @07:10PM (#19587890)

> you'll always get uneven frame-timing with 24fps content (3:2 pulldown)

Uneven frame-timing, fo sure, but does it really use 3:2 pulldown?

IIRC the monitor, at least when using most of players on PC to playback, will just display/repeat each video frame uneven times, but no 3:2 pulldown, i.e. interlacing two frames together to generate 1 more frame every 4 frames, is involved.

I'm definitely not an expert on this topic though so please feel free to correct me!

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Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by mrob on Friday April 05, 2019 @07:29PM (#19588025)

It does not use interlacing. It seems my understanding of the term was wrong, and interlacing is required for it to count as real 3:2 pulldown.

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Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by pureliquidhw on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:06PM (#19585935)

I've noticed Netflix stuttering on Edge too. I think there is a combination of web player and compression issues happening.

The quality is really good on some titles, like the latest F1 docu-series. Others have terrible quality, like the original planet earth. Lots of stuttering and compression artifacts.

Like another commenter somewhere, I'd be happy with smooth, artifact free 1080p over 4k any day.

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Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by josteink on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:05PM (#19587038)

> Their web player has also started to have stuttering and frame dropping issues for me.

I never understood the appeal of watching Netflix in a browser?

Why let DRM infect your browser? Why not use closed media services in dedicated, closed-source apps for such things and keep your browser clean?

To date I’ve honestly never seen anyone access Netflix through a browser. It’s all native apps.

What’s the appeal?

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Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail by chinathrow on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:43PM (#19587340)

Not everyone has a TV. I used to watch Netflix on my laptop only - on Ubuntu.

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