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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I do think that companies like NetFlix need to take some sort of responsibility vis a vi streaming either by compressing it along the network and then uncompressing it at the end user station or something to that effect.
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The video is already highly compressed, no further compression (beyond maybe 1%) is possible. They can lower the bitrate of the video further but then quality will suffer. Codecs have become much better over the last few years, so what you are getting is approaching the practical limits of perceptual compression.
Disclaimer: I don't know what codec(s) these services use, so it is possible they could switch to something more efficient.