james_bond

So the conclusion is people are obsessed with only the resolution & they completely ignore the bitrate factor. People just buy devices like the Amazon Fire TV stick 4K & all they get is compressed sh**.

Yeah basically. Most people don't care and can't tell the difference anyway. If you are like me, you use streaming services when you have to, but everything I love I have on Bluray.

Because your monitor is 1366x768. 720p is 1280x720. It should give a small difference but definitely noticable. And like others say bitrate also changes for higher resolutions

i mean everything at this point is compressed lol

Bluray is also compressed. It's encoded with H.264. It's less compressed, but still compressed.

That's the bitrate. The same reason why a 4K YT video looks better than a 1080p one even on a 1080p monitor.

None. There are no uncompressed video streaming services.
 
You are seeing better quality with higher resolution versions, because the higher resolution versions are higher quality, mostly due to increased bit rate.

A bluray disk pretty much as good as it gets (still compressed). It's FAR too much data to do uncompressed streaming.
 
A lot of youtubers upload their 1080p footage encoded as 4k because the bitrate is higher then and you get a noticeably better image whist the resolution actually doesn't change in the footage.

its only uncompressedif its a blue ray. or if you downloaded it uncompressed

No don't think its placebo. I tested like 15-18 videos & got the same result.

No don't think its placebo. I tested like 15-18 videos & got the same result.

its not really 1080p because youtube decompresses the video quality. so even if you put 4k it would look way better than 720p on a 720p monitor

my bet would be bitrate or placebo.

The point of the massive tax is to push manufacturers to build phones in India, so it's unlikely to happen unless Apple opens a factory there.

Yeah, that's the caveat. They're not cheap to start with (the iPhone SE is as good as it gets), and India's politics have led to higher prices than you'd pay in, say, North America or Europe. If Apple could convince India to help lower prices, that'd be a good start.

Welcome to Android.
 
The situation is much better than it once was (Samsung provides up to four years of regular security updates for phones made in 2021 onward), but the truth is that Google, chip manufacturers and Android phone developers have both technical hurdles (the sheer variety of hardware and custom software) and, sometimes, a vested interest in cutting support short. And there's still a bad habit of "punishing" budget Android phone buyers with shorter or less frequent security update cycles.
 
If you want the best security update policy on the market, you have to get an iPhone. That's not hyperbole. Apple typically provides five or six years of OS updates after a model's first release (the iPhone 6s from 2015 can run the latest version of iOS), and you'll likely still get important security updates for a little while after that. Importantly, you don't have to wait for updates or watch your OEM skip them... if a security update is available, it's available immediately for all compatible iOS devices.

that is untrue 
my y5 2017 only received 1 year of update and i'm still using it till now
you can use your phone it just won't be updated and imo that's not huge a problem
and 3 years is the official update time there is always unofficial updates like lineage os   

in Europe my yt videos default to 1440p (if available)

Btw in Europe Netflix and some others reduced the video quality to prevent our infrastructure from being overloaded
also youtube always played the 720p versions by default and you had to manually select 1080p again and again ..


Was it just here or world wide? 

March-April 2020 I noticed some minor issues with increase in latency and jitter. Speeds were fine. Its been perfect since. Guess thats one good thing about living where a bunch of old people live.

It's probably Network Congestion. Towards the end of our service with our Cable Company we were fluctuating between about 60mbps to 300mbps on a 600mbps plan. Still perfectly usable however. A lot of these ISP Network's just are not designed to handle so much traffic at once.
We have however switched to fiber since then and stay pretty consistent with our 1gig plan.
 

I downgraded my plan to save money as my new customer discount ran out (had a 3 year deal).
 
Went down from 200 to 150, my ping went up from 8-16 🥺 when playing Rocket League.
 
I have not noticed the difference really, my work computer is bar far the biggest bottleneck for speed, second only to the servers of the service I am using.

Mine is fine. Thankfully infrastructure where I live was upgraded a year or 2 before the pandemic to I still get pretty consistent 1 gig down nearly 1 gig up. 

Well,The infrastructure in my country is one of the best in the world,COVID didn't change the experience,there is lots of bandwidth.
And i am connected directly to the ISP with an individual optic fiber line - which means that i don't share bandwidth with anyone.
I have 1000 up/1000 down.
Also my ISP is top notch,which is something i cannot say about most ISPs.

It hasn't. There's a fatcat mcCEO sitting on 100x bandwith trying to move all strata of customers into higher paying tiers by limiting the package. City's McMeisWow Politician probably making uneconomical for anyone to pass competing internet lines. that's my theory for any place in Canada.
 
Best marketing schemes I've ever seen. Decades' work. Brilliant what Videotron has been doing.