It&#x27;s completely normal for Netflix to work on that and end-consumers wont see a difference.<p>That&#x27;s exactly what&#x27;s been done by illegal release groups (pirated content) which are very picky when it comes to time to release (encoding&#x2F;sharing) and do their best to encode fast enough while having a good viewable quality.<p>When it comes to encoding, even for a large library like Netflix&#x27;s, time to encode is always lesser than time&#x2F;bandwith saved while sharing&#x2F;streaming.<p>As of now, Netflix 1080p raw content (not transcoded) is delivered at a bitrate of 5200kbps&#x2F;5900kbps with no differences between the content (animated or live action - here I compared BoJack Horseman to The Ridiculous 6). 
While many (or even all) high quality release groups encode animated bluray at around 3000Kbps (1080p) (around 5500kbps for very high quality) while live action is encoded at around 11.0Mbps. The same difference is applied when the content is capped from TV and then encoded.