ahahaa, didnt even think clips were longer than 15-20sec max. but yeah, did notice blockiness @ 25s. in both examples. CBR was more obvious, of course. the cure would be to crank the bitrate slider to gorillion. no more problems for CBR. but of course, filesize would be ridiculous. therefore, for providers VBR is a logical choice. less data, less bandwidth, less cost. but then again, providers should do a better job imo. for now, from my experiences, theres no way streaming will ever replace not only ownership of physical media, but also renting of said physical media. maybe it changes in the future, but for now i give providers (and ive tried almost every single one available in the US - dunno, maybe BBC or ITV did a better job), taking everything into an account (availability, cost, flexibility, catalog size, subtitles, audio and video quality), a C.
C+ if im feeling generous. but, thats just me. i am impressed, though, with what some providers have done with certain titles, the coding magic they did. on the other hand, ill never forget or fogrive the shoddy job they did with married with children, 3rd rock from the sun, frasier and all those older shows. scrubs, roseanne etc. now we have top notch quality for pure cringe like desus&muro, the conners and all that marxist woke tripe netflix (and now hulu and amazon, and soon every other provider, no doubt) serves on regular basis, but have to enjoy interlaced, blocky, lq cult shows such as mwc or frasier. oh, well. here i go, ranting again. anyways, cheers!
