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Re:Netflix: Love is sharing a password (2017) by FullyFunctional on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:15PM (#33295074)
I'd love it if we could just go back to the sane convention that calls a spade a spade. Eg, it's 120 V and 240 V, not "standard-volt" and "super-volt". USB is participial farcical with their ever laughable naming schemes. At least Ethernet is reasonably sane.

(And don't get me started on how 4K is a blatant lie as it's really 3860-px wide. 2160p is also ok. Real 4K is a thing, but not consumer).

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Re:Netflix: Love is sharing a password (2017) by noahtallen on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:01PM (#33295292)
4k being 3860px thing doesn’t even matter. It’s still 4x the pixel count vs 1080p and looks excellent.

The real quality problem is bitrate, not raw resolution. A 1080p Blu-ray looks absolutely amazing on a 4K TV. Low-bitrate 4k looks like dogshit. I’d be ok with Netflix’s 1080p if the compression wasn’t so poor on some titles!

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