• Theo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I never noticed a quality difference on my phone due to the small screen, even 1080p to 720p wasn’t bad on my 4k TV. Also, when did they change the free trial from three months to one?

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      3 days ago

      when did they change the free trial from three months to one?

      When they decided FUCK YOU!!! PAY US MONEY FASTER!!!

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      3 days ago

      I don’t notice it on a 75" TV.

      But when 99% of the content on YouTube is struggling to just get focusing right, pursuing higher quality bitrates is a useless priority. It’s all trash amateur TV. Resolution is not a factor here.

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        3 days ago

        Isint higher bitrate better for busy scenes with lots of movement? Like games that have a lot going on or tall grass in the wind.

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          10 hours ago

          Depends. While compressing the video, it will create repetition,.artificial motion blur, etc. Either through software or directly on the device itself with its own software—GoPros are notoriously bad for this, for example.

          Then when uploading to YT, it has its.own compression—because billions of petabytes—which will introduce your classic.nearest neighbour type compression problems. Colour spots, blurring, flat contrasts,.etc. All in an effort to keep bitrate and thus the file size down.

          But as I said, it’s unusual to have content on YT of this quality where bitrate “ruins” the experience. There’s much worse problems at the forefront in amateur and/or.fast content video.