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Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
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#132Makes you think, how much further we could stretch things if we were all using the Nims/C/C++ of the world instead of the Ruby's. Please don't immediately flame, I'm just saying objectively, we could stretch hardware out much further. What do you guys think about this?
I strongly subscribe to this view. Opinions like this get dismissed by the usual premature optimisation argument and that engineer-time is expensive, but I think that if we built our stacks with performance and efficiency in mind a significant chunk of operating and indeed development costs would be eliminated from corporate expenditures and would outweigh the potential initial development costs (which I don't think…
Networking stacks tend to be fairly optimized already.
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#133Isn't this sort of rationing exactly the thing that anti-Net Neutrality advocates have been warning about?
Can't tell if that "anti-" should be there or not...
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#134Kodi and mpv continue to work as normal...
Jellyfin is really nice if you have a semi-powerful, wired-network machine to run it on. Former Kodi user, now a convert. Kodi on an Rpi makes a good cast target for it, though.
I've gone for Infuse and Apple TV 4K, since I haven't been able to find anything as fast as the 4K Apple TV that's not an actual computer.
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#135Interesting counterpoint to the "broadband is so much better in Europe" trope. Unless of course we are under strain here in the US as well....
I've just run four different speed tests and all say that I'm getting ~100/10 which is what my ISP advertises (Virgin Media in the UK)
One of them shows a ping of 27 ms (I think it's normally ~ 10 ms)
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#136A few months ago there was blog post posted here from a guy making movie reviews. In the blog post he described how he managed to get 4k Netflix screenshots on his Chromecast. The effort he made was enormous and involved reverse engineering the Netflix data protocol (I probably worded this wrong). When doing that he found out that Netflix streaming in 4k isn't actually 4k. Again not exactly sure how this worked but t…
I think this is the one you need. Interesting, thanks for the suggestion to search for it! https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
epic
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, right now is not a time to be thinking about your ability to get the luxury service and goods you're used to. It's about us all staying alive and keeping each other alive and making it through this. Maybe you have to do with a little bit less than you're used to, maybe you don't think it's fair because you've paid $5 extra for your extra stream quality. None of us think what's happening is fair, but we have…
I don't mean to strawman but are you saying luxury businesses should be able to get away with not delivering on what their customers pay for because we are in an unexpected situation?
Yes because the luxury business customer's wants to have the UHD they paid a small sum for do not trump other people's needs to be able to work from home in order to eat and keep the real economy working because of a pandemic.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#138A few months ago there was blog post posted here from a guy making movie reviews. In the blog post he described how he managed to get 4k Netflix screenshots on his Chromecast. The effort he made was enormous and involved reverse engineering the Netflix data protocol (I probably worded this wrong). When doing that he found out that Netflix streaming in 4k isn't actually 4k. Again not exactly sure how this worked but t…
This one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
Exactly! I also just found it. Don't know how I didn't manage to find it before.
The comments were quite critical.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know if something like this graph exists for the US? I tried googling for one but I’m not sure of the right search terms to use.
It's a neutral exchange. Note that it doesn't give the whole story; really big players like Netflix may have hardware directly in some of the ISPs and bypass the exchange completely. The US doesn't have many significant neutral exchanges, but here's one: https://www.seattleix.net/statistics/
Possibly, but Netflix do peer in INEX, https://www.inex.ie/ixp/customer/detail/103
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s still bullshit.
While the whole world is trying to deal with the worst pandemic in 100 years, you are going to have to adjust your expectation levels for bullshit.
The technical needlessness of this decision has been thoroughly reviewed in this thread; therefore this is just a fear-based decision because of the panic. Why should anyone tolerate pointless moves like this to appease people that are panicking?