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Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

without compromising on visual fidelity

But it does compromise. Netflix has the worst banding issues in low-light scenes of any of the streaming services I've tried. It's hard not to notice and it's very annoying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

With any tech that allows the same quality with less data, there will always be someone pushing to cut quality to save even more data.