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So 4K Blu-ray is eight times better at this than standard streaming.

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Three different ways to show colors in a gradient, of different quality levels.

What does having a lower bitrate mean in practice?

The higher data of Blu-ray means less banding, offering more natural and real images.

Next up is motion.

an example of colour banding

Three different ways to show colors in a gradient, of different quality levels.

Think of a still camera looking at a person who’s talking.

Well, you have a problem each frameneedsto include more data than the bitrate is capable of.

So you end up with detail within the pixels being lost, and things look unclear and smeared.

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Streaming services have Dolby Atmos sound, but it’s always compressed.

Not badly I think this is an area of streaming that 99% of us can happily live with.

The way it was meant to be seen

There’s another aspect that isn’t technical.

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