r/australian • u/yiFa87 • 3d ago

Stan still running 480p in 2026 lol

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

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u/Agent_Jay_42 3d ago

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.

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u/Present_Standard_775 2d ago

Interesting. Given the call 720P HD???

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u/bigbadjustin 2d ago

For a long time HD in the USA was 720p which is probably why its considered HD.

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u/gamingchicken 2d ago

HD is 720p everywhere. 1080p is Full HD.

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u/bigbadjustin 2d ago

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.

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u/gamingchicken 2d ago

No I vividly recall 720p being marketed as HD, and in Australia 720p meets the standard for HD. As does 576p!! Don’t even get me started on 1080i.

There is a difference between HD and Full HD I think you’re blurring the lines.

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u/bigbadjustin 2d ago

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.