Streaming in 2023: quality, availability, and community growth — year review

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What improved in the streaming landscape during 2023? Community members share their highlights.
 
Biggest improvement in 2023: 4K HDR becoming standard rather than premium in paid services.
 
Most established paid services now offer full 4K HDR across their channel catalog.
 
H.265/HEVC remains dominant for 4K. AV1 is emerging but hardware support is still expanding.
 
Nvidia Shield Pro and Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen both support AV1 hardware decode.
 
For most users H.265 4K at 25-35Mbps delivers quality that is hard to improve upon practically.
 
EPG accuracy improved significantly across the industry in 2023 with all major apps updating engines.
 
Multi-screen viewing became mainstream — TiviMate multi-screen is genuinely practical.
 
CDN infrastructure upgrades resulted in fewer peak-hour issues compared to 2022.
 
Catch-up windows extended: many services moved from 3 days to 7 days of catch-up.
 
Less fly-by-night services, more established providers with multi-year track records.
 
For new users in late 2023, the risk/quality ratio is substantially better than 2020.
 
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