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Re:Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years by rr808 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:07PM (#35620180)
A whole DVD only stores 4.7 gb, so a 5 gbps network is well fast enough. Maybe depends on your hardware. Netflix you need the top plan to get 4k streaming though.
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Re:Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years by MichaelZuo on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:14PM (#35620293)
A 4K blu-ray film is usually over 80 GB in disc quality.
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Re:Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years by sgt on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:53PM (#35620857)
It's not whether Gbps is fast enough, it's that the egress traffic for the streaming provider costs a lot of money, and they do everything they can to serve 1080p or 4k content that is actually much lower in quality than what we expect.

A lot of scenes look very impressive until you start seeing artifacts and hearing poor sound.

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