> the unexpected Bojack Horseman results. I'd bet that Netflix just isn't yet taking advantage of AV1 features designed especially for this kind of animation and synthetic content.

While the percentages look scary, it's only a slight difference (60kbps!) and still around 1mbps average, but with a significant quality boost (very crisp lines and near perfect quality). I bet Netflix could encode at nearly half that bitrate and stay similar to HEVC in quality, but I'm pleased they seem to have made a good tradeoff here.

It's actually quite amazing the quality that AV1 delivers at such low bitrates across the board. I've said it before, but AV1 is almost magical. Which I think is behind the lack of enthusiasm for VVC/h266; is anyone even using that? I've yet to actually see it in the wild.