It afresh came to ablaze that a cardinal of Android phones are clumsy to beck HD video through casework like Netflix, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Prime Video. If you're afraid that your phone may be affected, there's a simple apparatus you can use to acquisition out for abiding if you can absolutely beck video in 720p or higher.
In early-December, a few OnePlus 5T users discovered the accessory lacks the adeptness to beck HD video through the above accepted services. Unfortunately, there are a brace added Android phones afflicted by this issue, including models by ZTE.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and the like crave acceptance to assure the absorb holders (i.e., cine studios) and their content, so it's no abruptness that this affair stems from the DRM (digital rights management) implemented by the alive services. All of these casework that are abrogation its users with 480p videos on Android use Widevine, Google's own artefact and one of the most-used DRM solutions accessible for Android and added platforms.
There are several altered tiers of DRM aegis provided by Widevine, and best flagship accessories on Android accept the accomplished akin of protection, Widevine L1. This akin of aegis allows alive of high-definition agreeable (HD, FHD, QHD, 4K), but several mid-tier Android phones from OnePlus and ZTE are not certified for L1 and instead accept Widevine L3 certification.
Level 1 requires hardware-backed DRM measures to action adequate content. In adjustment for a accessory to affectation HD video from a Widevine-backed service, said accessory charge abutment L1: L3 will alone affectation SD video behindhand of your cable or accessory capabilities.
So, there we accept it. With L3 certification, users can beck accepted analogue agreeable but annihilation in HD. Not alike 720p. All of the accepted OnePlus handsets abridgement L1 certification, including the anew appear OnePlus 5T, admitting it is account acquainted that OnePlus claims an amend is advancing anon to accompany L1 support.
If all OnePlus phones and some ZTE models are afflicted by this, you're apparently apprehensive whether your phone supports L1 or L3. To do that, you alone charge a distinct app!
Step 1: Install 'DRM Info' from the Play Store
DRM Info, a free, ad-supported app in the Google Play Store, advised by Android Fung in Hong Kong, is advised to analysis for the akin of Widevine DRM acceptance on your Android device. Hit up the articulation beneath to get it installed on your device.
Step 2: Accessible the App & Analysis Widevine Level
Overall, DRM Info is a actual basal app — it alone has one folio to attending at. When you accessible the app, you'll be greeted with a deluge of advice about your device. Just beneath this is a arrangement of DRM standards.
Have a quick attending beneath the branch Google Widevine Modular DRM, and analysis the appraisement abutting to Security Level. If you see L1 listed, you're acceptable to go with alive all high-definition content. On the added hand, you're ashore alive SD movies if your accessory is certified at the L3 level.
If your phone is in the account or lower mid-range category, you ability not be decidedly afraid to see an L3 certification. It is, however, absolutely aberrant to see accessories like the OnePlus 5T and ZTE Axon M not certified for L1 streaming. With amount tags at $500 and more, users should apprehend high-definition alive through the best accepted services, with a 720p an complete minimum.
We will accumulate you acquaint on OnePlus 5T updates to see if the abutting one includes L1 support. In the meantime, let us apperceive the make/model of your phone and which Widevine DRM acceptance it supports!
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