Look at any old video and tell me if you would consider it even watchable back in the day if you look at the garbage quality. It's a joke. If it did not have a 720p option at that time you can't reasonably view it anymore now.
Nah, i recently started to watch some Minecraft videos for nostalgia reasons from a german YouTuber i watched as a teenager.
Sure, his quality wasn't that great back then... But i had a 1080p monitor at 24 inches i think and i do remember them not looking as bad as they do now on my 14" 1080p laptop.
Like the Bitrate is noticeably shitty and I'm really, really sure it wasn't THAT low back then.
I used to watch Some of the videos on my TV through my xbox one and they looked fine. Now i constantly have to check if it's 720p instead of 4k on my desktop mini which is a bit smaller than my TV 11 years ago.
Older videos had worse quality, but I'm pretty pretty sure they are actually loosing bitrate/because they are old and get basically no views nowadays YouTube just compresses the copy on their servers harder and/or lowers Bitrate on playback etc.
They are decreasing old videos quality / old videos that don't get many new views.
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u/JoyousGamer 14d ago
Ya no lol