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Netflix just arrived in my country and they offered me one free month for try so I went and almost puked when I saw the video quality.

I activated the Premium plan which is supposedly Ultra HD and I went into Playback settings and set it to High and the quality of the video is not even as good as 720p on YouTube. What the hell? I tried increasing bitrate with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S but nothing changed. I tried in Edge and in Opera... I cant try Netflix app because it is not available in Windows Store for whatever reason.

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Netflix just arrived in my country and they offered me one free month for try so I went and almost puked when I saw the video quality.

I activated the Premium plan which is supposedly Ultra HD and I went into Playback settings and set it to High and the quality of the video is not even as good as 720p on YouTube. What the hell? I tried increasing bitrate with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S but nothing changed. I tried in Edge and in Opera... I cant try Netflix app because it is not available in Windows Store for whatever reason.

It will automatically adjust quality down if your internet speed is not good enough. How is your connection?

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Netflix just arrived in my country and they offered me one free month for try so I went and almost puked when I saw the video quality.

I activated the Premium plan which is supposedly Ultra HD and I went into Playback settings and set it to High and the quality of the video is not even as good as 720p on YouTube. What the hell? I tried increasing bitrate with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S but nothing changed. I tried in Edge and in Opera... I cant try Netflix app because it is not available in Windows Store for whatever reason.

nope, the quality is great for me in the US, whats your internet connection? 

 

 

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It will automatically adjust quality down if your internet speed is not good enough. How is your connection?

100/10 so I doubt it is my connection. I can watch 4k YouTube in 60FPS no problem.

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100/10 so I doubt it is my connection. I can watch 4k YouTube in 60FPS no problem.

oh, yeah that should be more than enough... hm...

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If it has just got launched in your country, Netfilix could be having high server traffic or could be temporarily limiting quality.

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If it has just got launched in your country, Netfilix could be having high server traffic or could be temporarily limiting quality.

May be the possibility.

By the way this is the quality I am getting.

Pixels.. pixels everywhere!

 

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Try to use the Netflix app from the windows 10 store, for me it has better video quality compared to chrome and firefox :o

As I said ... when I go to Windows Store and find the Netflix app it says "Netflix is not available".

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If it just launched they might still be populating a local server with content and they're doing the low-quality encodings first.

 

Or they simply haven't fully rolled out their servers to deal with your country and don't want to be bandwidth constrained.

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If it just launched they might still be populating a local server with content and they're doing the low-quality encodings first.

 

Or they simply haven't fully rolled out their servers to deal with your country and don't want to be bandwidth constrained.

Exactly.

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