Get ready to nerd out with Netflix in high quality. Tell me if this has happened to you. You're streaming something on your laptop or TV and suddenly the quality dips and the screen goes fuzzy. Many streamers have problems with this, especially Netflix, and they're doing something to change it. According to the Netflix Tech Blog, the streamer has developed new encoding that cuts bitrates for 4K video in half without affecting picture quality. "Computing the Bjøntegaard Delta (BD) rate shows 50% gains on average over the fixed-bitrate ladder. Meaning, on average we need 50% less bitrate to achieve the same quality with the optimized ladder," the company said. "For members with high-bandwidth connections we deliver the same great quality at half the bitrate on average. For members with constrained bandwidth we deliver higher quality at the same (or even lower) bitrate." So what does this mean? It means you're going to get higher quality and fewer drops while streaming. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 16 October, 2020