I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don’t notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don’t have a screen that can display 4K, I consider it to be one of the biggest disk space wasters.

Am I the only one who has this opinion?

  • Lettuce eat lettuceEnglish
    18•5 months ago

    Here’s my twisted life exposed…I have no issue watching 1080p on my QLED 4K TV. I game at 1080p happily, I honestly don’t give a shit about 4K content.

    1080p looks good enough for me, and I actually watch 720p on my phone screen half the time too.

    And not because of lack of speed, I have a 1Gbps+ fiber line up and down.

    And tbh, if it means I get to own and control my media, I would tolerate even worse quality if that’s what I needed to do.

    Grunge computing ftw! Quality at the cost of your soul? Fuck that!

    • HowdyEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      Pretty much the same here. the storage to quality ratio isn’t a big enough difference to make it worth it to me for anything over 1080. 720p is noticable but I’ll still use it no problem.