Though PH has done a pretty good job introducing the third "pro/am" quality tier that can be pretty good, I will still often take a 480p amateur video taken with a potato over the shiny, overproduced garbage.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Smartphones have done wonders for amateur production quality. Way less likely to run into out of focus shots with white balance that makes everything yellow.

[–] Zehzin 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Be thankful for what you have back in my day if we wanted to see boob we had to rewind a VHS of Robocop

[–] Agent641 10 points 8 months ago

If you wanted to see 3 boobs you had to rewind a copy of Total Recall

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The difference between 480p and 720p videos isn't that big. Yeah, 720p looks nice, but 480p doesn't look horrendous.

Source: All the YouTube videos I watch are in 480p, and have been doing so since before 720p stopped being considered HD for some reason. I live in the Third World and my Internet connection is 10 down/1 up.

[–] Gabu 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It actually is that big. It's so big, 480p uses a different encoding. Small text is unreadable in 480p, but only slightly blurry in 720p.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember the last time I had to read tiny text during a movie.

[–] Gabu 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You mentioned YouTube, which is 99% made of content other than movies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember the last time I read tiny text on YouTube either.

[–] Gabu 1 points 8 months ago

Good for you, I guess? I do it all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Friend, things used to be so much worse. And that was just how it was