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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by lfam on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:15PM (#42957744)
4K doesn't really say anything about image quality, just the resolution of the picture, which tells you the theoretical maximum level of visual detail.

Focusing on resolution is like asking "how strong is one meter of rope" without talking about the composition of the rope.

With streaming video, image quality ultimately comes down to the codec and the bitrate. They probably use a relatively low bitrate regardless of codec.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by iinnPP on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:33AM (#42963328)
Bitrate can be massive with a low quality video so that also doesn't tell you much.
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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by xp84 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:22PM (#42966620)
Bitrate, resolution, and codec are all of course critical, and not knowing all three makes it impossible to judge how good or bad it will look. Sadly the resolution is the only one of the three that's easy to describe to consumers, so here we are.
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