Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by defrost on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:59AM
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Perhaps, I thought your complaint was not finding enough "4K" (not a term I like much).
If it's about finding 1440p that'd mainly be because it's not a common broadcast format to the best of my knowledge - I just don't see it about much.
Articles such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution
don't mention it as a broadcast format, and articles that are specific to 1440p: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1440p
have it as :
As a graphics display resolution between 1080p and 4K, Quad HD is regularly used in smartphone displays, and for computer and console gaming.
Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi...
by ffsm8 on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:29AM
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1440p isn't really available on official streaming platforms, so it is indeed a lot more rare.
It's pretty much only available on original encodes, i.e. BluRay rips, this makes it a format that very rarely seen on currently airing shows, which are mostly webrips from official streaming platforms.
You'll often see it alongside the usual resolutions for movies that have since been released on disk.
You overwhelmingly see 1280x720, 1920x1080, and 3840x2160, sometimes with a truncated height because of aspect ratio but usually advertised with the full height for consistency reasons.
There's barely any 2560x1440. Anyone going above 1080p goes directly to 4k.
Youtube is pretty much the only place I've ever seen 1440p encodes, and that's because they're super version-happy and make 20 different variants of a video.