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Re:3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai sa... by cm2187 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:37AM (#25859221)
I am all for high bandwidth, but it blows my mind that people have the expectation to do video conferencing at 1080p quality. It is bluray quality, which was only available 10years ago in offline / disk format. It is great if we can but I wouldn't call it a requirement.
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Re:3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai sa... by ubercow13 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:42AM (#25859284)
It's not really blu-ray quality though. You could have a 4K video conference at 1Mbps if you so wished, but it wouldn't look nice. Likewise a 1080p Zoom stream isn't really anything like a blu-ray video.
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Re:3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai sa... by cm2187 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:45AM (#25859321)
The quality may not be there but the pixel count is. I agree most webcams are not precise enough to give a real 1080p quality + bandwidth constraints. But you would be better off with a fluid 720p.
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