Vimeo going 4K

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DLD

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Vimeo is introducing (OK, catching up with YouTube) 4K streaming for everybody. They say it will take them several months for a full roll-out. Some areas - I assume the US - will get it sooner than later.

To upload 4K, you'd still need a pro account.
 
Vimeo is about 500 (1/2 a k) right now with compression. 4k is beyond widely available bandwidths right now. Seems pointless
 
morgan_moore said:
Vimeo is about 500 (1/2 a k) right now with compression. 4k is beyond widely available bandwidths right now. Seems pointless
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Do you mean you can't watch Vimeo at a speed exceeding 500K?

How would this compare with YouTube, as an example, where you are?

I know people can rarely get over Full HD from Netflix but that's a problem pertaining to the internet traffic in the US (net neutrality and so on). My YouTube generally works up to the promised speeds of my broadband provider (provided it's streaming off a US based server and not during the prime time hours).
 
DLD said:
Do you mean you can't watch Vimeo at a speed exceeding 500K?
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I think he feels the effective resolution is 0.5K due to compression artifacts, even for HD material. Or something like that.

Anyway, what does it matter—and I'm not referring to anyone special here—when people upload yellow/green/pasty/non-delogged footage? Poor resolution is a mercy killing.
 
AndreeOnline said:
... Anyway, what does it matter—and I'm not referring to anyone special here—when people upload yellow/green/pasty/non-delogged footage? Poor resolution is a mercy killing.
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You left off those orange-teal LUTs... but they're all the rage these days.

Oh and I assume we have all seen the early You Tube era, where 240p was horribly pixelated. It isn't that way anymore. And, soon the early adapters will be able to compare the streaming 4K with the Blu-Ray 4K. Then, some sort of standard measurement can be achieved. It isn't comparing Vimeo with one's final render.
 
AndreeOnline said:
I think he feels the effective resolution is 0.5K due to compression artifacts, even for HD material. Or something like that.
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Indeed.

8k does have a place though. Physical advertising.

Airports, malls, etc where image are across multiple screens (maybe the length of an entire walkway) and may be viewed from far or close.

Perfume or car adverts basically.

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morgan_moore said:
8k does have a place though. Physical advertising.

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LG has made a display consisting of 140 55" OLED panels for the main airport over there (Seoul or Inchon?).

In any case, compression is what it is but, with each step, YouTube has delivered a better picture. Now, it has 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p and 2160p (on videos uploaded in 4K, the "low end" is 360p usually). On my older monitor, I can spot a clear difference with each step up to 1440p. After that, the difference is minute. But the top two tiers represent a marked improvement from Vimeo.
 
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