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Yes, so am I.
> therefore that 1080p is usually better than just "minimally acceptable", since most of the time we don't even get the full benefit of it.
If most of your users would be limited by 720p, and 1080p is standard and easy to do, then I'm comfortable calling 1080p the minimum.
> I'm suffering even imagining trying to watch a video this way.
The official "Retina" numbers have a phone 10 inches from your face. And that's about where I hold it when I have my glasses on.
> 20/20 visual acuity can resolve roughly 1 arc minute, or pi/10800 radians.
That's a good baseline number, but a lot of people can beat it by a significant fraction.
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Yes, so am I.
> therefore that 1080p is usually better than just "minimally acceptable", since most of the time we don't even get the full benefit of it.
If most of your users would be limited by 720p, and 1080p is standard and easy to do, then I'm comfortable calling 1080p the minimum.
> I'm suffering even imagining trying to watch a video this way.
The official "Retina" numbers have a phone 10 inches from your face. And that's about where I hold it when I have my glasses on.
> 20/20 visual acuity can resolve roughly 1 arc minute, or pi/10800 radians.
That's a good baseline number, but a lot of people can beat it by a significant fraction.