People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it’s even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate
Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.
Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.
I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)
And piracy gets them from Bluray.
Now that that’s dying I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.
I guess we should buy more Blu-rays. But I don’t have a good space to library all of them… wait a sec… I have an idea…
If you don’t use an “approved” browser Netflix reduces the stream to 320p. God awful service. Screw streaming.
People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it’s even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate
I’d be surprised if the average person can differentiate 720p and 4k
I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.
But 720 feels like garbage to me.
Wasn’t speaking about you.
Depends on the screen size and distance.
At a typical screen size and distance
I mean that’s vague.
I’d say it depends on the content too. On a computer monitor at typical size/distance? Yeah probably. Small text will look much much better.
I don’t think so. Average TV size: 40-50"? Average distance: 6 feet?
To be fair, recall how microscopic TVs used to be not so long ago.
Yeah but I’m not talking about not so long ago, I’m talking about now