I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don't know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is working.

So now I'm here pirating a show that should be available to me through a service I pay for. Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.

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[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 57 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Also, I pay for 4k streaming but because of compression or something else they are definitely not sending me 4k content. I was watching a movie on Netflix that I had forgot I pirated. Both were 4K but the quality of the pirated one was far superior.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Youtube has that too where it says 1080p but actually it's potato quality.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've noticed a new resolution setting: 1080p Premium HD Enhanced Bitrate.

So yeah, 1080p confirmed potato. Upgrade to new potatoless 1080p now!

[–] Chinzon@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

I think I'll just upgrade to sailing the high seas rather than paying these clowns

[–] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really depends on the service. I find 4K streaming from Apple and Disney are “close enough” to my Blu-rays I can’t tell the difference unless I stick my nose up to the TV. Now, Max? Hulu? YouTube? All “4k” garbage is so low bitrate I need to take my glasses off to enjoy it

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Close to your 4k blu rays? Because regular blu ray discs they play on regular blu ray players don't do 4k.

If you're comparing to regular blu rays, you're not comparing to 4k.

Edit: what a strange reaction to this comment... I imagine the average American would not know that they need a different DVD player for 4k DVDs.

Was just trying to be helpful by clarifying. Guess I'll just go fuck myself.

Edit 2: is it really that hard to understand my point? Dude said that his 4k streaming looks way better than blu ray. No specification of 4k blu ray, so I just wanted to clarify for those reading the thread, that yes, 4k streaming will look better than a regular blu ray 100% of the time. No shit.

Maybe instead of being a dick with your responses, you could have just clarified your original comment to be clear that you were comparing apples to apples (4k stream to 4k blu ray). It would have taken two characters added to your original comment ("4k"), yet instead you chose to be an asshole.

And no, it's not obvious to a lot of people.

[–] TheAutisticSlavicBoy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

4k streaming will look better than a regular blu ray 100% of the time

good resolution terrible bitrate may be worse than worse resolution better bitrate

[–] araozu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Louis Rossmann made a video about it noday I think. They (apparently) don't serve 4k in browsers, only if you use their propietary apps and allow to send them all your data

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Link for the lazy: https://youtu.be/o4GZUCwVRLs

Definitely worth a watch.

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[–] raptir@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Netflix is terrible but Disney+ 4k with HDR looks decent.

[–] wccrawford@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I've noticed this, too, with both video and audio. It's ridiculous.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 0 points 2 years ago

if you streamed it at the proper bitrate you would be using a ton of data at 4k, even streaming from my own server to my tv sometimes is too much since my TV only has a 100mbit nic on it on films like 1917 the bit rate would spike on some scenes and it will start to stutter or stop playing all together, for that I had to use my xbox or maybe Ill invest in a roku or shield with a 1gb nic. but for regular streaming you might get the resolution in 4k but you'll see in dark scenes these like squares and artifacts because of how its compressed down to be able to get to you through the internet while not annihilating your bandwidth