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What differentiates Edge from Chromium on Windows?

Edge hasn't been around as long as Netflix has provided in-browser service, I'd have thought Chrome w/ Widevine would have been part of Netflix' success.

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Edge supports PlayReady in addition to Widevine. PlayReady is what gates the higher quality stream. No idea what the technical reason is for this.

Honestly the whole thing is stupid. 4k videos of everything on Netflix are available on the high seas. What’s the point?

Right now stripping Netflix's 4K DRM is possible but it requires buying a new Nvidia Shield TV for every release you do. If you could strip the DRM without buying expensive hardware every time people might be slightly quicker to release the entire 4K Netflix catalog.

I've tried to do a bit of searching around to learn more about how this works, but failed. Got any citations?

That is interesting how does that work where you have to sacrifice a shield per release?

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