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While the sentiment in this comment is generally correct, I don't think this extends to 360p (or even 480p). Most people will generally tolerate much lower qual

While the sentiment in this comment is generally correct, I don't think this extends to 360p (or even 480p). Most people will generally tolerate much lower quality than the current state of the art at any given time, but there's still a kind of "overton window" of acceptability where the floor of what's acceptable raises with time too. I'd be fairly sure 360p is well below it today.

giantrobot 3y ago
But streams don't drop from 4K down to 360p. That's YouTube's low end. Most streaming services bottom out at 540p (quarter of full HD) or 720p. Keep in mind a lot of over the air and cable broadcasts are still 720p, so streaming low end looks as good/bad as over the air TV.