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> blocky compression artifacts that show up at 720p It's just the shitty compression, not the mark of 720p. This is extremely evident on YouTube now, for a co
by justsomehnguy 3y ago
> blocky compression artifacts that show up at 720p
It's just the shitty compression, not the mark of 720p.
This is extremely evident on YouTube now, for a couple of years if the source content is 4K native, they downgrade it to 1080p (so you can stream it with a comfortable bitrate), but despite a good enough resolution (1080p! 2K!) and the need to just downgrade the resolution (yes, double re-encoding, but) the 2K version looks abysmal. Especially evident on live videos with a contrast lights.
- Jochim 3y agoYou're right that it's not a problem inherent to 720p itself. I was using it as a proxy since the issues weren't present in Netflix's 4k encoding and it's more familiar than other measures.