Stefan Ihringer

Ignore the video's clickbait title. It's a nice story about the resolution of film before and after the advent of "Digital Intermediate" (I didn't know that editing in Avid was originally in something like 320x200 pixels or that Oh Brother Where Art Thou" was the first production to scan a whole movie at high resolution for digital color grading).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN0H_WfWOp4

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The Biggest Mistake in the History of Hollywood

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Feb 21 at 10:46pmWeb
Show threadJavier Gallén Feb 22
@compfu The conclusions are right, but there’s a benefit to choose the 4K streaming tier even when gives almost no extra resolution: 4K usually comes with higher bitrate than the 1080p stream and in some cases, better codec and color deep so in the end you get better overall quality. I still prefer Blu-ray, but it looks a bit better than regular streaming.
Show threadStefan IhringerFeb 22
@ideimos A better codec would definitely be a benefit. But wouldn't the higher bitrate get eaten up by the 4-times increase in pixel data that needs to be transferred?
Show threadJavier Gallén Feb 22

@compfu The thing is that 4x resolution doesn’t need 4x bitrate. Example: 40mbps is overkill for 1080p while you“only” need 60mbps to achieve the same perceptual quality on 4K. With the same codec.

But the common thing is to use h264 for 1080p and h265/hevc/av1 for 4K which lessens even more the need of more bitrate.

But don’t get me wrong. With all that said, Braking Bad on 1080p Blu-ray still looks way better than Netflix 4K streaming because Netflix is always working with the minimum bitrate possible which is good enough for most of the people.

I made a video about this nerd stuff with comparisons (spanish tho) https://youtu.be/U7DG2I3uVCk?si=SQgNh3_XxS_omcqA

Esto tenéis que saberlo: Amazon Prime Video, tenemos que hablar

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Show threadStefan IhringerFeb 22

@ideimos Thanks! It was really cool to see the direct comparison between the different streaming services! Liked your effect at the beginning where you ramped up the compression of your own very well-produced video :-)

If I may ask, since I don't speak Spanish, what was the thing with Amazon Prime regarding 24fps and 60fps about?

Show threadJavier Gallén Feb 22
@compfu Thanks! It happens that when Prime puts an ad before the show, and this ad is not at 24p, it plays the show at the Hz of the ad without switching to 24p, resulting in judder. The only fix to this is to manually force 24p on the streaming device (like Apple TV or Nvidia Shield).