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Netflix shows in particular are ridiculously dark.
by pupppet 10mo ago
Netflix shows in particular are ridiculously dark.
- etempleton 10mo agoHeavily compressed.
- lostlogin 10mo agoIf you check it will say the resolution is AMAZING. Despite being a subscriber I pirate their shows to get some pixels.
- bawolff 10mo agoThings can be both high resolution and still low quality due to being overcompressed.
- bombcar 10mo agoI really wish they had to advertise streams at bitrate and not resolution.
- layer8 10mo agoBitrate still won’t tell you how bad the encoding is. There can be dramatic differences at the same or inverse bitrate.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 10mo agoThis is true for amateurs encoding video files to be pirated, but for the mega corps, sending more bits costs more money. Many years ago, I had a couple drinks with a guy from Netflix who worked on their video compression processes, and he fully convinced me they're squeezing every last drop out of every bit they send down the pipes. The quality is not great compared to some other streaming services, but it's actually kind of amazing how they're able to get away with serving such tiny files. Anyway, I think we can expect these companies to mostly max out the resultant video quality of their bitstreams, and showing the average bitrate of their pricing tiers would be a great yardstick for consumers.
- miyuru 10mo agoNetflix's main audience is general public who still cannot differentiate between mbps and MBps. for us nerds there is hidden stats for nerds option. https://blog.sayan.page/netflix-debug-mode/ https://blog.sayan.page/netflix-debug-mode/
- badc0ffee 10mo agomillibits per second is awfully slow.
- lostlogin 10mo agoWhile this is true, looking at it sometimes has quality so bad that I think the displayed resolution is just a complete lie.
- sfn42 10mo agoYouTube does this. When I open a video the quality is set to Auto by default. It'll also show the "actual" quality next to it, like "Auto 1080p". Complete lie. I see this and see the video looks like 480p, manually change to 1080p and it's instantly much better. The auto quality thing is a flat out lie.
- gck1 10mo agoI have some *arrs on my server. Anything that comes from Netflix is bitstarved to death. If the same show is available on virtually any other streaming service, it will be at the very least twice the size. No other service does this. And for some reason, if HDR versions of their 1080p content are even more bitstarved than SDR.
- exitb 10mo agoWhere do pirates get the shows from? Not from the very platform you're trying to avoid?
- staticman2 10mo agoI found a pirate copy of Netflix at 1080p looked a lot better than Netflix at 1080p, presumably because the pirate copy was a remix of the 4K copy and Netflix serves a low bitrate 1080p version.
- joquarky 10mo agoWhich is even worse since darker gradients seem to leave more visible compression artifacts.