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by shad0wfax 5207 days ago
Just on that point of Netflix, they do let you set the streaming quality on your account settings. This affects the streaming to all devices though and is a master setting.

But I agree with you, we can be the best judge of the quality we want, rather than the auto-detection. The adaptive streaming (even Apple's http live streaming supports this) is a possible solution for auto detecting the best bandwidth to use, though it is a lot of work for content creators.