Comment by lostlogin
1 day ago
If you check it will say the resolution is AMAZING.
Despite being a subscriber I pirate their shows to get some pixels.
1 day ago
If you check it will say the resolution is AMAZING.
Despite being a subscriber I pirate their shows to get some pixels.
I have some *arrs on my server. Anything that comes from Netflix is bitstarved to death. If the same show is available on virtually any other streaming service, it will be at the very least twice the size.
No other service does this.
And for some reason, if HDR versions of their 1080p content are even more bitstarved than SDR.
Things can be both high resolution and still low quality due to being overcompressed.
I really wish they had to advertise streams at bitrate and not resolution.
Bitrate still won’t tell you how bad the encoding is. There can be dramatic differences at the same or inverse bitrate.
Netflix's main audience is general public who still cannot differentiate between mbps and MBps.
for us nerds there is hidden stats for nerds option.
https://blog.sayan.page/netflix-debug-mode/
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While this is true, looking at it sometimes has quality so bad that I think the displayed resolution is just a complete lie.
YouTube does this. When I open a video the quality is set to Auto by default. It'll also show the "actual" quality next to it, like "Auto 1080p". Complete lie. I see this and see the video looks like 480p, manually change to 1080p and it's instantly much better. The auto quality thing is a flat out lie.
Where do pirates get the shows from? Not from the very platform you're trying to avoid?
I found a pirate copy of Netflix at 1080p looked a lot better than Netflix at 1080p, presumably because the pirate copy was a remix of the 4K copy and Netflix serves a low bitrate 1080p version.