[Boldened15]

Since Netflix never (edit: rarely) releases Blu-Rays for their original content, there's no source to produce high-quality versions of their 4K content right? Could be wrong but I thought webrips that screen capture are relatively low quality because they're reencoding a video that's already being compressed for streaming.

Don't know if I notice these things much personally but if someone already cares about 1080p vs 4K they probably would.

[throwaway48476]

The scene has ways of getting the data without reencoding. Look for web dl.

[avidiax]

This is still far less bitrate than the equivalent BluRay. Netflix dropped their 4k bitrate during COVID and never looked back.

[bolognafairy]

This is the difference between “rip” and “DL”. You can certainly pull content from Netflix without re-encoding.