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Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs by clueless on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:36PM (#46110306)
> Not sure the full motivation behind this

This feature was one of the main reasons how Netflix movies/shows could be captured/uploaded to piracy sites in full quality as soon as they were released. People recorded the video output and uploaded them. This is to remove that path. Kinda obvious if you ask.

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Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs by progbits on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:53PM (#46110555)
This is untrue. This method wouldn't get you the highres content, that's limited to higher widevine tiers. Pirates use other bypass methods and this will zero impact.
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Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs by Dayshine on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:04PM (#46110679)
That's not how casting works. It's actually super locked down: the TV loads a netflix website and you can't create your own Chromecast receivers.
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Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs by fragmede on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:49PM (#46111327)
How does VLC do it then?
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Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs by mvdtnz on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:00PM (#46110631)
How is this different from recording video output from a not-casted stream?
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Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs by progbits on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:41PM (#46111215)
It isn't, some people just like to post completely made up nonsense on topics they don't understand.

Edit: GP's username should have been a hint...

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