Netflix 4K streaming goes live but only on newest TVs

Re:Netflix 4K streaming goes live but only on newest TVs by DiabloD3 on Thursday April 10, 2014 @03:17AM (#7564618)

I'll just wait until Chromecast supports 4k.

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Re:Netflix 4K streaming goes live but only on newest TVs by ZeroGravitas on Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:54AM (#7564907)

This comment was downvoted as I wrote this comment:

I assume the context that downvoters are missing here is that the streaming curretly only supports the newest TVs because only they contain the necessary hardware to decode HEVC 4K streams.

But Chromecast is one of several dongle/boxes which separates these problems out, so as soon as an external dongle supports 4K you'll be able to plug it in to a last year model 4K TV, or even a non-4K TV, and be able to take advantage of 4K streams.

There's at least one already:

http://www.nuvola4k.com/

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