Banding

[tp4tissue]

Streaming has made everything worse.

We made alot of headways and then streaming hit us.  and it all went down the tubes.  These youngsters don' know the first thing about Video Quality

People actually Praised the rick and morty blurays.  They are so bit-starved, Rick would be ashamed to be presented so haphazardly.

What the bluray peddles,  Notice the choppy aura around the planet, this is 24bit png, the banding is in the source.

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What it SHOULD look like with higher bitrate or w/ 10bit, (simulated)

[noisyturtle]

What always gets me is how standard def clips from the '90s pre-hd look worse when reuploaded digitally. Now younger people think that's how tv used to actually look, like someone smeared vasaline all over the screen and ran it through a vcr filter. Extremely poor representation of the crt and broadcast era.

and I agree that streaming quality is garbage and unconsciously makes people who don't know any better settle for fast loading poor quality content

[tp4tissue]

pre hd DID look blurry though, we didn't think so at the time.  They are EXTRA blurry now moved to streaming because of additional compression, and cheap hardware upscaler that has to run on integrated graphics and smart tv processors..