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by gdulli 4203 days ago
And in the case of Netflix HD it's not buffering, it just dynamically drops down to super-low res for however long it needs to which is kind of worse, you're not even getting what you pay for. Not that it's necessarily Netflix's fault, it's just inherent to streaming. Which makes the push for 4K streaming a puzzling choice at best.
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Right, we already have incredibly bitrate-starved 1080p. But now you can have four times as many pixels for your compression artifacts!