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Netflix users can choose to scale the video quality from Good to Better to Best. This post from MiniTool Video Converter will give you a step-by-step look at how to change quality on Netflix app, iPhone, or Android.

There are three different subscription plans from Netflix, each with a different cost. If you have a Basic account, you can only watch Netflix content in 480p resolution. If you sign up for the Standard plan, you can watch videos in high definition (HD). If you use the Premium plan, you can watch Ultra HD (4K) and HDR content. You can check your account plan to know why you are not able to watch the best videos.

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This wikiHow shows you how to change download and playback quality in the Netflix app using your Android smartphone. Changing the quality of downloads and streaming can help improve your viewing experience. This requires adjusting the data usage settings in Netflix to get started.

There's one type of video quality you can't just select using these steps: 4K. That's because Netflix charges extra for its 4K plan. In order to get 4K video, you'll need to upgrade to a plan which includes that option. From the Account screen, click Change Plan and select a 4K option.

Netflix doesn't give you an option to manually change video quality or to do it while you're watching a video. Netflix detects your available bandwidth and automatically adjust video quality to match it and to deliver video to you. That generally works pretty well and is the best you can do. Changing the video quality won't help when Netflix is buffering.

If your internet should be fast enough to deliver a high-quality stream, but you aren't seeing one, you may have a bandwidth issue. Online games, downloads, and people streaming in other rooms can all slow down your connection to Netflix. Turn off anything that might be using up bandwidth. Otherwise, try troubleshooting your internet connection.

Whenever you watch Netflix, you can adjust the video quality of what you're watching to match your desire. This can come in handy if you want to control how much data you use or how much weight is put on your Wi-Fi network.

First of all, if you've signed up for the Basic plan, you'll only be able to watch content in 480p resolution, which isn't much. Therefore, even if you go into the settings and make changes, it won't help you much.

Subscribers with the Standard plan can watch content in a 1080p resolution, which means HD and Full HD. Premium subscribers get it all; the only limitations imposed on the top resolution levels come from the content itself. With the Premium plan, you can watch Ultra HD (4K) and HDR content. Figuring out which Netflix subscription plan is right for you is definitely a whole process.

Changing Netflix video quality can be done from both the service's website and the mobile app. The changes will help you save data if you have any caps you need to be mindful of. Learning more about how much data Netflix actually uses can be helpful when doing the math.

Now that we have the steps out of the way, we have to mention that you should always be mindful of what Netflix video quality you're using, especially on mobile, as your bill may end up being entirely too high if you have limits on your account.

I have an 49XD8099 with Android 6.0.1. Simply put, to watch "The OA" from Netflix in HDR is unbearable. It's like if they added a wall of fog. Disabling the HDR the image improves considerably, still being a bit washed out. Other shows, when watched in HDR, don't look better either, so much that I decided to have a video mode with HDR off for Netflix only.

I must says that the HDR quality of various new Netflix videos quite improved. I am not sure if the Android TV updates and/or the fact that I watch Netflix via Apple TV 4K helped as well. So, to me it isn't a big issue anymore.

Secondly - im just going though a few posts that have been missed recently and found this one - Reading through, I am unsure on how to help you to be honest - other than suggesting that you choose the non-hdr version of OA

HDR on TVs that doesn't meet the HDR specifications will always look awful and never will be HDR. Just like DD with just 2 speakers is not exactly a DD. And the idea of marketing TVs as HDR while they are not is just a bad idea. Sure, they can process HDR signal but display can't reproduce it in a way that it should look.

I believe it is possible on some 4K HDR content on Netfix.... Or was it Amazon, im now unsure. Basically you could choose the 1080p version over 4K HDR version instead due to it being in another category. I did it not long ago.

I couldn't find any way for Netflix. It is also not possible on a system level to disable HDR. At least not for ATV1. Maybe @Jecht_Sin or someone else has an idea how to achieve that. I think on ATV2 there is an option, see above quote and link to FlatpanelsHD.

The quality standards that is followed by netflix is just great and appreciate teh type of contetn being posted on their sites!!! thumbs up. [Link removed by moderator] is also similar to netflix where one can watch movies,cartoons,daily soaps anytime they feel like.!!

- After posting this I had a chat with Netflix, and no, there are no options to disable HDR in the player. The most one can do, from the settings in the web browser, is to reduce the available bandwidth, so that it will stream at 1080p. - The other option is to simply disable the HDR in the settings for a channel, but that disables it everywhere.

Still the issue is mostly with "The OA" (which I could just avoid watching for this reason and for the other more important reason that it is a stupid show. What a waste of time). Other HDR videos in Netflix look much better, and "Grand Tour" in Amazon looks amazing. So do the HDR demo downloaded from the internet at full bit rates (and they look awful with HDR disabled).

I must also say that Netflix streaming quality, in my opinion, can be disappointing. Many UHD videos look granulated. I have a fiber connection so it isn't a bandwidth issue. I am honestly a bit surprised. Even Youtube videos look better!

Sorry, sometime the English words flips in my brain. I meant an image mode. Then I have got also confused with the inputs (like HDMI 2 vs App (Video) ). Anyway, from Android changing the HDR to NO in a image mode (like custom) it puts HDR NO in all modes.

I once had an XD85 with edge-lit IPS panel in a permanently well lit room where varying viewing angles could happen. A locally dimmed VA wouldn't have been any better in any way and even inferior in some ways. It had zero clouding or light bleed. You are pretty much playing the panel lottery with every LCD. This is more a problem of edge vs. direct lighting than IPS vs. VA though (and probably the price you pay). IPS can make sense when chosen carefully. If you are looking for a good HDR movie experience in the living room, IPS most probably isn't your best friend.

I think it is really bad practice to use differenent panels for different sizes of the same model like it is the case with the XE85. The 75" has totally different characteristics compared to smaller sizes. Most online reviews of the XE85 just don't apply to the 75" version.

I'm glad i came across this thread and it's not just me Netflix HDR is playing up with!

I have a KD-43XF7596BU in a bedroom and as soon as i click play on an HDR title the netflix app seems to completely adjust the picture settings which drasticly reduces the depth of the blacks and dark colours.

I read somewhere that the app was optamising the picture settings for the higher end spec Sony TV's....Seems like it's doing the oposite for the lower end spec TV's to me!

I've noticed quite a differance in quality between HDR titles too. The Punisher seems to have a lot of noise in the brighter areas of the picture no matter my setting. Other HDR titles seem better.

Far more impressed with Amazon HDR, when i eventually find titles.

Sony had never acknowledged this but the last firmware update just fixed it! I have a xbr65x900e and the last firmware notes say that it "corrects brightness settings in certain circumstances". Since the upgrade, all my dark HDR issues are gone! Which suggests to me that the original issue was a bug. So I guess the "circumstances" were every time HDR was enabled.

I'm running software version: PKG6.5629.0177EUA which, according to the update options, is the latest update and the Netflix app is 6.0.0 build 2373.

1080p titles are streaming at 3.48Mpbs and Ultra HD / HDR titles are streaming at 15.26Mbps which i tink is correct, and i still see the very noticable white filter applied when playing titles so I don't think it's fixed for me.

The more i read about how this is an intentional filter by Netflix/film makers the more I can live with this, but i'd rather they gave me the choice.

when watching HDR10 Content on Google Movies all is fine, great contrast, colors, deepest blacks and bright whites with the cinema home setting, but Dolby Vision on netflix selects DV Setting in Sony Menu automatically and should have real black levels automatically, but it doesn't. washed out colors and contrast, no black, no real bright whites.