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don't be so modest. 720p is an acceptable low bar

• ben_w 3y ago
  For me, 480p is not even modest, it's close to the height I get for a landscape video when holding my phone in portrait. I also don't usually need the extra pixels, as there is seldom important content in the fine details — a few years ago, when I was prepping to leave the UK but not everything lined up to the same dates, I was using PAYG mobile for home internet and therefore set the videos to 240p; the only reason that didn't really work was that not all videos had such low resolution, and when they didn't the site defaulted to 720p.
  • geraldhh 3y ago
    yea, 480p is ok for phones. 720p brings a noticeable improvement for watching on something 40"+ (tv). going further to 1080p is only a marginal improvement over 720p so i usually "keep it simple/small"