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Interesting. what sizes of computer monitors are you talking about ? Doesn't latency sensitive applications use short packets , so the difference in latency f

• nitrogen 16y ago
  I use a 28" monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200. I've watched the same video in 1080p and 720p, and the 1080p is appreciably sharper and more detailed, even accounting for the fact that the 720 version is being scaled to the display's native resolution. It is 2.25 times as many pixels, so there's over twice as much detail possible. It's kind of fun to read the signs and computer monitors in the background of scenes (for example, on a 1080p version of The Island, you can see a character's hilariously disturbing criminal record on a monitor in the background). As for latency sensitive applications, going from a 2mbit link to a 20mbit link reduces the round trip transmit time (excluding interpacket delays required by common physical links) of a 256-byte packet from ~2ms to ~0.2ms. If both endpoints migrate from 2mbit to 20mbit, then ~3.6ms of latency can be eliminated. The benefits are larger for larger packet sizes, so larger packets can be used (and therefore increased throughput) while maintaining low latency.