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Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.
Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.
I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)
If you don't use an "approved" browser Netflix reduces the stream to 320p. God awful service. Screw streaming.
I never choose higher bitrate releases. IDK why exactly. When you search for a movie and there's a half dozen releases, you choose the groups you know, and the number of seeders, and usually end up with a 2gb to 4gb release size. The bitrate doesn't really factor into my decision, partly I suppose because it's always "good enough", and partly because it's not a reliable indicator of image quality anyway.
Once I upgraded to a 4k tv I started pulling 4K HDR versions. It can be hard to know how good the quality will be between 5GB, 10GB, 25GB and 50GB movies, because there are many substandard releases out there. Especially true with older content.
Newer stuff can make a difference, but let’s be realistic. It costs nothing to just download a few versions and see. :)
That's kind of my point though.
I just don't care enough about the quality.
Same, I have a 55" OLED and I game in 1080p. 4K looks a bit crisper, but my video card doesn't like me when we do that.
People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it's even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate
I'd be surprised if the average person can differentiate 720p and 4k
I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.
But 720 feels like garbage to me.
Wasn't speaking about you.