If Netflix streams it’s 4k video at 15gbhr, that’s a bitrate of roughly 4166kbs. I haven’t seen anything released yet at 384kbs. but if you could be getting 192 for your track, that’ss roughly 21 times as much. That Netflix plan is 14.99 here, Tidal’s plan with the mqa that makes it stream only at 44.1, is 19.99.
Tidal was charging double and using folding down then back up instead of downsampling then upsampling, to save bandwidth costs. MQA was folding everything above 16.44 down to 16.44 rate, to be folded up to 96 by cpu, after that you would have to replace your 10k dac with the same model with a cheap chip first to go higher. Only on Tidal.
Video game distributors will let you download free games at full speed for the rest of your life, if you want. They don’t see a need to conserve bandwidth costs.
