YouTube TV, on the other hand, well, I need to cancel that.
I'm assuming this is mostly just because the ad revenue on youtube is pretty low
Yes, on desktop I can use an ad blocker but that doesn't solve the app or smart tv usage.
Yeah, reading this stuff would probably be better, and I do also read a lot. But sometimes I just want to sit back and relax while someone presents their information to me.
It also is not available for all videos. Nonetheless, I've a feeling I should not rob off the creators, a lot of whom I follow are awesome, of their sponsor earnings.
YouTube Premium is an easy fix, and with its subsidized pricing in India, it is a steal. The family plan is less than $2.5 monthly. Unfortunately, my wife would sometimes complain, “Why am I not seeing any ads? I have it how I like it.”
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" ?
Bitrate is everything, you can have 8k that look worse than DVD
One way to higher quality I found was you can represent more uncompressed data with the same number of compressed bits (so you end up with slightly less lossy compression). Another way was you can get higher subjective quality by picking the right bits to throw away (your compression is just as lossy but you’ve shifted where that loss happens into subjectively less important parts of the data). I think there might be some gotcha where these two things are actually identical in some deeper way, but it feels like they’re quite different.
The fact that they’re offering it to paying customers is hopefully the leverage needed by engineers to justify spending a bit more compute on better encoding settings.
(Another thought in this area is that since encoding is paid roughly once per video uploaded, you could have a “premium uploader” service that lets uploaders play around with some of the settings, or at least use a better quality preset. Many uploaders would pay ten bucks per video to do that, I have no doubt.)
