But in this example they didn’t add a higher quality.
They added a new lower quality and took away what you already had/were paying for. Hence, you as a consumer are paying for the same level of service, but are receiving less
That’s the textbook definition - what am I missing?
You can check by looking up old but rates and using a downloader tool and checking file sizes. Apparently there is about 15% more data. Please note that compression may have changed/improved and objectively comparing products of lossy compression is non-trivial.
Huh? Where did you find out that they took anything away? Are you just assuming? I thought they added 1080p with a bitrate that’s higher than standard, because people were just watching 4k on 1080p screens because the higher bitrate made it look better.
But in this example they didn’t add a higher quality.
They added a new lower quality and took away what you already had/were paying for. Hence, you as a consumer are paying for the same level of service, but are receiving less
That’s the textbook definition - what am I missing?
That’s false. They didn’t touch old content on high Bitrate introduction. E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/157ksuu/is_youtube_actually_serving_at_an_enhanced/ discusses this.
You can check by looking up old but rates and using a downloader tool and checking file sizes. Apparently there is about 15% more data. Please note that compression may have changed/improved and objectively comparing products of lossy compression is non-trivial.
A 3-year old reddit thread? I think we’re done here, this isn’t a serious discussion any longer
Huh? Where did you find out that they took anything away? Are you just assuming? I thought they added 1080p with a bitrate that’s higher than standard, because people were just watching 4k on 1080p screens because the higher bitrate made it look better.