• Hexagon@feddit.it
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    7 days ago

    That would be… (checks math)… about 5.972 Gbps of bandwidth, assuming just non-HDR content and 30 fps. Probably impossible for most people.

    Less compression could make sense, but literally no compression would be a colossal waste of bandwidth and storage.

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      7 days ago

      Maybe that’s the point I meant to make clearer. 8k, even compressed would take more bandwidth, or it’s going to be compressed so much that it totally defeats the purpose of 8k content.

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        7 days ago

        No, I wanted to make a different point: that uncompressed video would be unreasonably huge. Nobody uses it. Regardless of the resolution, a good compressed video looks basically the same but it is hundreds of times smaller.

        You should ask for less compressed video. Uncompressed is just not worth it.