Why do videos from 10+ years ago have such potato quality these days when they looked fine back then?

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Unless I’m misremembering, but I feel like I didn’t struggle to make out details in some videos back then the way I do these days, because the quality seems so degraded.

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It’s a combination of having your expectations elevated by modern resolutions and the fact that screen sizes are generally just much bigger now.

You used to watch low resolution content on tiny screens and that was all you knew. Now you watch super high resolution content on very large, high resolution screens. The older content is no longer standing on its own, but being contrasted with these better images, especially when displayed on screens that play to the better quality content’s strength while highlighting the poor quality of the older content.

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