[isiahl]

The website doesn't deliver 1080p video in any browser but Edge (and this may have changed with Edge being switched to Chromium)

[chrisseaton]

> The website doesn't deliver 1080p video in any browser but Edge

I'm pretty sure I watch HD Netflix in Safari. Surely I can't be watching 720p and be deceiving myself?

[y4mi]

HD starts at 720p.

The difference between Netflix 1080 and 720p is often pretty small, so you might've really just not noticed. They're generally streaming with pretty poor bit-rates

The first time I watched a pirated episode after years of streaming from Netflix was pretty eye opening for me wrt video quality.

[chrisseaton]

You’re definitely mistaken - you get up to 4K in the browser with Safari - it’s highlighted in the UI even I think.

[y4mi]

It's great if it does, not sure how that makes me mistaken though. I never said anything about what was actually supported.

My point was that the pixel density is pretty hard to determine with low Bitrate streams as you get them from Netflix.

[banana_giraffe]

Safari on Mac OS can do 4k. Chrome will top out at 720p.

You can check for yourself, hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D during playback to show a bunch of stats on the stream, including the current resolution being shown.

[endless1234]

Safari is up to 4k on macOS 11+, as per https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764

[moffkalast]

Chrome works in 1080p, but has a 1 in something chance of crashing your graphics driver for some reason. After I had to force restart my pc from a black screen for the 3rd time I eventually moved the the desktop app which doesn't have those problems.