• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    It explains the question of “why do they make this”.

    No.

    What has changed is that studios explicitly work towards compatibility with it.

    There’s no work required.

    Well, there are already those for Android.

    They don’t work without a ton of futzing around with microg and whatnot, and Google is actively trying to break them.

    Some of which are often just fancy frontends for services which are also accessible in a web browser.

    Which doesn’t have the interface that this entire concept is about, and is limited to 720p.

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      1 day ago

      No.

      People work on things they like to work on. Might be hard to understand if you don’t create things for fun or for the challenge or because you have a use case but many people are motivated that way.

      Which doesn’t have the interface that this entire concept is about

      I guess that will mostly depend on whether the web interface detects being using in big screen mode.

      and is limited to 720p.

      Really? Last time I streamed on my laptop I had the impression it was full screen resolution, i.e. 1080p. Might depend on the subscription level, you connection and with which browser.