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I also have optical drives for backup and music/movies. I tried Netflix for movies but they have very few movies and for what they have, quality is low (few titles in - network dependent - HD and terrible sound - need to pump up the volume on TV until 70 % to be able to listen normally). And a 720p DVD looks better than an 1080p Netflix.

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sounds like you have terrible internet or devices that you’re streaming on? I’m regularly streaming 4k/hdr/atmos movies on Netflix. I’m sure I could find some compression artifacts if I did a side by side comparison with a blu ray but it’s not noticeable in isolation.

I have gig internet and streaming still doesn’t match. There are definitely artifacts in some scenes at 4k. My kids have made me watch Frozen 2 a half dozen times and there’s a scene at the end where the reindeer are all running in a circle that turns up blocky crap every time.

With that said, I haven’t put in a physical disk for a movie in years. I tolerate the artifacts for the convenience.

The image in some movies (eg. Life of Brian) is ok. The sound as i said is strange. The image on Star trek DS9 is terrible. Looks like 320x240 scaled with gaussian blur applied over the image.

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