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danielv123 t1_it9r180 wrote

Reply to comment by Winjin in 8K Industry Faces Challenge with New EU Regulatory Ruling by SalmonellaTizz

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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