[CastagnaIT]

@"Stefive83"
Quick question.
When the chromium version of Microsoft Edge gets released, do you think it's likely 1080 HD and 4K will then work for Windows 10 devices?
Next Windows upgrade is due out on the 12th November, but won't ship with the final version of Edge, so looks like it's probably going to be early next year.
I downloaded the beta version a couple of days ago and enabled Widevine DRM, PlayReady DRM for Windows 10 and PlayReady Experimental HEVC Decoding options. Now getting 4K and full 1080 HD Netflix streams using this browser.....

M$ Edge always worked with 4K, is also written in the netflix specification,
the current problem with Widevine is that it does not allow a separate process for hardware video decoding so is all in one with the decryption
while with Playready can do it, the decryption is a separate process from hw decoding for this there is 4K support

would be a step forward if widewine coverge in a similar way to playready
however sooner or later it will be necessary a change by netflix or widewine, if the video streams in the future will have a higher quality and it will no longer be possible to continue with a software decoding ...
already now 1080P with high bitrate movies having a 4 core CPU fails to do the job well in scenes with high peaks of bitrate...

if M$ abandons PlayReady in favour of Widevine, then things will probably change faster because there will be no more 4K support through the browser