YouTube no longer considers 720p as high-definition...

[curl-6]

Mr Puggsly said:

curl-6 said:

Due to compression, 720p on youtube looks like about 540p in a video game.

And hell, I'm still able to play Wii games in 480p and enjoy them, so 720p is a walk in the park by comparison.

720p is more than triple the pixel count of 480p. Even to the average person that transition was obvious. And again, that's the point. 720p was lumped in with the transition to HD TVs which was a massive leap over 480p in picture quality.

The 720p YouTube does looks bad on a large screen. That's why they removed it from their HD filter. On my phone though, the disparity between 720p and 1080p is less significant.

I'm aware.

Anyway, I play at 720p and even sub-HD a lot of the time, so I'm not a stickler for high pixel counts.