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Re:Plasma Bigscreen by jbay808 on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:44AM (#32864419)
I purchased DUNE on YouTube. Turns out even after paying full price, the image quality is limited to 480P unless you watch via a smart TV.

To prevent piracy, or something.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen by matheusmoreira on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:32AM (#32865247)
Even worse is the fact that they sacrifice quality for bandwidth. Even if you manage to meet all their silly DRM requirements, you get poor quality video that's high definition in name only. There are titles in Netflix that have compression artifacts in 90% black frames.

Meanwhile pirates enjoy Blu-Ray rips encoded by people known for taking pride in providing the highest possible quality.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen by ChuckNorris89 on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:51AM (#32864450)
Are you watching YouTube on Linux by any chance? AFAIK modern versions of chrome and FF should not have this issue even on Linux but I could be wrong as I'm out of the loop on modern DRM.
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Re:Plasma Bigscreen by jbay808 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:46PM (#32882355)
On Windows, actually.
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