I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don’t know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is working.

So now I’m here pirating a show that should be available to me through a service I pay for. Gabe was right, piracy is a service problem.

  • spacecadet@lemm.eeEnglish
    57·
    2 years ago

    Also, I pay for 4k streaming but because of compression or something else they are definitely not sending me 4k content. I was watching a movie on Netflix that I had forgot I pirated. Both were 4K but the quality of the pirated one was far superior.

    • Elise@beehaw.orgEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      Youtube has that too where it says 1080p but actually it’s potato quality.

      • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
        221·
        2 years ago

        I’ve noticed a new resolution setting: 1080p Premium HD Enhanced Bitrate.

        Image

        So yeah, 1080p confirmed potato. Upgrade to new potatoless 1080p now!

        • Chinzon@beehaw.orgEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          I think I’ll just upgrade to sailing the high seas rather than paying these clowns

    • weedwhacking@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Really depends on the service. I find 4K streaming from Apple and Disney are “close enough” to my Blu-rays I can’t tell the difference unless I stick my nose up to the TV. Now, Max? Hulu? YouTube? All “4k” garbage is so low bitrate I need to take my glasses off to enjoy it

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        23·
        2 years ago

        Close to your 4k blu rays? Because regular blu ray discs they play on regular blu ray players don’t do 4k.

        If you’re comparing to regular blu rays, you’re not comparing to 4k.

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            02·
            2 years ago

            Yes, which was the point of my comment. A significant number of people have no fucking idea that they need a different DVD player to watch their 4k DVD in 4k.

        • TheAutisticSlavicBoy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          4k streaming will look better than a regular blu ray 100% of the time

          good resolution terrible bitrate may be worse than worse resolution better bitrate

    • araozu@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      Louis Rossmann made a video about it noday I think. They (apparently) don’t serve 4k in browsers, only if you use their propietary apps and allow to send them all your data

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Where do you watch it from? You need to use the app on Windows to get 4k content, they don’t provide it when watching through the website. Same for Disney and Prime… It made me switch to just using the apps directly on my TV instead…

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      if you streamed it at the proper bitrate you would be using a ton of data at 4k, even streaming from my own server to my tv sometimes is too much since my TV only has a 100mbit nic on it on films like 1917 the bit rate would spike on some scenes and it will start to stutter or stop playing all together, for that I had to use my xbox or maybe Ill invest in a roku or shield with a 1gb nic. but for regular streaming you might get the resolution in 4k but you’ll see in dark scenes these like squares and artifacts because of how its compressed down to be able to get to you through the internet while not annihilating your bandwidth