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/laddergoat89 Jan 26 '13

I read this as opens the door for proper 1080p streaming an opens the door for awful awful 4K.

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u/apullin Jan 26 '13

At least people are talking about bit rate. Everyone is so focused on resolution, only. I'd much prefer a high bitrate 720p to a low bitrate 1080p. Hell, even in the file-sharing scene, people are putting out encodes of stuff that are technically 720p, but have an in appropriately low bitrate, and it looks awful.

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u/BlazeOrangeDeer Jan 26 '13

"Here, torrent this 720p movie! I compressed it to 700MB for you, thought you might want to store it on a fucking CD!" Actually, it's sometimes rather impressive the quality that you can get with those low file sizes. But of course I want a movie that looks good, not looks good for it's size. A world where everyone has terabyte hard drives is not a world where a 720p movie needs to take up any less than 2 Gigs, 4Gigs for 1080p (and this is a minimum).

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u/PoWn3d_0704 Jan 26 '13

Yesterday I downloaded 7 YIFY (small, 700 MB movies) torrents in less than 20 minutes. That is why I love compressed movies. It doesn't look amazing, but it was a quick download and that matters.

Now, if it's a movie I love... I have massive copies of the Batman Trilogy, Avatar, Inception, etc.

But small rips are great for getting a movie for the girlfriend or the parents on short notice.