Free HGO Go I got from T-Mobile got switched to HBO Max. I'm watching Godzilla vs. Kong on it and I'm not sure if I even want to, because it just doesn't look good. It says it's 4k but I feel like even a 4k YT video looks better.
@matrix resolution doesn’t mean much. Look at the bitrate. Many streaming services overcompress video to fit higher resolution into lower bandwidth. If your “4k” is under 12megabits/s, it’s probably not worth watching.
@matrix that is if it’s a movie. Relatively simple cartoons like South Park can be compressed very well. Anyway, my rule of thumb is 4 megabits for 1080p, 12 megabits for 4k, assuming h264 codec. Slash that by 1.5x for h265, probably. We targeted these numbers for good quality when I worked for a streaming company.
