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The other trend I notice is not caring much at all about video quality. If there’s social interaction, young people I know are happy with a low bitrate 720p str

The other trend I notice is not caring much at all about video quality. If there’s social interaction, young people I know are happy with a low bitrate 720p streamed over discord in a small window. Maybe this is an artifact of videos on phones?

Bakary 4y ago
This trend is as old as filesharing, probably much older
- Macha 4y ago
  Yep, the 12-14" CRT was a fixture in basically every kids bedroom in my childhood and a decade later it was flip top portable dvd players with built in screen. Absolutely garbage picture quality even by the standards of the day, pretty popular because it gave them control and could be shared with friends
  - antiterra 4y ago
    I have never seen someone of big-screen means choose to watch a flip top dvd player outside of a portable environment or the kitchen or something. There are people with 4k TVs viewable from their desk who primarily watch movies in a small Discord window because of the social element.
- antiterra 4y ago
  There have always been people who don’t care, I’m saying that the demographic corresponding with tech enthusiasts who were excited about DTS, THX, 4k, Blu-Ray, or complained about 240p video on YouTube seem to care much less now.
  - Bakary 4y ago
    The market is a bit more streamlined now, so once you check the 4K OLED smart TV surround speaker box there's less to discuss about hardware. With the rise of streaming, the decision is binary: use it or don't. And if you do use it your choice is more limited when it comes to discussing video quality itself. Tech enthusiasts focused on quality will be found discussing encoding methods on private torrenting groups or emerging tech like e-ink. And the "audiophile" crowd is as vibrant as ever.
egypturnash 4y ago
This is not new. People were absolutely delighted to watch smeary third-generation VHS dubs of Japanese cartoons back in the eighties.
- antiterra 4y ago
  I was one of them which is maybe why I want to be as far from the low vertical resolution smeary VHS world as possible when it comes to film/Tv. Of course, the frustrating limitations of the past become the faux-nostalgic aesthetic of the future (there’s like a Gibson quote for this I think?) I’m all for fake tracking artifacts in a music video.
  - egypturnash 4y ago
    “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” ― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

Bakary 4y ago

This trend is as old as filesharing, probably much older

Macha 4y ago
Yep, the 12-14" CRT was a fixture in basically every kids bedroom in my childhood and a decade later it was flip top portable dvd players with built in screen. Absolutely garbage picture quality even by the standards of the day, pretty popular because it gave them control and could be shared with friends
- antiterra 4y ago
  I have never seen someone of big-screen means choose to watch a flip top dvd player outside of a portable environment or the kitchen or something. There are people with 4k TVs viewable from their desk who primarily watch movies in a small Discord window because of the social element.
antiterra 4y ago
There have always been people who don’t care, I’m saying that the demographic corresponding with tech enthusiasts who were excited about DTS, THX, 4k, Blu-Ray, or complained about 240p video on YouTube seem to care much less now.
- Bakary 4y ago
  The market is a bit more streamlined now, so once you check the 4K OLED smart TV surround speaker box there's less to discuss about hardware. With the rise of streaming, the decision is binary: use it or don't. And if you do use it your choice is more limited when it comes to discussing video quality itself. Tech enthusiasts focused on quality will be found discussing encoding methods on private torrenting groups or emerging tech like e-ink. And the "audiophile" crowd is as vibrant as ever.

egypturnash 4y ago

This is not new. People were absolutely delighted to watch smeary third-generation VHS dubs of Japanese cartoons back in the eighties.

antiterra 4y ago
I was one of them which is maybe why I want to be as far from the low vertical resolution smeary VHS world as possible when it comes to film/Tv. Of course, the frustrating limitations of the past become the faux-nostalgic aesthetic of the future (there’s like a Gibson quote for this I think?) I’m all for fake tracking artifacts in a music video.
- egypturnash 4y ago
  “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” ― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices