I suspect this is the real reason why it's limited to 720p. It's on the web where it's not possible to identify that 1080p on a non-hw accelerated rendering dev

I suspect this is the real reason why it's limited to 720p. It's on the web where it's not possible to identify that 1080p on a non-hw accelerated rendering device on a fast network won't suffer from playing the higher quality content. Browsers need to provide more feature detection APIs so that Netflix can enable higher quality when it knows it won't impact the end users system. Must be possible since YouTube knows when to upgrade?