Netflix can now serve 100Gbit/s of video (so something like 12,500 individual 4K streams) with an appliance using 100 watts of power. That’s 8 milliwatts for each 4K stream.
Remember that number the next time someone tells you that watching a Netflix show is as bad as driving an SUV or some shit.
@vampirdaddy The only conceivable reason for this is that your TV and/or Fire stick is shit. HDMI encryption and decryption wouldn't be any significant fraction of 40W.
**edit**: I was thinking of power consumption related to computery stuff such as signal processing, which shouldn't ever go that high, but maybe it's something else?
@vampirdaddy I was fairly confident about what it wouldn't be, but I'm pretty clueless about what it could be …
Though maybe it's not the TV doing something stupid after all? One thing I just thought of: What if the Fire stick delivers an HDR (10-bit) signal and the source you're comparing it to only SDR? If the TV has an LED backlight, it might be turned up higher when HDR footage is playing, or maybe even just when switching to that input?
OLED, OTOH, would only change peak power draw.
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