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Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android by setr on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:13AM (#22254098)
I believe the limitation being referred to is that they're bandwidth-constrained -- encoding for streaming needs to strongly favor size over quality.

Netflix needs a movie to be 500MB whereas torrents can happily be 2-8GB

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Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android by ElFitz on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:21AM (#22254411)
Or 50GB, for some torrents 4K torrents.
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