Maximum selectable resolution (Netflix)

[SmegHead]

Discovered a weird problem, but I'm going to start my stating I think this is probably an issue with Netflix rather than yourselves, but it's very strange nonetheless...

I've been looking at downloading episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and noticed a really odd problem. Started with DS9 and almost all of the seasons had a fixed download resolution of 576x432, except for the fifth season which had a maximum resolution of 720x480 (other selectable resolutions were 512x384, 384x288 and 320x200).

I thought this was just an encoding mistake on the part of Netflix, but I noticed EXACTLY the same behaviour on Voyager, namely all of the seasons were restricted to 576x432 except for season five (720x480)!

As a side note, I'm certain versions of AnyStream prior to 1.0.3.0. displayed the maximum download resolution to something like 640x400 instead of 720x480, so I was just curious if there's something peculiar going on, and maybe this issue might not be restricted to these two TV series.

Anyway, probably not an issue with AnyStream, but I thought it was worth mentioning...

 

[testiles]

576x432 is what I've been seeing for Voyager all along.

Those are older TV series that have strange lower resolutions.

Same for Charmed (the original) and a few others I've encountered.


Right, definitely not AnyStream, just what Netflix is offering for those series.



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[SmegHead]

It's just weird that the same seasons of both shows are presented in the superior 720x480 resolution. I'm experimenting with AI upscaling, so the higher base resolution makes all the difference.

 

[Ch3vr0n]

They may not be superior. They might as well just have cropped the black bars away in the other seasons and left them intact on the 480. Just guessing here.

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