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by tpmx 976 days ago
They also have a problem with older noisy 1080p sources. Badly upscaled to 4k and then bandwidth-limited it sometimes looks comically bad.

When I tried out the 4k Netflix option in early 2023 I found myself wanting an option to downgrade to their 1080p encoding for a few of the shows I was watching.

I was told Netflix hired really smart people for like 300-500k/year for the express purpose of avoiding stupid shit like this.