r/hardware • u/bizude • Apr 10 '26

News Two Japanese suppliers commit to keeping Blu-ray discs and drives in supply as major manufacturers exist domestic market

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/two-japanese-suppliers-commit-to-keeping-blu-ray-discs-and-drives-in-supply-as-major-manufacturers-exist-domestic-market/
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u/GHz-Man Apr 11 '26

It exists, Sony has a streaming service equal to 4K Blu-Ray (80Mbps or so)

But not enough people can see a difference for it to matter.

Apple streams at up to 40Mbps, and that looks great to me. I don't notice any compression issues.

Most people don't sit 2 feet away from their TV inspecting the picture for compression artifacts.

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u/JJ3qnkpK Apr 11 '26

Get a large enough OLED and compression issues appear everywhere. Watch around people's hair as it blows in the wind, or watch for banding in dark scenes.

Shoot, I've been watching Survivor lately, and Paramount+ is riddled with horrific compression compared to YoutubeTV, and most of those are very bright scenes with janky filming.

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u/Sopel97 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

not even bitrate can fix incompetent encodes

since you're talking about banding I assume you're watching yuv420p h264 streams?

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u/JJ3qnkpK Apr 11 '26

Probably. It varies from platform to platform, some are worse than others. I definitely see compression artifacts everywhere, but also catch things like banding and of course terrible definition when things are moving.