> Your home internet connection doesn't even have the bandwidth to stream the quality of a BR.

This has not been true for most people for a while now. Even the high end of 4K blue rays tops out around 100 Mbps, which is achievable on pretty much any broadband connection.

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HelloMcFly a day ago | parent | next [-]

> which is achievable on pretty much any broadband connection

It's only achievable in a real sense if there are video providers out there offering the content at that bitrate. The absolute best you can hope for in optimal conditions is from Apple TV+ at between 30-40 Mbps which is equivalent to what you get with a non-4k blu-ray.

	▲	swiftcoder 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For sure, my only contention is that the bandwidth is there, which makes the paltry bitrates Netflix et al will provide you even more frustrating...

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mikestew a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, you’re right. Despite Grandpa over here having a 1Gb fiber connection, my head was apparently stuck in 2005 thinking 50 Mbps downstream internet is some kind of high-faluten’ wizardry.

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saturn8601 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Netflix isn't serving 100Mbps though.

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deltoidmaximus a day ago | parent [-]

Are any streaming services actually serving that bitrate?

	▲	Anamon a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sony's is.