Technology

59472 readers

5173 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

654

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

95 comments fedilink hide all child comments

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ashe@lemmy.starless.one 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Its enough to stream 4k compressed

no it isn't.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

He means a 4k reel of just darkness. Could probably do it at a few hundred FPS and still have some bandwidth to spare.

[–] ramielrowe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll second this. 4k at 25 mbps might be OK for a sitcom or drama without much action or on-screen movement. But as soon as there's any action, it's gonna be a pixelated mess. 25 mbps is kinda the sweet spot for full fidelity 1080p, and I'd much rather watch that than "4K".

[–] Galluf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The benefit of the 4k is that you get HDR. On a good TV, that's far more noticable than the resolution improvement and certainly worth it.

But then you're looking at 60-100 Mbps bit rate for good quality (50-80 GB file size for most movies).