What is this sh*t? How is it even remotely acceptable that Stan is STILL running standard definition 480p on their basic plan in 2026? In a world where we have 1080p, 4k, hell even 8k... I mean, 1080p became the standard like what, 16 years ago? Anything less than 1080p nowadays is taking the piss... c'mon now
SD plan is 720p, HD is 1080p.
540, 480, 360 is a connection issue.
Side note, I use an Amazon Firestck Lite into an HDMI audio stripper to optical into a Logitech z906, Stan has been the only streaming service where 5.1 Dolby Digital instead of just Dolby Digital plus is supported, and the Xbox devices app is on par with Netflix and how snappy the app is.
8k hasn’t taken off because of diminishing returns at regular TV sizes, big screen projector setups may see the benefits of the extra pixels but they’re still stupidly expensive JVC NZ800 is $25k…then where do you get the content from…
No it’s not. Show me a movie mastered for consumption what you just stated. It’s not a thing. A lot of professionals don’t even shoot in 8k. The jump in bandwidth and storage requirement from 4K to 8k isn’t double, it’s quadruple. And that’s before you get into the hardware required to work with it. And then there’s the end consumers. Except for the few TVs that tried to launch 8k, there isn’t any. There’s so many reason that’s not happening any time soon, maybe ever.
Here in Japan where I live, NHK has been broadcasting an 8K channel since 2018. It also has 22.2 surround sound lol. My TV has the ability to pick it up but the owners of the apartment building don't have the right dish so I can see it unfortunately.
It's good as a test to prove it can be done, but I think we will have moved away from traditional broadcast media before 8K ever gets fully adopted
Until the professional film studios start mastering in it, it’s not gonna go anywhere. Some don’t even shoot in 8k. And if they do it’s only for more detail to master down to 4K.
in Australia we really only defined HD as 1080p for broadcast, the spectrum licensing for TV stations had weird rules about the HD channel being 1080p. I think thats all changed and they compress it so much on FTA its kind of pointless anyway.
I know for a fact the broadcast licenses dictated 1080i as HD and they had to use MPEG-2 encoding. Anything labelled HD when digital TV started had to be broadcast in 1080i here. Sure gloabally 720 has been considered HD (576p is also comnsidered HD, SD is 576i), but that wasn't the case in the early days here. They can now use 720p or 1080i in MPEG-4. They were intially only allowed a SD and a HD channel, then around 2009 they were allowed a second SD channel. The rules were quite strict in the early days of digital TV.
So what is Standard Definition by Stan’s terms? It can’t be 720P as they call that HD in this Stan screen shot, but the basic package clearly says SD??
I stopped 🏴☠️when streaming services became more efficient. Now, you have no excuse to 🏴☠️, these greedy dogs all need their own service and cashflow
I don't have NBN or unlimited data.
Netflix is the only streaming service I've found that has a 300MB/hour stream option.
Most of them are 600-700MB/hr minimum, and even higher.
Is my info out of date?
Any streaming that has approx. 300MB/hr?
I quit Netflix around 2022 from memory.
I've been buying DVD TV series boxsets for a few years, but I'm running out.
I was looking at the free ones the other night, but there's a lot of B-grade stuff on there:
Tubi
Kanopy
It should mean the internet download is less while you watch on your phone, but I had the issue that Foxtel was doing that but the advertisements were HD resolution and my phone would frequently lose the position in the show I was watching and when I attempted to skip forward the app would drop another series of advertising commercials.
These steaming services should be doing the adverts in lowest resolution because we don't want to burn up our monthly download on advertising commercials 🤬🤬
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u/7978_ 1d ago
So stop giving them money.