No one is bringing a raw Blu-Ray signal into the back of their TV over Ethernet though— Netflix's 4K streams cap out at around 16mbps, which is a tiny fraction of that.

Well sure, cause there's not enough bandwidth :P otherwise, why not? The tv probably has a good enough decoder, just no disc drive.

Netflix streaming isn't exactly a high-bitrate movie either though.

> No one is bringing a raw Blu-Ray signal into the back of their TV over Ethernet though— Netflix's 4K streams cap out at around 16mbps, which is a tiny fraction of that.

Who cares about internet streamers? Plenty of us definitely are bringing raw Blu-Ray signals in to the back of our TV over ethernet. Disk space is cheap, transcoding is slow and lowers the quality, so when I rip my movies I just do what the pirates call a "remux" where I keep the exact same audio and video streams as are on the disc and just slap them in to a MKV container for my convenience.

It's not super common for UHD Blu-Rays to crack 100mbit/sec but the spec allows for up to 144mbit/sec. I've casually looked in to it in the past and AFAIK Gemini Man is the current leader, with regular spikes to the 120mbit/sec range and one scene transition actually violates the spec by my count, hitting over 150mbit/sec.

Okay, fair. I think that's a use case that would likely be pretty far outside of what the manufacturer would be envisioning when they spec what kind of Ethernet port to put on the TV though— from their point of view it would be purely for firmware updates, spyware, and the built in streaming apps; anything more complicated than that will be coming from an external device through the HDMI port.