Forget Netfliks in 4K and HDR in Safari on Mac. It s a luxury for the few

Safari will finally allow you to watch 4K content with HDR support on Netflix, but only a few Mac owners will be able to take advantage of this novelty.

Safari is a great browser, but its Achilles heel has always been high-quality video playback. Due to the lack of support for appropriate codecs, video on demand services such as YouTube and Netflix limited the resolution of materials that Mac users could enjoy.

HDR technology support was also usually a problem. This means that customers who paid for access to materials with additional information about colors, who had access to a monitor supporting this technology, had to do without taste. This is fortunately changing.

Netflix in Safari - 4K and HDR support is coming

High resolution and HDR technology within Netflix will be officially supported in the new version of Safari in macOS 11 Big Sur , when it will be officially released in autumn 2020. Thanks to this, users will not have to use a browser other than system.

There is only one snag: to play HDR (and Dolby Vision) video in Safari, you must have a Mac manufactured in 2018 or newer. Older generations of Apple devices will not be able to take advantage of this novelty and in their cases customers will be stuck with HD resolution and SDR mode.

It is possible that Apple made this move to guard against further accusations of abusing its position and seeking a monopoly. After last year's premiere of Apple TV +, the Cupertino company finally became a direct competitor of Netflix and other video-on-demand services.

In turn, Netflix is ​​not the only video on demand service Apple has recently apologized to.

For years, Tim Cook's company ignored YouTube users who could not enjoy 4K support on mobile devices and from the Apple TV 4K. This is also changing now due to the V9 codec support on tvOS 14 , iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 .

The question remains, what about YouTube in 4K resolution and with 4K support in Safari on Mac computers. It remains to be hoped that it is only a matter of time and Apple will add support also in this respect before the release of the refreshed Safari and macOS 11 Big Sur .



Forget Netfliks in 4K and HDR in Safari on Mac. It's a luxury for the few

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