This review is regarding the apps that can be side-loaded onto various tv boxes and sticks to enable streaming of movies and TV shows.
My friend just got a 7.2 channel AV receiver before asking me to house sit and has a device side-loaded onto Kodi (LEGAL NOTE: Kodi itself does not provide any of these streaming apps and must be "cracked" to get them) with the most popular apps to allow streaming of fairly new movies and tv episodes. What we've found is that the audio as well as the video on 99% of the files seem to be down-sampled to stereo and not higher than 720P resolution.
In fact, I only saw one movie, published last year. on which the audio was not down-sampled to stereo.
So none but one movie I've seen at my friend's house while house sitting had multi-channel audio output.
Regarding resolution, No streaming files were 4k, only one I found supposedly available in 1080 which could not be watched. Indeed he vast majority are only 720p.
In retrospect I really don't think this form of piracy is piracy, or at least not piracy that studios should be concerned about since the audio and video files available are vastly inferior to the genuine products.
The quality of the pirated files streaming through the most popular side-loaded apps on people's TV boxes and TV sticks simply is not high enough to justify studios spending millions of dollars to hunt the providers down and squish them like the bugs they are.
In fact, it is my subjective opinion that these inferior files may even be good advertisement for the sales of Blu-ray Discs. I think an avid disc collector may see it in it's inferior form on one of these devices and if the movie is very good, go out and invest in a Blu-ray disk of the title.
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