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The news emerged via user reports, particularly on the primary Netflix Reddit community, in which users claimed that ads for entirely different series would play between episodes of a given show's binging. One initial claim said that "unskippable" ads for the AMC series Better Call Saul appeared between episodes of Rick & Morty and that this ad appeared while using Netflix's smart TV app on an LG set in the UK. Replies to that thread included an allegation that a video ad for I Am A Killer (a Netflix-produced true-crime series) appeared between episodes of the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.
An American Netflix user offered more details for exactly how the ads appear:
After the episode ended, I got a screen saying "More Shameless up next... " then the title card slid off screen, and it continued with, "but first check out Insatiable" [a Netflix-exclusive series] and started playing the trailer.
In a statement given to Ars Technica, Netflix described the change as follows: "We are testing whether surfacing recommendations between episodes helps members discover stories they will enjoy faster." The reasoning, Netflix's statement says, comes from its last controversial decision: to add auto-playing videos, complete with unmuteable audio, while browsing through Netflix content.
Netflix offered a major rebuttal to at least one Reddit claim, pointing out that the ads for Netflix content are entirely skippable.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 20 2018, @05:36PM
For future proofing I am not getting a device until I know it comes with AV1 [wikipedia.org] hardware decoding support, which could mean waiting until 2020. In the interim, devices will probably gain 8K H.265 support [anandtech.com]... woohoo...
AV1 requires no licensing fees. It's also supposed to be more efficient at higher resolutions such as 4K.
That being said, on a small TV or computer, I don't see much benefit to anything above 720p, and I have a system where H.265 720p can work but H.265 1080p comes to a screeching halt (which is just as well since the screen is 1366×768).
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