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This seems to be more about the DRM plugin used: Google Widevine (720p) -vs- Windows PMP (1080p) -vs- Apple Fairplay (presumably also 1080p?) IE seems to also
by lucideer 10y ago
This seems to be more about the DRM plugin used: Google Widevine (720p) -vs- Windows PMP (1080p) -vs- Apple Fairplay (presumably also 1080p?)
IE seems to also get 1080p so their linking this to Edge performance seems like fallacious marketing. Seems like an OS feature, not a browser feature.
also, I don't think the string "Trident" was introduced into the UA until relatively recently
- Piskvorrr 10y agoHa, good catch! Great to know that my UA-sniffing skills have rusted (as there's rarely a need for them). Seems to be, indeed. That's why I'm unsure this has anything to do with Browser-Which-Is-Not-IE-Notatall-Noooosir.
- tinus_hn 10y agoThere is no way it's a performance thing if it doesn't matter what kind of hardware it runs on. It's just a marketing deal of a company desparately trying to remain relevant.
- lucideer 10y agoIn fairness to MS, if you read the referenced blog post (instead of the PCWorld OP), it doesn't actually link the 1080p serving to Edge or to performance. Their implication is that Netflix are serving lower quality content to Widevine because they believe the DRM is inferior and are afraid of their premium 1080p streams being copied.
- Piskvorrr 10y agoSo, a marketing trick, as I suspected. "Let's explicitly deny other browsers the capability - and claim them inferior for it." Circular reasoning at its worst.
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