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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

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548 points CharlesW | 1 comments | 05 Dec 25 00:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | source
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_puk ◴[05 Dec 25 06:36 UTC] No.46157453[source]▶
I imagine that's a big part of the drive behind discontinuing Chromecast support..

https://www.androidcentral.com/streaming-tv/chromecast/netfl...

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1. davidmurdoch ◴[06 Dec 25 17:28 UTC] No.46174984[source]▶
I can't figure out an answer to why they'd do this. They're still supporting their custom Chromecast "receiver" app (for now?), which is a standard HTML app. But now they're detecting the Chromecast-capable device model, looking it up in an allowlist, then conditionally showing the device in the Netflix App's Cast UI.

This would mean if you have a new device and an old device in the same network the Netflix app might show only your old device! What?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what they've done here?