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As the others have answered... I don't have a TV but I've got a projector with a gigantic diagonal. I posted here several times that I don't understand why st

As the others have answered... I don't have a TV but I've got a projector with a gigantic diagonal. I posted here several times that I don't understand why streaming from Netflix gives a worse picture than playing a torrent. The DRM itself may be the reason apparently (maybe the computer I use to stream from Netflix ain't powerful enough? No clue). I'll just say this: sailing the high seas (well, kinda: I only pirate the movie which I have access to anyway and I'm subscribed to Netflix/Disney+/Amazon Prime Video/etc. + 140 channels as part of my Internet subscription) gives a better picture than streaming. People underestimate the quality of streaming movies locally and playing FLAC files locally vs streaming.

revolvingocelot 4y ago
If you're not using a setup that plays nicely with Widevine, Netflix will cap your quality at 720p [0], precisely because your free-as-in-freedom stack doesn't lack the capability to record the stream, if you so choose. I don't know anything about the other services firsthand because I jus-- uh, actually, never mind [0] https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/widevine-drm-hollywood-video/#4 https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/widevine-drm-hollywood-video/...
derefr 4y ago
> I don't understand why streaming from Netflix gives a worse picture than playing a torrent Because Netflix is conserving bandwidth by sending you a lower-bitrate stream, while the pirated copy is — for movies at least — very likely a pirated copy of some offline release, e.g. BluRay, which comes with higher bitrate.