Let me add a couple 100 more to that count. Did you know that netflix doesn't support resolutions higher than 720p on windows/linux? You could subscribe to the 1080p plan (like me) and the players will stream 720p videos to you with no indication whatsoever. The only way of checking the netflix video resolution is `document.querySelectorAll('video')[0].videoWidth`. There are FF extensions but they don't work for every title.
Yes. Chromium and “Edgium” add a lot of their own closed-source services before releasing package. One example is that “Translate website” toolbar that Chrome has, which sends the entire content to Google’s servers using their own API key. That’s not present in the Chromium source.
No, but I wouldn't pay 65% more unless I could actually tell the difference. I could probably tell the difference between 1080p and 720 on my laptop, but I doubt I could tell between 4k and 1080p so I wouldn't pay for that.
thats the thing, you can actually tell but for adaptive streaming its harder to be definitive. Also content resolution becomes secondary when you are neck deep in show & storyline. that does not means its insignificant, just that its effects are subtle. In fact, this is so much more true for HDR vs non HDR.
Source: I've done a lot of HDR processing development for a leading media company.
Also the software restrictions on the linked Netflix page seem to be arbitrary. When I download a movie in a DRM-free .mkv file, I can play it in all my browsers, all media player apps (typically VLC and MPV), and the HDMI version doesn't matter.
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
I only noticed when I got to the third act of annihilation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsJgceM0KI&ab_channel=Prime...