Netflix 4k licence for Star Trek Discovery

juno_first · 3 Oct 2017 at 20:42

Last week on 25th Sep. Star Trek Discovery Premierd in 4k HDR/DV in the UK.
This week on 2nd Oct it's limited to 1080p HDR/DV.
I called Netflix & they said they don't have a licence to stream the Netflix show in 4k, something about the producers & they didn't know when they can get a 4k license.

Does anyone know when Netflix will allow the UK to watch this in 4k again?

Is it in 4k in the US & if so would a VPN work? Anyone know a VPN that works

juno_first · 3 Oct 2017 at 21:28

Ouch, that sucks for the Yanks. Thx
Wonder why CBS stopped Netflix showing it the World in 4k.

juno_first · 4 Oct 2017 at 18:59

Yeah the first 2 episodes were deffo in 4k.
Watched ep3 last night & the difference was very noticeable. The space in the space scenes was dark grey instead of black like it was last week even though it's still DV. I tried turning down the brightness but it just made everything else too dark... why would they reduce the colour gamut but still output as DV?
Some scenes looked to be at 720p as the difference in quality was so much, especially the dark scenes... It don't help the show seems to have been made for HDR/DV.

I can't watch anymore episodes like this, it's as bad as my neighbours kodi box.
We're not allowed CBS 4k DV in the UK & Netflix won't allow us to watch it in 4k. It's not on Sky.

Ive seriously gone off Netflix now so will wait a few years until it's on terrestrial 4k HLG lol.

juno_first · 5 Oct 2017 at 13:28

This all makes sense now as to why the pic quality was better the first 2 episodes last week & why now all 3 episodes are blurred & lacking colour range (space not black).

1080p can work in HDR as I tested that on Amazon a year ago by restricting the bandwidth.

Hopefully Netflix can sort it out so HDR works properly for those with a HDR TV & still maintain the much better quality as it was on the 25th Sep. App updates?

The app on LG E6 was ok last week.

juno_first · 7 Oct 2017 at 10:19

Hopefully Netflix will soon stream it in the same quality as on the 25th Sep. Which looks to have been a higher bit rated 1080p at rec2020 HDR/DV.
Although, with looking into this I discovered the none prime/kelvin STD is going to be cured by an anti inflammatory Trek tangent with a new show based on prime. Yet more canon fodder for the fans to dissect.