x265 is actually worse than x264 on high bitrate content, which is why its use is banned on private trackers where picture quality is totally paramount. x265 t

x265 is actually worse than x264 on high bitrate content, which is why its use is banned on private trackers where picture quality is totally paramount. x265 tends to smooth out film grain that x264 preserves at high bitrates. That being said - Netflix has never offered x264 content at sufficiently high bitrates (visually indistinguishable to Blu-ray quality) anyway, so it's a moot point.