shouldn’t 1080p and 4k have no difference if my monitor is only capable of displaying 1080p
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Compressed video can be scaled to whatever size screen, doesn’t have much to do with how good the video actually looks. Quality of video has everything to do with bitrate, how much data there actually is, almost no video comes in completely raw quality. 1080p at 60fps would be 3GB/s raw, that’s a bit much to stream from youtube. But not all data is of equal importance, you can throw away a lot of high frequency information without you noticing much difference so that’s what compression does, how much video is compressed ultimately determines how good the video looks. 4k or 1080p has less to do with resolution and more to do with how much information is thrown away, 4k just plain has more data in it.
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