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Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android by willis936 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:52AM (#22255606)
Does 4K Netflix target 50 Mbps? Blu-ray does. While lossy compression performance is a deep and incomplete field, more bits always helps. That requires more storage on servers and more throughput. There needs to be a “good enough” point and the hosts will glue themselves to it. If it moves up over time then they will have to update their library where high quality sources are available.
Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android by protanopia on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:34PM (#22259454)
Netflix recomends a 25 Mbps download speed to watch UHD but according to some redditor it is actually at 15.6[1].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/5lc2nl/what_bitrat...