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Originally Posted by zamler
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.
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Netflix uses VC1AP at 2600kbps and 3800kbps for HD.
The quality is good but that seems a tad high to me; I've only watched one HD movie on Netflix but it did not look as good as a lot of 4000kbps x264 encodes that I've got.