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.
@newt @matrix 12 Mbps of h.265 would probably look pretty good depending on encoding settings. However, if you get a scene with a lot of detail and movement like a fight scene in Godzilla vs. King Kong it wouldn't be enough for 4K and you'd lose a lot of detail and possibly even get some artifacting.
Digital cable TV is even worse. I swear their encoding settings are h.264 CBR 2500k with the ultrafast preset. It looks okayish for stuff like Law and Order but if you try to watch sports or an action movie there are artifacts all over the place. And this is just regular cable TV these days.
Normies just don't seem to notice tho.
Digital cable TV is even worse. I swear their encoding settings are h.264 CBR 2500k with the ultrafast preset. It looks okayish for stuff like Law and Order but if you try to watch sports or an action movie there are artifacts all over the place. And this is just regular cable TV these days.
Normies just don't seem to notice tho.
@sjw
The thing that absolutely killed it for me in this movie is some of the low light scenes. The transitions between grays combined with the noise looked just awful. Plus stuff like leaves or Kong's hair.
I have no clue how normies don't notice.
I was super excited when finally land TV got an upgrade, because with DVB-T we used like h263 6k 540p, text on the news was barely readable. Now it's h265 8k 1080p, but apparently nobody in my family noticed.
@newt
