editing - Did the director and editor for House of Cards make aesthetic decisions based on H.264 encoding limitations?

Cross fades and pans are more common in (low budget) television for some reason, and even more common in home video—I have my theories about the causes, but that does not affect this question.

View any quality movie and you'll see that almost every cut (99+%) is a classic straight cut. For extra effect, maybe there is a fade to black or fade from black. The standard advice for editing is (paraphrasing) a "straight cut keeps the viewer's attention on the story.... A spiffy transition shifts attention to the editing or director and away from the story."[1]

As for the production of House of Cards, there probably was no reason to assume exclusion of Blu-ray and DVD releases—though Blu-ray uses H.264 too. Anyway, what limitation of H.264 would be a problem with cross fades or dissolves? H.264's weighted prediction feature was specifically designed to optimize cross fades. Even the messiest dissolve simply uses a little more bandwidth for a second or two, just like a straight cut to an image with little in common with the prior image.

To me, it seemed like they were producing the show to medium or greater budget movie standards (aside from Spacey's narration and breaking the fourth wall) rather than avoiding any particular technical issue.