Yes, this is a very real problem. I’m working on a project that involves CGI animations, and we’ve had considerable debate about what resolution(s) to offer fo

Yes, this is a very real problem. I’m working on a project that involves CGI animations, and we’ve had considerable debate about what resolution(s) to offer for the video files. On a desktop or laptop, a size similar to YouTube works fine. On an iPad with a Retina display, the videos can sometimes appear to be of a lower quality than they really are, because we’ve got sharper icons and text nearby. Having said that, it’s not so much the video itself that can look awkward (since people are used to somewhat lossy video compression on the web anyway, and in motion you’re not really seeing the individual pixels) but rather the static poster image that displays until you start to play that video.