kinther@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoInside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encodingwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down13cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.onlineart@lemmy.world
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minus-squaremashbooqlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·5 months ago 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.
minus-squareryper@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-25 months agoWith any tech that allows the same quality with less data, there will always be someone pushing to cut quality to save even more data.
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.
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.