I was shocked by how poor the HBO show I just watched on Amazon Prime looked on my 2019 TV. Visible banding in backgrounds like 16 bit color from the late 90s.

I was shocked by how poor the HBO show I just watched on Amazon Prime looked on my 2019 TV. Visible banding in backgrounds like 16 bit color from the late 90s. For all the flack you hear about Netflix streaming compared to 4K BDs I very rarely notice such visible encoding artifacts.