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In 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. Thei
by lucideer 10y ago
In 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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