Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by bagels on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:32PM
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Your isp may be throttling bandwidth for Netflix, leading to lower quality encodings being served to you. Comcast does this, for instance.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by jedberg on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:18PM
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Are you getting the best Netflix encodings? You might be getting worse quality because your ISP throttles Netflix.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by bmurphy1976 on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:59PM
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For anybody looking at this after-the-fact, I'm not making it up. Netflix really does look like shit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32553958
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by mkmk on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:06PM
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Do you think it's worth it to pay the extra $5-10/month for premium quality? https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by bradstewart on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:33PM
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Even the Premium 4k streams have surprisingly low bitrates and, occasionally, framerates. I dug out the blu-ray player the other day and was absolutely shocked how good things looked and, even more so, sounded--the audio quality from Netflix (and most streaming services, really) is simply atrocious.
I've done a lot of video processing professionally (the server side stuff, exactly what Netflix does) and Netflix is by far the worst of all the streaming providers. They absolutely sacrifice the quality of the video to save bandwidth costs in aggregate and it shows (or more accurately it doesn't show, all the fidelity is lost).