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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Jochim on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:15AM (#39258543)
It's usually blocky compression artifacts that show up at 720p and some 1080p encodes. They're most noticeable in dark or fast moving scenes.

On Netflix, The Sandman looked abysmally bad at 720p. The complex backgrounds became a garbled mess and the dark scenes were filled with banding.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by GoblinSlayer on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:10AM (#39259377)
Do you like dark scenes?
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by justsomehnguy on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:41AM (#39259616)
> blocky compression artifacts that show up at 720p

It's just the shitty compression, not the mark of 720p.

This is extremely evident on YouTube now, for a couple of years if the source content is 4K native, they downgrade it to 1080p (so you can stream it with a comfortable bitrate), but despite a good enough resolution (1080p! 2K!) and the need to just downgrade the resolution (yes, double re-encoding, but) the 2K version looks abysmal. Especially evident on live videos with a contrast lights.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Jochim on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:55PM (#39306772)
You're right that it's not a problem inherent to 720p itself. I was using it as a proxy since the issues weren't present in Netflix's 4k encoding and it's more familiar than other measures.
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