Post #1767548

2026-01-31 18:34 UTC

Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.

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@blitzen@lemmy.ca 2026-01-31 18:40

> bluray and piracy I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)

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@bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2026-01-31 20:30

And piracy gets them from Bluray. Now that that's dying I'm afraid we're gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.

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@Wooki@lemmy.world 2026-02-01 13:10

If you don't use an "approved" browser Netflix reduces the stream to 320p. God awful service. Screw streaming.

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@fizzle@quokk.au 2026-02-01 00:44

I never choose higher bitrate releases. IDK why exactly. When you search for a movie and there's a half dozen releases, you choose the groups you know, and the number of seeders, and usually end up with a 2gb to 4gb release size. The bitrate doesn't really factor into my decision, partly I suppose because it's always "good enough", and partly because it's not a reliable indicator of image quality anyway.

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