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		zionic on April 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol L... Every medium to high end TV in best buyw as 4K in 2016. By 2017 it was hard to find 1080p TVs at best buy. Today I'm fairly certain my local one doesn't have any. Why are seemingly tech-enthusiast forums and subreddits more often than not resolution luddites? It's not just here, I've seen this in a lot of tech-related internet places and the trend baffles me.

013a on April 3, 2020 [–]

That isn't the point the OP is trying to make; they're saying, correctly, that Netflix limits the resolution to 720p/1080p in browsers like Firefox.

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