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		hulitu on April 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube is giving Premium subscribers higher-quali... > According to YouTube, the new 1080p Premium option is “an enhanced bitrate version of 1080p” that’s supposed to make things look crisper, particularly with videos heavy on detail and motion. So they agree that 1080p and UHD are only names for whatever they want to give you. And how crisper is the new "enhanced bitrate version of 1080p" ?

lm28469 on April 13, 2023 [–]

> So they agree that 1080p and UHD are only names for whatever they want to give you.

Bitrate is everything, you can have 8k that look worse than DVD

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