said by Ytsejamer1:I'm not sure of why Netflix would be pushing a format that requires even more bandwidth at a time providers are presumably choking down on them.
Because they won the OpenConnect / Name & Shame campaign, hands down. Hate is the simplest emotion to reach, and the MSM danced to Reed's fiddle, with months of cable-bashing.
There is no reason to believe, in light of the general public opposition to the Comcast merger, that pushing the 4K envelope won't further the cause, as $8/month customers grouse that their $5K TVs won't display one show in 4K for 13 episodes.