Why are all YouTube videos from DVDs uploaded in the 2000s atrocious in quality, but if I rip the same video from the same DVD today, it’s much cleaner?
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People didn’t have fast broadbands nor huge HDDs to store them.
In 2000 it took whole night or more to download a 700MB movie and an entire CD disk to record it on. People ripping them set the resolution and compression loss to optimize file size, not quality.
YouTube’s servers probably have moved em around a lot over the years and compress them to save space
YouTube didn’t support higher qualities in the beginning.
Internet was much slower, so uploading higher quality would’ve taken more time than people were willing to put up with.
limited internet bandwidth. it took more time to download it than the total lenght of the movie, so you would get a lot of buffering trying to see it in real time. quality was compromised in order to reduce its size.
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