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OT: starting with covid, Netflix reduced bitrate to relieve stress on overloaded networks. Did they ever reverse this? Video still looks overly compressed to me
by MrBuddyCasino 5y ago
OT: starting with covid, Netflix reduced bitrate to relieve stress on overloaded networks. Did they ever reverse this? Video still looks overly compressed to me, so much so that I find it annoying.
- Widdershin 5y agoAs far as I can tell Covid-quality is still in full effect, to the point where I don’t watch movies on Netflix at all anymore. I often start one, remember the quality and then find an alternate source. I wonder if they’ve seen that it doesn’t impact churn as much as it saves them money, and they’re keeping it that way as long as possible.
- MrBuddyCasino 5y ago> I wonder if they’ve seen that it doesn’t impact churn as much as it saves them money, and they’re keeping it that way as long as possible. Yes thats my suspicion too.
- Aissen 5y agoIt should have come back. If not, it's probably a bug, but good luck trying to report that to Netflix.
- tinus_hn 5y agoThey forced SD resolution to appease technophobes who were crying Netflix was wasting bandwidth on ‘unnecessary entertainment’ while they were having trouble with their ‘necessary video meetings’. Which of course was a limitation of bandwidth across the internet while Netflix mostly uses local bandwidth, they try to stream from machines on the ISP networks because it saves them a ton of money. After about a month this was reversed. In the meantime it’s possible they have switched compression standards or settings which you may have noticed. But the covid limitations should be long gone. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/