• MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I don’t want 8K. I want my current 4K streaming to have less pixilation. I want my sound to be less compressed. Make them closer to Ultra BluRay disc quality before forcing 8K down our throats… unless doing that gives us better 4K overall.

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      Yeah 4K means jack if it’s compressed to hell, if you end up with pixels being repeated 4x to save on storage and bandwidth, you’ve effectively just recreated 1080p without upscaling.

      Just like internet. I’d rather have guaranteed latency than 5Gbps.

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      5 days ago

      Yep, just imagine how bad the compression artefacts will be if they double the resolution but keep storage/network costs the same.

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        Increasing resolution but keeping the same bitrate still improves the image quality, unless the bitrate was extremely low in the first place. Especially with modern codecs

        20mbps 4k looks a lot better than 20mbps 1080p with AV1

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      Bingo, if I were still collecting DVDs/HD DVDs like I was in the 90’s, it might be an issue. Streaming services and other online media routed through the TV can hardly buffer to keep up with play speed at 720, so what the fuck would I want with a TV that can show a higher quality of picture which it can also not display without stutter-buffering the whole of a 1:30:00 movie?

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        Streaming services and other online media routed through the TV can hardly buffer to keep up with play speed at 720

        This is a problem with your internet/network, not the TV.