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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by justsomehnguy on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:41AM (#39259616)
> blocky compression artifacts that show up at 720p

It's just the shitty compression, not the mark of 720p.

This is extremely evident on YouTube now, for a couple of years if the source content is 4K native, they downgrade it to 1080p (so you can stream it with a comfortable bitrate), but despite a good enough resolution (1080p! 2K!) and the need to just downgrade the resolution (yes, double re-encoding, but) the 2K version looks abysmal. Especially evident on live videos with a contrast lights.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Jochim on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:55PM (#39306772)
You're right that it's not a problem inherent to 720p itself. I was using it as a proxy since the issues weren't present in Netflix's 4k encoding and it's more familiar than other measures.
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