Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Pocophone F1 Has A Problem…”.
Today’S sponsor is Volta the last cable you’ll ever need, so I’ve been using the polka phone f1 yeah. I told you, you didn’t believe me. The SIM card is in you can see. I even have a couple of bars there right now. I have it on the table next to an s9 plus, and I’m going to tell you why in a second year, it’s because many of you guys have been hitting me up on Twitter asking a very specific question about this poke foam and that question is specifically About how the polka phone deals with drm content, that is, digital rights management, it’s a terrible term, nobody likes it, but it’s it’s a reality of modern content and the Internet.
Some of it is protected for obvious reasons and that content lives in places like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, BBC and other places that stuff is protected and because of that there’s a whole protocol. There’S a whole hardware. Software scenario that’s necessary for decrypting that encrypted content. Now news started to break about an issue on this particular device when it comes to decrypting that encrypted content that lives in places like Netflix like Amazon.
It’S not that it can’t do it at all, but it can’t do it in HD. I thought I needed to make you aware, since I’ve done a couple videos on it now, and I know it generated a lot of interests, a lot of you guys are asking me about it. It turns out that it is true. This unit is affected because of that, let me give you a little more detail here.
So there’s something called Widevine Widevine support and that’s what’s necessary to decode in full HD or even in some cases. Hdr content from sites like Netflix, the poco f1 comes with Widevine DRM l3, but wide vying l1 is what’s necessary to decode in full HD resolution from Netflix, Amazon and so on. Instead, on a device like the poco, you are stuck at 540 P on Netflix now, because of the number of tweets that I got regarding this particular topic, I real it must be important to allow to you to be able to look at HD content and it Kind of makes sense, especially if this is your main display now.
This is not something that can be updated through software. It’S not. It can’t be addressed via software update. It’S not like. Eventually, it’s going to support HD resolution on Netflix unless to some sort of modification to the actual physical unit. Now this particular problem is not exclusive to the polka phone or Xiaomi devices. In fact, it happened previously to oneplus devices as well in the 5 and the 5 t.
Now I don’t know if this is something that was just overlooked or if it was a cost-saving thing, I’m not a hundred percent certain, but nonetheless, at the moment, if you purchased this phone, you will not be watching Netflix in HD. So the purpose of this video right here is to not only advise you and let you know about that flaw, but to also test how big of a problem that is. So I have a galaxy s: 9, on the right hand, side the polka phone f1 on the left hand, side I’m going to launch Netflix on both of them.
These two pages look very similar. While they are it’s the same show, but what you’ll notice is on the s9. You see the HDR logo. That’S for this particular show. If you pick another show that might not be available in HDR.
You’Ll just see the HD logo. Instead, but regardless of which show you pick on this device over here, you will never see an HD or HD R logo on the content. This will be locked in to 540 P. The question is: is that enough pixels? How big of a difference is that going to be, and so on so let’s load something up and take a look here: top device s9 that’s running in HD and then the device below at 540 P the poco f1. Now, of course, this is a difficult thing to evaluate you’re looking at it through a camera lens, then back on your phone that you happen to be watching this, but I can attempt to do my own analysis. The HD image looks better, but surprisingly, on a display.
This size, the 540 P version of Netflix, looks pretty good like totally manageable. Look if you’re a super, Netflix or Amazon. Video enthusiast, probably gon na, want the best resolution available – that’s understandable, but if you’re a casual viewer and you’re already on a cellular network and watching your data consumption, I don’t know you might be better off just watching it in 540 P anyways. It would be hard for me personally, because, generally you want the best capability.
You want the highest resolution available wherever possible. That said, YouTube completely fine Full HD. Actually, I should show that off real quick YouTube does not utilize. This type of DRM as you’ll see on YouTube.
We can go up to 1080p. This is an unboxing, video and, of course, full res. Thank goodness, I’m a little less worried. I don’t think this should be a deal-breaker.
It’S not a massive enough difference. Stepping down to the 540 P that the polka phone f1 is capable of, I think it’s less, of a big deal than then some of you out. There might think it would have been not the deal breaker now, of course, this doesn’t conclude my evaluation. I told you I wanted to do an extended scenario like I have with so many other smartphones recently, and I’m going to continue to do that with this one.
I can tell you that so far it’s been very promising. This is my main phone. My SIM card is in here as promised. I have a lot of thoughts on it, but that’s gon na continue to evolve a little bit more is shaping up with my my final evaluation and feelings regarding this device at this price point there you have it. Yes, a flaw not as major as some people think in my opinion, kind of sucks, but we don’t need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just yet you .