alt Hacker NewsTV stuff doesn't tend to need more than 100Mbps, unless you're playing blu-ray 4k discs which have higher peak rates. Saving a buck or two on the SoC adds up for the manufacturer.
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iknowstuff • yesterday at 10:52 PM
Totally. It's only inconvenient for a total rounding error of a customer who's trying to stream games from cloud or sunshine/moonlight, where it can cost up to 4ms of latency for higher bitrates.
adastra22 • yesterday at 6:10 PM
It is so frustrating that this can bring down the rest of the network to the lowest common denominator. I know it is the fault of a cheap switch, not the TV, but still.
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Even UHD Blu-Ray isn't likely to need sustained transfer rates over 100 Mbps. The spec allows transfer rates of about 128 Mbps, and some discs reportedly have momentary spikes above that, but I suspect the vast majority of titles would be playable over Fast Ethernet, especially if given a few seconds of buffer.