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> The exact same setup (Chrome on this Linux laptop) works just fine with 4K youtube streams. Yet both Netflix and Amazon have restrictions for 4K where it basi
by colde 9y ago
> The exact same setup (Chrome on this Linux laptop) works just fine with 4K youtube streams. Yet both Netflix and Amazon have restrictions for 4K where it basically only works with closed set-top box type devices. There's no reasonable technical motivation for the restriction.
That doesn't mean it will do that smoothly with DRM on top of it. It also doesn't mean that most users have equally capable hardware, since it might not be accelerated in hardware. While pretty much any device today will do 1080p H.264 with hardware acceleration. Have you ever tried explaining these nuances to customers who says their movie playback is terrible, if so, I think you would reach the same conclusion as those providers. Youtube is free and doesn't really have the same issue as people don't expect to be able to contact Youtube support and complain about quality.
> While I only have 2 choices, and those are the same two worldwide, I easily have 3 good ISP choices and those are local to each market, so worldwide there are hundreds or thousands. That's exactly my point. Worldwide the neutrality in content access is probably more important as it is a much more consolidated industry.
Well, good for you. But not every ISP market is the same, not every country is the same. I wouldn't mind that somebody looked at how content licensing works, but me being able to access Wikipedia or any number of other websites, a lot of which might be discussing my ISP in negative terms is IMHO much more important than i get to see the entertainment i like.
- pedrocr 9y ago>While pretty much any device today will do 1080p H.264 with hardware acceleration. And yet Netflix won't give me even that. >Have you ever tried explaining these nuances to customers who says their movie playback is terrible, if so, I think you would reach the same conclusion as those providers. If that was the issue the help line should be able to enable this for me once I've specifically asked for it. They don't and I very seriously doubt that's even 10% of the reasoning. > wouldn't mind that somebody looked at how content licensing works, but me being able to access Wikipedia or any number of other websites, a lot of which might be discussing my ISP in negative terms is IMHO much more important than i get to see the entertainment i like. My point isn't that net neutrality isn't extremely important. My point is that having Amazon and Netflix fighting for net neutrality while being so blatently anti-consumer is hypocrisy.
- jhasse 9y ago> And yet Netflix won't give me even that. Cancel Netflix then.
- pedrocr 9y agoI'm considering it. But it means having no legal source for House of Cards. It's like saying "stop going to Wikipedia" if the problem is that lack of net neutrality means you don't have a decent connection to it.
- jhasse 9y agoYou can buy House of Cards on DVD or Bluray ;) It also gets broadcasted on TV here in Germany.
- pedrocr 9y agoSo my options are another technology that intentionally and arbitrarily only works on some devices or move to Germany?
- jhasse 9y agoYou can rip DVDs to .mkv files using MakeMKV and play them on nearly every device. I only know that this is legal in Germany though.
- pedrocr 9y agoI don't even own a device that can read a DVD anymore but even if I did that's a 20+ year old technology that's only readable on Linux because someone broke the encryption specifically designed to disallow it. Hardly an example of how content providers support reasonable options for all users. Blu-ray is worse. I've never owned a device capable of reading it and the playback restrictions are even harsher.