3 ms·
This one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/ https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
by rwol 7y ago
This one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/ https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
- BenJong-Il 7y agoExactly! I also just found it. Don't know how I didn't manage to find it before. The comments were quite critical. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669234
- wmf 7y agoThere's nothing in there about 4K not being 4K, just some griping about low bitrates. On computers you can access some debug stats https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2fkylx/hidden_netflix_menu_to_set_quality_bonus_hidden/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2fkylx/hidden_netf... and Roku also has it https://community.roku.com/t5/Channel-Issues-Questions/Somehow-got-Netflix-playback-statistics-in-top-left/td-p/462513 https://community.roku.com/t5/Channel-Issues-Questions/Someh...
- nrp 7y agoI think in the end the author's only complaint was that it was difficult to figure out what bitrate the Chromecast was streaming at, is a pretty minor problem. It reads like a complaint post, but that seems to just be the author's writing style.
- fulafel 7y agoYou're technially right but conceptually he did show that the bitrate isn't in the normal 4k ballpark. There's likely little or no benefit on using a 4k resolution at this bitrate. In his experiment the Chroomecast on wifi gets a ~6 Mbps stream for 4k, which is about 20% of an average quality Handbrake encoded 4k stream. The surprise was that in his experiment Apple TV got so much higher bitrate. Market segmentation?
- wmf 7y agoIt's possible to capture the output and analyze the detail so I don't want to hear about what's "likely".