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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the best reason i can think of is that video looks best when it is the same or higher resolution than the screen you are watching it on. Lower res video looks better on a low res screen than it does on a higher resolution screen most of the time. (this depends on how the video is up-scaled) Also you were used to that video quality at that time, and now you are used to something higher resolution and the transition has been slow. As the years pass nothing changes much, and then you look back and see how far tech has come.

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