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Yet they still can't properly render 21:9 content on a 21:9 display. You get a shrunk picture with black bars on all sides. Even their "Originals" or N-Series
by heroprotagonist 6y ago
Yet they still can't properly render 21:9 content on a 21:9 display. You get a shrunk picture with black bars on all sides. Even their "Originals" or N-Series or whatever they call it now have this problem.
Here's hoping someone from Netflix is in the comments and can act on it, because their support system hasn't done anything in the 2 years since I brought it to their attention.
edit: Actually, I tried to track down the film used in the new encoding (I think it's The Dirt from the signs and dates seen in the frame captures) so I could screenshot for comparison. It actually worked in 21:9 fullscreen.
Was it the new encoding? I saw this problem up until this past week, most recently on Maniac but I checked that show and it's no longer an issue.
From the post I suspect it was this adding in extra blacks at top and bottom on 21:9 content in the old method:
> with fixed 4K resolution bitrates — 8, 10, 12 and 16 Mbps — regardless of content characteristics
But I truly don't know what it was. I just know that video no longer ignores 40% of my screen real estate by watching on a 21:9 monitor since sometime last week.
THANK YOU! That has been annoying me for years.
But Please add 3440x1440 to your testing. It's not shown in those charts.