Comment by akiselev

5 years ago

Unfortunately Stadia is the only one that supports 4K (I'm a casual user of Nvidia's service since it was in beta)

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Agingcoder  5 years ago

Does 4k matter? The way you state it makes it sound like it's a major issue (disclaimer: I've never seen a 4k game)

This is an honest question, since I don't game much (witcher 3, death stranding and a few point and click) , and regular 1080 doesn't bother me, so I'm genuinely curious.

  • Duralias  5 years ago

    Would describe Stadia 4k to be inline with native 1080p, at least when playing stadia in a browser. Stadia 4k may look better using a chromecast ultra, but I haven't tried that.

    And It is weird how resolutions are the focus in streaming when the most important thing is bitrate, feel like we need some kind of standard, because bitrate means nothing to most people.

    • bscphil  5 years ago

      > It is weird how resolutions are the focus in streaming when the most important thing is bitrate

      Yep. I see a good example of this when I watch gameplay videos on Youtube in the highest available 1080p bitrate, and regularly see results that look far worse than playing the game in 720p, maybe even 480p. For example, it's obviously very common to pan the camera through a high-detail scene, which is trivial for a GPU to do, but incredibly information dense for a video encoder. So anything with a lot of detail blurs (in a very ugly way, not like motion blur) when there's movement.

      And Youtube has the advantage that the video has as much time to record as Youtube will allow it, it doesn't need to be done with low-latency settings as Stadia does.

      Of course, cable TV is even worse, but ordinary consumers don't seem to have noticed or cared about that either.

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    • Ruthalas  5 years ago

      At least with game streaming services, I suspect advertising resolution serves the double purpose of being understandable to most consumers, while specifically obfuscating bitrate, which is the sacrificed statistic.

  • int_19h  5 years ago

    It depends on the game. Anything that has a lot of text or small icons - e.g. many strategies - benefits from high DPI in the same way desktop apps do.