my 0.02 on the matter - i can commend that they got a reliable system but the deliverables are not quite comparable imho. not all "HD" is made equal. bitrate i

my 0.02 on the matter - i can commend that they got a reliable system but the deliverables are not quite comparable imho. not all "HD" is made equal. bitrate is a major component of the perceived video quality. some experienced it first hand when youtube premium started pushing higher bitrate version for 1080p (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918698). (disney+) hotstar is an indian streaming service which recently handled more than 50M+ concurrent viewers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344265) for a live sports event. but if you actually watch the stream, it is of a very poor quality. long story short: hub pushes for bitrate/quality much lower than netflix needs to in order to satisfy its paying customers, especially when they discriminate based on how much one pays. but i wonder how much it would help with non-cpu scenarios when we need to do transcoding for upcoming codecs which might benefit from using hardware accelerators.