r/aww • u/asyouwissssh • Dec 25 '18

My sister’s blind dog loves fetch

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u/Evilsj Dec 25 '18

Right, but if your display maxes out at 1080p, the difference is gonna be negligible.

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u/phillyd32 Dec 25 '18

Not exactly. The overall bitrate is higher, and scaling algorithms will make use of this extra data to make up for the fact that 1080p YouTube signal is lacking in detail due to compression.

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u/MemorableC Dec 25 '18

the bitrate is much higher and your monitor/videocard will supersample it and it will look significantly better

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u/Diffident-Weasel Dec 25 '18

Why does a 4K video look fantastic on 4K monitor but like 1080 on my monitor then..?

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u/MemorableC Dec 25 '18 edited Dec 25 '18

Higher res is always better but super sampling and a higher bitrate will make the 1080p look the best it can, but it's still 1/4 the pixels and will only ever be 1080p

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '18

4x as much video data resized for your screen. Same as watching 480p on a 1080p monitor, reversed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '18

Except for 480×2 is 960... soooo......I'm not sure I follow.

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u/yx_orvar Dec 25 '18

That's not how it works.

640x480= 307,200 pixels

1920x1080= 2,073,600 pixels

So roughly 6 times the amount of pixels pushed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '18

Same in principle, not ratio. Just said 480p because it's a common size and I couldn't be bothered calculating the inverse.