Comment by johncolanduoni
16 hours ago
Compression gains will mostly be for the benefit of the streaming platform’s bills/infra unless you’re trying to stream 4K 60fps on hotel wifi (or if you can’t decode last-gen codecs on hardware either ). Apparently streaming platforms still favor user experience enough to not heat their rooms for no observable improvement. Also a TV CPU can barely decode a PNG still in software - video decoding of any kind is simply impossible.
> Apparently streaming platforms still favor user experience enough to not heat their rooms for no observable improvement
It’s more like “why does Netflix kill my battery within an hour when I used to be able to play for 20”