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Winjin t1_it9661u wrote

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Yeah not too mention that most people (like 90%?) are probably watching compressed videos that are barely real full HD.

Like I remember thinking whether I need 4K to watch movies... And then I reminded myself that I have dirt cheap wifi and watch everything in compressed 720p.

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danielv123 t1_it9r180 wrote

YouTube has done the testing and it turns out most people are fine with 360p somehow.

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ThePu55yDestr0yr t1_ita2bkk wrote

Tbf majority demographics of YouTube are like:

  1. Half probably bot net inflating viewers, astro turfing or annoying content creators

  2. children who don’t care for HD cus they don’t know how to press buttons on their iPhone or TV, or mindlessly auto-playing watching kid shows or some dumb content creators

  3. Everyone else, fifth or quarter of “everyone else” are probably vision impaired or old people where hd may not matter.

Also music vid viewers who don’t give a shit about video quality replaying over and over.

HD demographics are gonna be the minority when, need good internet (or patience), and don’t fall into above categories.

Personally I prefer HD vids but no way I can tolerate video buffering and shit ads on trash connection

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TheThiefMaster t1_itb14g7 wrote

If you have a phone in portrait mode you probably don't have many more pixels than that for a video.

I've done it a few times scrolling comments while the video played.

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TheBigFeIIa t1_it9vf3l wrote

Hardly surprising given decades of fuzzy analog TV

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mileswilliams t1_it9qt7y wrote

First thing I ever watched in HD was South Park.

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Knuddelbearli t1_itb8i6e wrote

Yes, anime/animation and porn is where I'm most likely to notice a difference on my TV. But still, FHD ( on 42 inches, with 65+ then eventually 4k) is actually enough for me, I prefer better colours / black levels.

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