Re:Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years
by ta1243 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:32PM
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So how can you deal with Bluerays, let alone DVDs
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Re:Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years
by noahtallen on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:58PM
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Netflix has up to 16Mbps bitrate for its 4k video streams. Bluray is up to 128Mbps. That's a ton more space for avoiding compression artifacts, even though Bluray is lossless. Netflix compresses its video to shit so that it can save money on network costs. (https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...)
My subjective opinion is that Netflix has the worst video quality, though I've had some really bad experiences with Amazon Prime too. But Netflix is worse for me because some shows on Netflix can never get to the max bitrate they offer. For example, the last season of Peaky Blinders on 1080p Netflix had a ton of very noticeable compression artifacts, but that's not always the case for 1080p content. They just encoded it very poorly on the backend.
Apple TV+ has the best bitrate (up to 40Mbps), and Disney+ and HBO Max are decent as well.