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Everywhere online now, every movie, every home video, has been passed through so many filters that people don't look human any more. Nobody has any lines in their face, their teeth are florescent white, their eyes are filled in and have no veins. Nobody ever looks tired, or natural. Add to the mix the fact that everyone is getting lip implants to look like a blowfish, and I'm just tired of it. I miss seeing real human beings.

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

they have to look for ways to get 4k out the door and to the normal consumer who might only have 100mb internet

They do this like YouTube does by scaling the resolution based on your connection speed.

Though they do compress all resolutions to a fraction of their full bitrate regardless of the service or speed because ISPs are greedy fucks.

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I'm mean, they are both methods to do the same thing (get smaller sized videos) and it doesn't have to be one of the other, both can be used. With better compression you can stream higher resolution.