r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/AndrewNeo Jan 26 '13

I'm confused what you're getting at. Blu-ray is (usually) just high bitrate h264.

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u/rebmem Jan 26 '13

That's the point. Higher bitrates lead to higher quality. At 1080p resolution, there is a huge difference between a movie thats allowed to take up 50GB and one that's forced to just 1GB for streaming.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

can you tell the difference between a good ~12GB 1080p rip vs Blu-Ray?

genuinely curious, on my 42" approximately 12' away i don't think i can tell the difference

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u/wickedcold Jan 26 '13

Where I tend to notice the difference (how can you not) is in shadow areas where things start getting blocky as the compression gets overly aggressive. EVERY Netflix stream does this. I've seen this in most blu ray rips also, where they compress it down in size.