Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by 7734128 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:47PM
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That's similar to saying that a 20 megapixel front facing camera of a cheap chinese phone is superior to a 12 megapixel DLSR.
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by CharlesW on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @04:39PM
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You're right that vertical resolution is just one factor, but streaming uses radically more efficient codecs than DVD, so at typical broadband speeds, streaming 480P on YouTube will look far better than DVD did.
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by 7jjjjjjj on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:32PM
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That's not even close to true, WTF. YouTube 480p has criminally low bitrate, even the crappiest DVDs have better quality.
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by CharlesW on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:35PM
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I encourage you to try it. Because I wasn't sure, I already had (using the new 28 Years Later trailer) before I posted. You can use yt-dlp to see that the 480P YouTube version is AV1 at 572 Kbps, which is notably better than a DVD Video-compliant MPEG-2 encode from the highest quality source available.
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by codedokode on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:51AM
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Wikipedia say that "Typically, the data rate for DVD movies ranges from 3 to 9.5 Mbit/s" [1] which is much more than 572 Kbit/s. The Youtube quality issues are easy to spot on highly dynamic clips (with fireworks, flashing lights etc).