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Yeah, I keep wondering about this business model choice too. Netflix is the only major streamer left at this point charging for HD and 4K as separate tiers. The
by WorldMaker 4y ago
Yeah, I keep wondering about this business model choice too. Netflix is the only major streamer left at this point charging for HD and 4K as separate tiers. The other major streamers do sometimes tier on simultaneous screens, and often refer to higher tiers as "family plans".
Netflix is at least unintentionally messaging at this point that "only families want or need higher quality streams" and that is a very weird mixed message in the current streaming market, especially now with their slowly increasingly more hostile messaging that they are tired of people sharing passwords (because the shareholders demand account growth in a saturated market with a much-increased field of competitors).
- dixie_land 4y agofor that matter we should stop calling 1080p HD :( on a mordern display 1080p content are visibly pixilated
- FullyFunctional 4y agoI'd love it if we could just go back to the sane convention that calls a spade a spade. Eg, it's 120 V and 240 V, not "standard-volt" and "super-volt". USB is participial farcical with their ever laughable naming schemes. At least Ethernet is reasonably sane. (And don't get me started on how 4K is a blatant lie as it's really 3860-px wide. 2160p is also ok. Real 4K is a thing, but not consumer).
- noahtallen 4y ago4k being 3860px thing doesn’t even matter. It’s still 4x the pixel count vs 1080p and looks excellent. The real quality problem is bitrate, not raw resolution. A 1080p Blu-ray looks absolutely amazing on a 4K TV. Low-bitrate 4k looks like dogshit. I’d be ok with Netflix’s 1080p if the compression wasn’t so poor on some titles!