Comment by seydor

7 months ago

All this high speed fiber for nothing...

it's almost like a majority of the world is still consuming data and video on mobile networks.

Saturation is only a goal if it's a bottleneck. It's good to remove bottlenecks.

well we might start streaming 8K content ! Or maybe this could be used for 16K VR videos

  • It's a shame European energy efficiency rules made 8K non viable. It's a great resolution.

    • Framerate and hdr are more important.

      I don’t understand why 60fps never became ubiquitous, a pan scene in 30fps is horrible, its almost stroboscopic to me.

    • Meh, I'll take 1080p at a higher bitrate and in a wider color gamut over the pixel soup many VOD services serve and have the audacity to still call "UHD" any day.

Concurrent maximum efficiency + maximum availability is the way to go. This principle also applies to compute power and energy markets.