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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by recursive on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:12PM (#42955207)
Could be a DRM thing. You might not have a trusted display/decoding device, so it gives you the low res.
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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by TuringNYC on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:06PM (#42957225)
>Could be a DRM thing. You might not have a trusted display/decoding device, so it gives you the low res.

True, but that is why this is a hard engineering challenge -- there are a lot of variations on client-side devices which need to be supported well. Upgrade cycles for TVs is 3x that of phones, is my guess.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:27AM (#42960640)
'That' being DRM?
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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by londons_explore on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:32AM (#42962653)
Except there are only 3 DRM providers, and as a streaming service provider you just wrap the 3 providers libraries and write a few config files.
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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by deelowe on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:36PM (#42957883)
Its not that. I'm on a lg c2 with a modern Chromecast (or whatever name Google is calling it now) plugged in. Its all new stuff.
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