4K streaming is a joke on Amazon Prime Video
Summary No two streaming services are alike Compression is unavoidable but can be managed differently Ditching 4K on Prime improved streaming quality ✕ Remove AdsI've got a problem with Amazon Prime Video. It's nothing to do with their content, which on the whole is quite good, with a solid selection of movies and TV shows. But when I tune in to watch the latest episode of Reacher, I keep bumping up against the same problem: Prime's terrible video compression. Streaming has never been the place to get the highest quality video. That has long been reserved for physical media, like Blu-rays and UHD Blu-rays. While all formats rely on software to compress video, and often audio, the limited bandwidth for online streaming means more compression and worse quality. Still, some streaming services excel at delivering video quality, which, despite all the compression, manages to get close enough to Blu-ray quality that even videophiles will be mostly satisfied, if they can even tell the differe...