good grief - shows where eu’s priorities lie. countries struggle to get antiviral equipment yet the eu wastes time on this non issue.
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
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I’d rather see 60-144hz before any increases in resolution above 1080p and maybeeee 4K. I think lower quality rips show themselves a bit more on high quality playback devices, but I generally don’t hit low quality releases purely for Snob factors so I could be wrong.
Are movies actually made in 144 FPS?
No, and that’s my point. 144hz is probably overkill, but 60hz is a noticeable difference.
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#443Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d rather see 60-144hz before any increases in resolution above 1080p and maybeeee 4K. I think lower quality rips show themselves a bit more on high quality playback devices, but I generally don’t hit low quality releases purely for Snob factors so I could be wrong.
Movies look like garbage in >30fps. That's why moviemakers beg audiences not to do frame interpolation.
Interpolation and frame rate are two different things.
Care to give an argument more than ‘looks garbage’? I think people reported that the hobbit looked weird, but that’s likely because were used to 30fps in a subconscious level.
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But this is a completely unnecessary measure. Most ISPs in the EU don't have any problems keeping up with the increased demand. To make matters worse most Netflix content is served directly from the ISPs network. This is a retarded symbolic policy to make it seem like a certain EU politician is doing something, when in fact it makes no difference what so ever.
How about next Monday, when all of the EU are trying to remote-school and remote-work simultaneously. Will there still be bandwidth to spare? (genuine question, I don't know the answer)
They should not remote school and watch netflix at the same time.
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#445Netflix forced to give customers a lower quality product instead of ISPs forced to give customers the product they're paying for. Classic!
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are you serious? not offering a refund when you fail to deliver the product is something that makes americans absolutely furious. it's one of the only sacred consumer protection issues here. I've already received billing credits or refunds for every service I'm subscribed to that's halted for coronavirus.
Looking at how bad you let your ISPs treat you, I'm quite serious, I think.
Right now apparently they're treating us a lot better than the European isps. Outside the HN bubble no one is really surprised to hear about a service quality problem in Europe though.
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You should not knock Netflix at all. The request came from the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Netflix helped out when they were asked to. If Europeans are upset about this decision they need to take it up with their elected officials not Netflix.
It was just a request. If any Netflix consumers have an issue with this they should take it with Netflix.
Yes, a request made on the behalf of all Europeans by their government.
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If you pirate it originally yourself, sure. Pirated content from other people that lies about what it is isn't unheard of, though.
Not unheard of, but uncommon. Typically the uploader will list the particulars of his precious file in extreme detail. Video resolution down to the pixel, framerate, mean bitrate and the exact settings and version of the libx264 codec software used...
Unlike streaming services, there is a vibrant competitive landscape in the piracy scene with strong competition incentives on technical quality, with reputation being the commodity.
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I don't see what motivation a tech would have for lying about this.
I asked a Comcast tech when IPv6 would be available and he said “IP v what?”. Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Did you ask them ten years ago? Comcast has had v6 for ages.
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Not an expert on the topic, but IIRC this is the rough outline: - The main ISP of Germany is Deutsche Telekom, a formerly state-owned company that was privatized ~25 years ago, which Germany still holds stock in - In the past Telekom was awarded big contracts to expand broadband access across the country - Telekom is/was really slow at fulfilling those contracts, and at the same time behaves in an anti-competitive ma…
I'm not sure that's (entirely) it. I don't know if this is why Netflix doesn't do it, but Germany doesn't have the same First Amendment laws as the US. In particular, there are some writings that are illegal under German law. Thus, locating a box in Germany that could potentially hold material that is illegal under German law is ill advised. That the box is operating simply as a local cache doesn't seem to change the…
Akamai has hundrads of cache boxes at German ISPs, including at this one.
There are some issues at play here:
1. This ISP in particular has extremely weird peering rules, they only do paid private peering (more expensive than other transit providers) and even deny access to Tier 1 networks. For a long time YouTube was almost unusable due to weird routing - they even had a website explaining why YouTube was broken (Google doesn't want to pay crycry). Same with several popular gameservers. Due to their market position they are completely fine with being the bully.
2. They have their own streaming and TV offer so they don't have many reasons for making the Netflix experience better.
This information might be outdated, I don't live in Germany anymore and it seems that they now have some sort of partnership with Netflix.