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Re:Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante by avhon1 on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:52AM (#22767090)
I had a hard time digging up any numbers on this. As far as I can tell, Netflix doesn't seem to offer a breakdown of their subscribers. In 2018, Parks Associates (a market research and consulting company) estimated that 30% of Netflix subscribers were on the "Premium" tier [1], which is the only tier that offers 4K. That percentage may have gone up (with increased prevalence of 4K media and viewing devices) or down (with rising prices) since then, but 30% certainly represents a respectable fraction of Netflix's subscriber base.

[1] https://www.parksassociates.com/blog/article/fov2018-pr23

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Re:Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante by Hamuko on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:37AM (#22767601)
>30% of Netflix subscribers were on the "Premium" tier [1], which is the only tier that offers 4K.

Here the best tier is actually called the "Family" tier. Seems to suggest that the real value proposition for the 33% price increase is not 4K over 1080p, but rather being able to watch four streams at a time instead of two.

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