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stonedemoman@lemmy.world 8 months agoThat is misinformation. The quality disparity you’re both pointing out is from streaming services compressing their media to much lower bitrates to ease bandwidth stress on their servers/clients and has nothing to do with a physical or digital medium.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lower bitrate == lower quality when using the same compression algorithms.
most streaming services are using h.265, same as 4k blu ray, but at substantially lower bitrates
stonedemoman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Doubling down on the misinformation, I see. H.265 is a high-efficiency codec, or in other words a better compression standard. Not a static compression level. This is why when you convert media there’s an input for quality, even when using HEVC. And you can absolutely stream the same Dolby Vision profile as a Blu-ray with single track double layer.
You’re still conflating digital medium with streaming services.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i am more than well aware of all of this. nothing i said is misinformation. same algorithm, different settings. the primary means by which you reduce bitrate with h.265 is by reducing the quality setting. there is no magical way to cut your bitrate by 75% using the same compression algorithm without sacrificing quality.
stonedemoman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Literally everything you said previously is misinformation except for Blu-ray being encoded with h.265, and I’ve already explained why.
So I guess you need another 20 years, sorry.
What does that have to do with digital media?
This is also demonstrably untrue if you take 5 seconds to research self-hosted streaming services.
Plex on Nvidia Shield. EZPZ.
I never said anything in contradiction to this. I don’t know who you’re shadow-boxing.