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Originally Posted by thebes
I'm not too surprised that so many are still at 1024. That was a standard for years and some people aren't so techy, so they keep their antiquated equipment well past its reasonable service life. Also some new umpc's and such are at 800 or 1024 wide- those at 800 will be used to scrolling sideways.
What does surprise me is that only 2.5% have a resolution as high as I do (and on a laptop!). I knew it was small and always preview my important work on a second screen... But still, with HD coming on strong I'm surprised that one is so low. I suppose there is no point in offering 1080p for a few more years and can see why most HD in adult is at 720p.
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In terms of HD videos on paysites, aside from the fact that very few people are actually on screen resolutions higher than 1680x1050, I also think any additions to file sizes are much better spent on higher bitrates for 720p videos, rather than trying to aim for 1080p videos at similar or only slightly higher bitrates (although admittedly the very few 1080p sites I've seen so far did go quite a step further with 8000 kbit vs. the 4-5000 kbit that is typically used for 720p videos).
While they've got the resolution requirements right with either format, the actual quality of downloadable HD porn videos still falls far short of Blu-ray movies or broadcast HD - even taking into account the no doubt obvious differences in camera and production equipment.
Viewed on particularly a large screen (like a HDTV rather than a typical 19-22" monitor), those "low" 4000 kbit bitrates still give you minor (or sometimes not so minor) pixelation, artifacts and other image quality issues that proper hi-def is supposed to eradicate entirely (and usually manages to do with flying colors in Blu-ray movies - assuming good transfers - and even lower bitrate broadcast HD).
When they double that 4000 kbit bitrate things do start to get much better though, but there's still quite some way to go up to 40,000 kbit that Blu-ray movies typically top out at with their variable bitrate
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Damn those Internet bandwidth limitations
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