I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don’t notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don’t have a screen that can display 4K, I consider it to be one of the biggest disk space wasters.

Am I the only one who has this opinion?

  • Jako301@feddit.deEnglish
    40·
    4 months ago

    You don’t really prefer a lower resolution, you just work within the limitations you have.

    Also, I don’t notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p

    Either your display is really shitty or you need (better) glasses. This isn’t like the difference between 60 and 144hz where its barely visible for untrained eyes.

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.devEnglish
      20·
      4 months ago

      Completely true, but also compression can make anything bad. I’ve seen 480p better 1080p simply because the 480p was using more bitrate, where the 1080p is encoded without enough relatively speaking.