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Netflix sells pixels. Not stories. They are the McDonalds of movies, and a McDonalds is all about standardization and efficiency. If only allowing for cameras
by nso 9y ago
Netflix sells pixels. Not stories.
They are the McDonalds of movies, and a McDonalds is all about standardization and efficiency.
If only allowing for cameras that deliver a narrow and predictable band of technologies let's them work more efficiently, and if they are able to make and save money that way, it makes perfect sense for someone who works at scale to do exactly what they are doing. They are a market marker now, and thus can afford to play around with previously established norms.
- joshuak 9y agoThey may be marketing pixels "more is better", but they are selling content. Customers come, and remain because of content. Bad content at 4k is still bad content. It's true good image quality does help, but my point is they already have both simply by specifying the delivery requirement. What they are doing is more like a company that says they won't buy software that's written on anything other than emacs, or Notepad.
- ams6110 9y agoI don't and will never own a 4K TV, but having seen it at friends' houses I think image quality can go too far. It is so "uncanny" vivid and sharp it's distracting. Maybe because I grew up with NTSC when a 20" TV was a "big" television, but I can't watch the 4K stuff without getting queasy.