Best Streaming Provider for 4K VIDEO Quality?

[samlop10]

Originally Posted by pghflyer

This is awesome - thanks samplop10!! Yeah this is why I keep my top 20-30 titles on blu-ray disc, but still great to know the best places for everything else.

Just curious - all those specs on your display screenshots in yellow, is that native information available via Apple TV or you getting that from your receiver or somewhere else? I don't have a single Apple product but if it is from Apple TV that is nice - I don't trust most of these services to always send me the right thing and this is exactly what I wish some of my streaming products (ex. Samsung TV apps, Chromecast Ultra) could tell me. I assume you have gig/high speed internet service so that wouldn't be a limiting factor at all?

I will take all your effort and update my top post later today, this is more support and info than I thought this question would get, thank you!!!

No problem. It was a good thing to know for me as well and something I wondered about until now.

That info is from the Apple TV 4K, although you need to connect it to a software with a Mac wirelessly to 'activate' the option to view that data. It's a pretty straightforward process but it's a pain keeping the Mac and Apple TV actually connected. And yes, the place I'm at has fiber optic and I'm using ATT's 1GB/s service. You can actually see the downstream for the device itself in the pictures (next to 'network bandwidth'). All the services were detecting 60 - 177 Mb/s, which is more than enough for their max bitrates. The only exception was Amazon Prime (it was detecting 16 Mb/s for some reason), but then again, doing a quick search online reveals Amazon's max bitrate is 15 Mb/s anyway. From reading the Wiki article on Vudu, it seems it could theoretically go as high as 50 Mb/s, but I have yet to read about or see any device that actually reaches that high, let alone go over 20 Mb/s.

Could I suggest when you update to include the average and max bitrates in the first post?

This is for the Apple TV of course. I imagine it could change depending on the device, but from my experience of streaming using various devices (Shield TV, Roku, Xbox One X, PS4, TV's internal apps, blu-ray players, etc.) the Apple TV 4K has been the most stable / capable so far when considering all the streaming services.

Edit: another thing to consider is that some content is not available on Movies Anywhere since not all studios participate in it (namely Lionsgate and Paramount). So having both iTunes and Movies anywhere are pretty much the two must-haves if you want to have the option to access all the movies with highest streaming quality.