God, I do hope it is a software issue: I don't even want to think about the pain of returning it, going back to the 7 Plus I had, waiting for the problem to get fixed et cetera.



By the way, I'd like to contribute to the thread by adding a few data of my own:



- I experienced the same microstutter issue in "Lost in Space" S01E01 around 37-40 minutes mark: the forest shots are pretty low in framerate and the kid does move in a laggy way



- If I try and play x265 4K HDR .mkv videos on nPlayer (currently one of the best iOS players), there seems to be some stuttering also, and it's pretty noticeable. Funny thing is that this happens also on 1080p SDR .mkvs. Even funnier is that these 1080p SDR .mkvs play extremely smoothly if I change the decoder to software under the nPlayer options, so I'm guessing... we have to wait for some kind of hardware optimization update from Netflix developers as well as nPlayer developers... or is just wishful thinking?



If anyone knows anything, let me know: these performance issues on a brand new 1,500 Euros phone are a royal pain in the arse.