Why is Netflix doing this?

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Seinfeld, season 03, episode 01.
My TV is a 1080p display.
  1. On the Roku Streaming Stick+: 1080p / 0.43 mbps
  2. On the LG TV app: 720p / 3.40 mbps
  3. On the Fire TV 4k: 1080p/ 0.43 mbps
  4. On a different, newer LG 1080p TV: 1080p / 5.34 mbps
  5. On the Roku express: 1080p / 4.50 mbps
  6. On a rather old Samsung TV, very slow: 1080p / 7.12 mbps
WTF is going on here? The last three examples are at my parent's place. Every other streaming app work as it should, full video quality. My Roku and FireTshould be more than capable of handling higher bitrates.
 
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Your TV…Using Ethernet or WiFi?
Where are you located…which country?
 
One explanation is Wireless vs. Wired, assuming that your newer LG is connected through Ethernet.
Although that doesn't explain the last two at all. You're lucky about that however, my parents are always telling me about how they can't even watch streaming TV, because it's buffering or won't load at all.
I am their Tech Support, but I guess that's basically all of us & our parents.
 
Seinfeld, season 03, episode 01.
My TV is a 1080p display.
  1. On the Roku Streaming Stick+: 1080p / 0.43 mbps
  2. On the LG TV app: 720p / 3.40 mbps
  3. On the Fire TV 4k: 1080p/ 0.43 mbps
  4. On a different, newer LG 1080p TV: 1080p / 5.34 mbps
  5. On the Roku express: 1080p / 4.50 mbps
  6. On a rather old Samsung TV, very slow: 1080p / 7.12 mbps
WTF is going on here? The last three examples are at my parent's place. Every other streaming app work as it should, full video quality. My Roku and FireTshould be more than capable of handling higher bitrates.

1) What's your Internet speed?

2) Did you give the HD stream enough time to settle in (ex. 1 or 2 minutes)?

Someone reported super low bit rates on D+ Boba Fett (4K DV) and Netflix Witcher S2 (4K DV) but here is what showed up on ATV 4K.

The normal bit rates for 4K HDR streams on D+ and Netflix.
 

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Your TV…Using Ethernet or WiFi?
Where are you located…which country?
Hey, thanks for the help.
All devices are using the 5ghz wifi band. I'm in Chile.
1) What's your Internet speed?

2) Did you give the HD stream enough time to settle in (ex. 1 or 2 minutes)?
1) 500 mbps.

2) The whole episode. On the Roku express and LG TV app it starts on the highest bitrate right away.

I suppose it's a bug when you have a 4K device connected to a 1080p TV.
 
2) Did you give the HD stream enough time to settle in (ex. 1 or 2 minutes)?
So, as far as I've been able to gather, this is a bug in the Netflix app, on 4K devices connected to 1080p TVs. I just tried an old Roku Express I had lying around which is the 1080p version, and Seinfeld is back to bitrates above 5 mbps.
 
Netflix is just dodgy AF. leave it and couple back in a month and it'll be fixed.

I had an issue 2 months ago where netflix on a few of my devices would only show 1080p not 4K HDR. emailed them, went on chat, went on forums blahblahblah... no fix worked. I gave up and forgot about it. 3 weeks later, working back to normal.
 
Seinfeld, season 03, episode 01.
My TV is a 1080p display.
  1. On the Roku Streaming Stick+: 1080p / 0.43 mbps
  2. On the LG TV app: 720p / 3.40 mbps
  3. On the Fire TV 4k: 1080p/ 0.43 mbps
  4. On a different, newer LG 1080p TV: 1080p / 5.34 mbps
  5. On the Roku express: 1080p / 4.50 mbps
  6. On a rather old Samsung TV, very slow: 1080p / 7.12 mbps
WTF is going on here? The last three examples are at my parent's place. Every other streaming app work as it should, full video quality. My Roku and FireTshould be more than capable of handling higher bitrates.

Different codecs may also becoming into play here and further scewing results.

Older devices will probably use H.264 while newer ones should be on H.265
 
Seinfeld, season 03, episode 01.
My TV is a 1080p display.
  1. On the Roku Streaming Stick+: 1080p / 0.43 mbps
  2. On the LG TV app: 720p / 3.40 mbps
  3. On the Fire TV 4k: 1080p/ 0.43 mbps
  4. On a different, newer LG 1080p TV: 1080p / 5.34 mbps
  5. On the Roku express: 1080p / 4.50 mbps
  6. On a rather old Samsung TV, very slow: 1080p / 7.12 mbps
WTF is going on here? The last three examples are at my parent's place. Every other streaming app work as it should, full video quality. My Roku and FireTshould be more than capable of handling higher bitrates.
This is so weird. I literally just watched that very same episode and went online to see wtf was happening. I’m also on a 500 mbps connection, so it’s not my internet.
 

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